Estonian premiere

Hotel Pula

Local title
Hotell Pula
Director
Andrej Korovljev
Country
Croatia
Year
2023
Festival
27th Black Nights Film Festival
Programme
Focus: Serbia and SEE* Neighbours
Genre
drama
Subject
interpersonal relationships

Award-winning documentarist Andrej Korovljev lures real-life history into his multicultural hometown for his first fiction film. Personal memories of the 90s blossom in emotional authenticity with a skilful decision to shoot in an abandoned ghost hotel “Pula”, which provided temporary rooms for refugees during the Balkan War in 1995.

Renowned Bosnian actor Ermin Bravo and remarkable debutant Nika Grbelja embody very persuasively a casual stray love, doomed to inevitably end in a heartbreaking separation. Underage high school student Una enchantingly interrupts the sad and painful routine of Bosnian Mahir, 22 years her senior. As the flirty girl gradually grows into a young woman, a gravely hurt guest unravels the impossibility of healing from wounds of guilt, hate and blame.

Edvinas Pukšta

Director
Andrej Korovljev
Screenwriter
Ivan Turković Krnjak
Cast
Nika Grbelja, Ermin Bravo, Petra Blašković, Romina Vitasović Lučić, Nika Ivančić
Producer
Dijana Cetina Mlađenović
Co-producer
Mike Downey
DoP
Stanko Herceg
Editor
Ivana Fumić
Composer
Dalibor Grubačević
Production
Kinematograf
Runtime
Language
Croatian, Bosnian
Subtitles
English
Director
Andrej Korovljev

Andrej Korovljev (1970)

Filmography:
Zbog tebe (Because of You, 2016, co-dir), Tusta (2019), Hotel Pula (2023)

Film Center Serbia
Croatian Audiovisual Centre

Screenings

Hall 2 Kino Artis
Screening012203 / Hotell Pula
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
Hall Electric Cinema, Tartu
Screening024202 / Hotell Pula
SubtitlesEnglish
Screening duration
4th Hall Apollo Kino Solaris
Screening111404 / Hotell Pula
SubtitlesEnglish
Q&A guestsAndrej Korovljev (Director), Mladenovic (Producer)
Q&A duration
Screening duration
Trailer