After four sold-out screenings at the beginning of the Mediterranean Film Festival Split, at the beautiful Bačvice Open-Air Cinema, they are showing movie treats again tonight.
The Moroccan-French dynamic and powerful family drama “The Damned Don't Cry” premiered at the Venice Film Festival. Fatima-Zahra comes to the city of Tangier with her 17-year-old son and they finally get the chance for a better life that they long for, but there their paths diverge more and more, and the already fragile relationship is further damaged.
An evening at Bačvice opens "While We Were Here" by Sunčica Fradelić, shown as part of the Ješke programme, and reveals fragments of the lives of the characters, through summer and winter, while each of them faces loss.
Monday at FMFS is started by Manticora at 7 p.m. in Zlatna vrata cinematheque. Acclaimed Spanish director Carlos Vermut presents a bold and controversial film that explores one of society's ultimate taboos through the main character's struggle to suppress his dark urges.
At 9:30 p.m., the satirical black comedy The Sick, the debut film of Norwegian director Kristoffer Borgli, premiered as part of the Un Certain Regard programme at the Cannes Film Festival. The waitress Signe and the artist Thomas are a narcissistic couple in a competitive and unhealthy relationship, which is further intensified when Thomas suddenly gains popularity in the world of contemporary art. In response to his fame, Signe desperately tries to present herself as a more interesting person and attract more attention in society, using increasingly radical methods.
Olhares do Mediterrâneo, the first international film festival in Portugal dedicated to the visibility of women in the international cinema arena, is hosting its program on the plateau in front of the Youth Center.