In its 17th year, the Mediterranean Film Festival Split is moving the free cinema to the vicinity of the Gregory of Nin’s statue, in addition to the already well-known locations of Bačvice Open-air Cinema, Gripe Fortress and Zlatna vrata Cinemateque.
On the green area next to the northern entrance to Diocletian's Palace, FMFS will set up a temporary "Portaula Cinema", as the residents of the Get call this area.
- This year, we will return the location of the cinema for short films from the Dom mladih plateau to the center of Split. Our idea was to offer content in the evenings that would give our fellow citizens a reason to walk to Diocletian's Palace, and at the same time to inform foreign visitors that there is a film festival that they can join in our locations outside the very center - said FMFS director Alen Munitić, and announced that short film programmes of festival partners will be shown in the free cinema "Portaula".
The Postira Seaside Film Festival and the UMAS Revue are coming for the first time, and the selection of short films is already traditionally shown by Animafest Zagreb, Cinehill Film Festival, Sarajevo Film Festival and Zagreb Film Festival.
The FMFS organizers have also started revealing the premieres of the films they will screen in the feature-length programme "Parangal", which includes an excellent "catch" of titles from outside the Mediterranean basin. Gustav Möller's "The Guilty" is one of the most memorable hits in the history of the festival, so all fans of this director, as well as tense prison thrillers, will surely be delighted by his new film "Sons", in which the famous Danish actress Sidse Babett Knudsen plays the main role.
This year, "Parangal" is thrown all the way to Japan, from where the new film by Oscar-winner Ryûsuke Hamaguchi "Evil Does Not Exist" arrives, awarded with the Grand Jury Prize in Venice. The Iranian film "My Favorite Cake" arrives from the Berlinale as the winner of the FIPRESCI award, and the Icelandic cinema hit "Cold" based on the bestseller will provide a tense and mystical atmosphere. The Norwegian documentary-fiction hybrid "Fighters", a moving story in which a noble social worker saves a lost young man's life, is highly recommended.
FMFS also announces the first guests who will present their films. The big hit of this year's Sundance festival "Veni Vidi Vici" will be presented by the Austrian director duo Julia Niemann and Daniel Hoesl. It is a controversial social satire set in the world of the untouchable super-rich, for whom the rules do not apply as they do for other people. Dragan Jovićević will also talk to the audience about his "Warm Film", and there will certainly be no shortage of questions because this documentary explores LGBTIQ people throughout the history of Yugoslav and later Serbian cinematography, for which it uses inserts from more than 37 films.
During the 17th FMFS, Split Nomad Gallery will run "NoMAD MOVIE ART" for the third time, in it renowned authors from all over Croatia interpret film classics through the Mediterranean. At this sales exhibition, eight works of Visual Communication Design students from Split will be presented, children will participate in Mediteraonica, and the lecture dedicated to the movie poster will be held by the design studio Šesnić&Turković.
Tickets for the Mediterranean Film Festival Split go on sale next week.
