Golden Arena Awards
The national film industry awards called Golden Arena are always presented at the festival. All the locally produced feature films made in the preceding 12 months are screened at the festival and everyone involved in making them automatically qualify for the Golden Arena award in their respective category. Therefore there are no Academy Award-style shortlists of nominees announced prior to the actual awarding ceremony. However, some festival editions in the past also had runner-up awards for some categories, called Silver Arena. The awards are given by the jury made up of prominent film critics, directors, actors, etc.
- National competition awards
- Best Film
- Best Director
- Best Leading Actor
- Best Leading Actress
- Best Screenplay
- Best Supporting Actor
- Best Supporting Actress
- Best Production Design
- Best Cinematography
- Best Costume Design
- Best Film Editing
- Best Makeup
- Best Film Music
- Best Sound Editing
- Other awards
- Golden Birch (Croatian: Zlatna Breza) for best debuting director
- Oktavijan Award given by the Croatian Film Critics' Association for best film
- Golden Gate of Pula - Audience Award for best film as voted by festival audiences
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