Small Things / Male stvari by Zvonimir Jurić will have its world premiere in the Croatian Films programme, while most of the other films selected for the main programme will have their Croatian premieres at the festival.
The slogan of this edition is “The Universe within Us”.
The Public Institution Pula Film Festival has a new director, Vlatka Kolarović. Danijel Pek and Mario Kozina are keeping the positions of artistic director and the festival’s curator, respectively.
More than 600 guests are expected at the festival, as well as over 1,400 accredited participants, including for the PulaPro industry segment.
Croatian Films in the Main Programme:
The Crystal Planet / Kristalni planet (Croatia, Czech Republic, Slovakia)
Directed by Arsen Anton Ostojić
Produced by Filmosaurus Rex Ltd., Alkay Animation Prague s.r.o.
Coproduced by BFilm s.r.o.
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Czech Audiovisual Fund, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, Eurimages, Creative Europe MEDIA, the Croatian Radio Television, the Czech Television, Next Generation EU/Creative Vouchers MKČR, in partnership with Sola Media, GmbH
Small Things / Male stvari (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia)
Directed by Zvonimir Jurić
Produced by Kinorama
Coproduced by Forum Ljubljana, Atalanta
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Slovenian Film Centre, Film Center Serbia, Viba Film, Creative Europe MEDIA, HRT
Petty Thieves / Sitni lopovi (Croatia, Germany, France)
Directed by Mate Ugrin
Produced by Kadromat
Coproduced by In the Cut, Fünferfilm, Nanslafu films
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, CNC – Aide aux cinémas du monde, Région Nouvelle-Aquitaine, ARTE/Cofinova, MOIN Filmförderung Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein, Creative Europe MEDIA
God Will Not Help / Bog neće pomoći (Croatia, Italy, Romania, Greece, France, Slovenia)
Directed by Hana Jušić
Produced by Kinorama
Coproduced by Nightswim, microFILM, Horsefly Films, Maneki Films, Perfo Production, ERT S.A.
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Eurimages, the Italian Ministry of Culture (MIC), the Romanian Film Centre, the Hellenic Film & Audiovisual Center – Creative Greece | Co- Production Window, European Union – NextGenerationEU, Aide aux Cinémas du Monde – Centre National du Cinéma et de l’Image Animée – Institut Français, the Slovenian Film Centre, Viba Film, ERT S.A., HRT, Re-Act
The Second Diary of Paulina P. / Drugi dnevnik Pauline P. (Croatia, Slovenia, Serbia)
Directed by Neven Hitrec
Produced by Jaka produkcija
Coproduced by Invida, Living Pictures, Baboon Production
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Slovenian Film Centre, Film Center Serbia
Extraordinary / Glavonja (Croatia, Slovakia, Slovenia, Latvia, Serbia)
Directed by Marina Andree Škop, Vanda Raýmanová
Produced by PomPom Film, Objectif
Coproduced by Senca Studio, Air Productions, This and That Productions, 247HUB, Spotlight Production, Slovak Television and Radio, Radiotelevizija Slovenija
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Slovak Audiovisual Fund, the National Film Centre of Latvia, the Slovenian Film Centre, the Croatian Radiotelevision, Creative Europe MEDIA, Viba Film Studio, and others
Honey Bunny / Koke (Croatia, Serbia)
Directed by Igor Jelinović
Produced by Eclectica
Coproduced by Baš Čelik
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Film Center Serbia, Creative Europe MEDIA
Beautiful Evening, Beautiful Day / Lijep avečer, lijep dan (Croatia, Canada, Poland, Cyprus, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Ivona Juka
Produced by 4film
Coproduced by Quiet Revolution, ORKA, Caretta Films, DEPO Production
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe MEDIA, the Adris Foundation, Telefilm Canada, the Ontario Creates programme, the Cyprus Ministry of Education, Culture, Sport and Youth through its Cinema Advisory Committee, Sarajevo and Tuzla Canton Film Funds
The Thing to Be Done / Ono što treba činiti (Croatia), Documentary
Directed by Srđan Kovačević
The Wedding / Svadba (Croatia, Serbia)
Directed by Igor Šeregi
Produced by Eclectica
Coproduced by Viktorija film
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre (HAVC), Creative Europe MEDIA, HRT
Women, Loonies and a Few Good Gays / Žene, luđaci i malo dobrih pedera (Croatia)
Directed by Ivan Salaj
Produced by Plavi mjesec
Supported by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre
Croatian Minority Coproductions in the Main Programme:
Whites Wash at Ninety / Belo se pere na devetdeset (Slovenia, Croatia, Italia, Serbia, North Macedonia, Montenegro)
Directed by Marko Naberšnik
Produced by Perfo Production
Coproduced by Biberche, Black Cat Production, Kinorama, Protos Film, Quasar
Supported by the Slovenian Film Centre, Pro plus, FS Viba Film, Film Center Serbia, the North Macedonia Film Agency, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Film Centre of Montenegro, the Film Commission Friuli Venezia Gulia (FVG), Eurimages
3 Weeks After / 3 nedelje posle (Serbia, Luxembourg, Italy, Bulgaria, Croatia)
Directed by Miroslav Terzić
Produced by This and That Productions
Coproduced by Paul Thiltges Distribution, Nightswim, Invictus, Kinorama
Supported by Film Center Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, the Luxembourg Film Fund, MIC Italian Ministry of Culture, the Bulgarian National Film Center, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Creative Europe MEDIA
Our Father / Oče naš (Serbia, Italy, Croatia, North Macedonia, Montenegro, Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Directed by Goran Stankovic
Produced by This and That Productions
Coproduced by Nightswim, PomPom Film, Dream Factory, Kino, Srđan Novi Film, Cineplanet
Supported by Film Center Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of Italy, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Film Centre of Montenegro, the North Macedonia Film Agency, Film Fund Sarajevo, Creative Europe MEDIA, the RE-ACT Fund
Yugo Goes to America / Yugo ide u Ameriku (Serbia, Croatia), Documentary
Directed by Filip Grujić, Aleksa Borković
Desire Lines / Linije želja (Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, the Netherlands, Croatia, Germany)
Directed by Dane Komljen
Produced by Dart Film
Coproduced by Pipser, Serious Film, Mak Film, Marletti, Flaneur Films
Supported by Film Center Serbia , Hubert Bals Fund, Creative Europe MEDIA, the Netherlands Film Fonds, Audio-visual Center of Republika Srpska, Sarajevo Canton Ministry of Culture and Sport, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, Medienboard Berlin Brandenburg, Eurimages
Wind, Talk to Me / Vetre, pričaj sa mnom (Serbia, Slovenia, Croatia)
Directed by Stefan Đorđević
Produced by Non-Aligned Films
Coproduced by Katunga, SPOK Films, Restart (Croatia), Staragara (Slovenia)
Supported by Film Center Serbia, the Ministry of Culture of the Republic of Serbia, Creative Europe MEDIA, the Slovenian Film Centre, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, visions sudest, Viba Film
Yugo Florida (Serbia, Montenegro, Croatia, Bulgaria)
Directed by Vladimir Tagić
Produced by Sense Production
Coproduced by Adriatic Western, Eclectica, Contrast Films
Supported by Film Center Serbia, the Film Centre of Montenegro, the Croatian Audiovisual Centre, the Bulgarian National Film Center, Eurimages, Creative Europe MEDIA
