Film "The Beast" by Daina Oniunas Pusić is the winner of the programme "Ješke" of this year's Mediterranean Film Festival Split, while special jury awards go to "The Islands of Forgotten Cinemas" and "Two of us" by Andrija Mardešić

Oniunas Pusić won the prize of 6000 kn sponsored by a company from Split "Uje" where the jury declared the winner of this short film category.

The film is a rare mixture of existential dramma and a piece of work by genre that won us over with its reduction of dialogue and high stylization- explained its decision the jury which members were Jelena Novaković, the director of last year's winner "Ana Square", Miro Nikolić, Filmoskop's associate and film critic of "Dalmatinski portal" and Leopold Botteri, the entrepreneur and sponsor of the award "Uje".

The new project was also presented. It will be a part of FMFS and it will support young unknown directors from Split.

This year we are celebrating our 10th anniversary and we concluded that it is time for us to become socially responsible. We could never help Hajduk with our contribution, however budgets for culture are much more closer to our possibilities and aspirations. We will support only excellent projects and Mediterranean Film Festival with its projects is the best example of what kind of Split we want. - Leopold Botteri from "Uje" explained his decision.

Alen Munitić, the director of FMFS expressed the happiness for the development of film industry in Split.

The idea is to publish the competition for the scripts in autumn and then a part of the projects will be selected for the next step where they will be cooperating with experts improving their scripts and "pitching" the project. During FMFS 2017 the finalists will present their projects to the jury and the winner will get the prize that should help in making the movie. FMFS will support the winner by applying them on competitions and in that way we will try to have a complete budget for a short film that should be finalized in 2018- Munitić revealed the plan.