Premieres in the Arena will be: Aleksi by Barbara Vekarić, Home by Dario Pleić, Lada Kamenski by Sara Hribar and Marko Šantić, Till the End of Death by Anđelo Jurkas, For Good Old Times by Eduard Galić, Deep Cuts by Filip Peruzović, Filip Mojzeš and Dubravka Turić, Mali by Antonio Nuić, and The Miner by Hanna Slak, as well as Exorcism by Dalibor Matanić, Comic Sans by Nevio Marasović, and The Eight Commissioner by Ivan Salaj. 

The following films will premiere at Valli Cinema: Catalina by Denijal Hasanović, Perseverance by Miha Knific, An Impossibly Small Object by David Verbeek, and Jimmie by Jesper Ganslandt, while Ivan by Janez Burger and The Frog by Elmir Jukić will be screened as reruns. Chameleon by Dino Kos and Fran Barunčić, and Men Don’t Cry by Alen Drljević will be screened out of competition.

Along with feature films, the Programme will not lack in premieres of new seasons of drama series such as The Paper by Dalibor Matanić and Black & White World by Goran Kulenović, as well as documentary series Slumbering Concrete: Episode 3 - Split and Varoski Amarcord: Episode 1 - Šibenik. The following short films have been selected: In the Name of the Strawberry, the Chocolate and the Holy Spirit by Karla Lulić, On the Water by Filip Lozić, Summer ’17 by Veno Mušinović, Deep Fried by Ivan Mokrović, Sandra and Marina by Igor Jelinović and Third Kind by Yorgos Zois.

Cover photos: press conference regarding the Croatian Programme of the 65th Pula Film Festival