Kino Mediteran reached its 50 000th visitor last weekend, in the cinema in Bol on the island of Brač, at the screening of the Estonian children’s film “Eia’s Christmas at Phantom Owl Farm”. This project of revitalizing cinemas in Dalmatia, includes 30 Dalmatian towns on the islands, the coast and inland. This huge result coincides with the presentation of the project in Lisbon at the conference of the network of European cinemas, Europa Cinemas, where Kino Mediteran will be presented as one of 12 cinemas in the centre of this network of 1100 cinemas from 43 countries.

Founded in honor of the filmmaker and author Vedran Šamanović, assigned for the first time at Pula Film Festival 2010, the annual award "Vedran Šamanović" is awarded this year to "a film artist who is in any branch of film art in short or long meter with an innovative approach expanded the boundaries of film expression in Croatian film ".