The award ceremony of the 73rd Pula Film Festival was held on Wednesday night at the Istrian National Theatre, with an abundant accompanying programme. The Golden Arena Awards for the Main Programme (Croatian Film and Croatian Minority Co-productions), the Breza Award, and the Award for Best Regional Film were presented. Awards for films in the […]

Sculptor and painter Gualtiero Mocenni presented the Marijan Rotar Award at the Festival Centre Gualtiero Mocenni is inextricably linked with the earliest years of Pula Film Festival, in which he was involved in designing the Festival’s visual identity with his visual art. In close cooperation with Marijan Rotar and other collaborators, he took part in […]

Pula Film Festival is in the final stretch, and the Golden Arenas will be presented at 6 p.m. on Wednesday, 16 July at the Istrian National Theatre. The competition will be intense until the very end, as demonstrated by daily changes in the critics’ and audience scores; the latest critics’ scores put Three Weeks After, […]

Pula Film Festival held a panel on AI in film, presented crews of films in the Main Programme, and here are the latest scores from the critics and audience. See what’s coming soon on Tuesday at the Festival! The film Extraordinary was screened as part of the children’s evening at the Arena, and the youngest […]

The films Small Things, Honey Bunny, Yugo Goes to America and Our Father in the Main Programme marked Saturday evening and Sunday’s conversations at Pula Film Festival. Halfway through the Festival week, these are the critics’ and audience scores – Igor Šeregi’s The Wedding is still in the lead with the audience, and Zvonimir Jurić’s […]

The 73rd Pula Film Festival officially started with the opening ceremony at the packed Arena on Thursday evening. The evening was marked by great interest from the audience even before the opening ceremony, with the numerous crew of the film The Wedding, which opened the Festival, walking the red carpet. The long ovations at the […]

The 73rd Pula Film Festival will open on Thursday, 9 July, when the Arena will welcome the 800,000th viewer of the film The Wedding. This year’s edition of the Festival brings two most watched Croatian films in the last 30 years, while the film How the War Started on My Island will close the Festival. […]

Pula Film Festival brings a special Homage to Vlasta Lah (1913-1978), one of the most important pioneers of Latin American cinema. Born in Pula, Vlasta Lah left an indelible mark on the history of film as the first woman to direct an Argentine feature sound film, and today her work is being rediscovered and valued […]

Livio Morosin and 150 Singers of Pula Choirs to Open Pula Film Festival, The Wedding Anticipating Its 800,000th Viewer  The 73rd Pula Film Festival will open on Thursday, 9 July, at the Pula Arena, with a big music spectacle by Livio Morosin, winner of Sanremo Junior Zoe Šestan, and as many as 150 singers from […]

Pula is already in festival mood, and ahead of the 73rd Pula Film Festival, the city is full of various programmes dedicated to film: workshops and films for the youngest ones, film retrospective on the occasion of the centenary of Nikola Tanhofer’s birth, screenings of new European film hits at Valli Cinema, and exhibitions across […]