Lebanese- French film 'The Insult' by famous director Ziad Doueiri has been announced the winner of 11th Mediterranean Film Festival Split during the closing ceremony at open air cinema Bačvice. 11 long feature films that had been produced in Mediterranean countries competed for the main award 'FMFS hook'. The audience chose the winner, giving it the score of 4.82 points out of 5.00.

The winner of short film programme 'Ješke' , including Croatian short feature films, received a money prize of 11.000 kunas, provided by our long time sponsor 'Uje'

Tanja Mravak, a successful writer and star of 'Pričigin' (short stories festival) was a part of the jury, as well as Silva Ćapin and Petar Orešković, the authors of last year's film workshop for international market. FMFS, while picking out the members of jury, wanted to emphasize the importance of this type of workshops which this year unfortunately was not funded, but it is expected to continue with its work in 2019.

The winner of short film programme 'Ješke' , including Croatian short feature films, received a money prize of 11.000 kunas, provided by our long time sponsor 'Uje.'

Tanja Mravak, a successful writer and star of 'Pričigin' (short stories festival) was a part of the jury, as well as Silva Ćapin and Petar Orešković, the authors of last year's film workshop for international market. FMFS, while picking out the members of jury, wanted to emphasize the importance of this type of workshops which this year unfortunately was not funded, but it is expected to continue with its work in 2019.

Paraguayan film 'The Heiresses' by Marcelo Martinessi won two Silver Bears at the recent Berlinale together with other two awards, after which it received many other acknowledgements. Tonight its regional premiere is taking place at Bačvice at 21:30, as a part of 11th FMFS.

The audience in Split greeted last night Turkish film 'Butterflies' that had its premiere last night as a part of FMFS at open air cinema Bačvice. The director Tolga Karaçelik and leading actress Tugce Altug were thrilled to see that their film was sold out and said that 'thanks to the warm welcome in Split, they fell in love with their film all over again.'