The 15th Mediterranean Film Festival Split had its award ceremony last night in open-air cinema Bačvice. It screened more films than ever before on multiple locations, everything was back to the 'old normal'.
The Youth Jury, eight participants of the Be a Movie Producer project, gave the Festival's Hook award for best full-length feature to Nina Violić, for her film Kick and Scream.
- For her creativity and innovative concept of finding objective truth and its relationship with human nature, through powerful and believable acting. An amazing portrayal of the destructive power of subjectivity and the depth of intimacy, as joyous as it is heavy if we are not honest with each other – says the jury that gave a special nod to the Spanish director Charlota Peredi for her film Piggy.
The Audience Award for best full-length feature from the Mediterranean program went to the Moroccan director Al Hadi Ulad Mohand for his film Life Suits Me Well.
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The Jury for Ješke, Croatian short film program, Ewa Bojanowska (New Europe Sales), director Marko Dješka, Natko Stipaničev, and Vlado Ercegović, the director of Zlatna Vrata cinema, awarded the film Carpe Diem (directed by Filip Antonio Lizatović) with HRK 15 000 and the Hook award for best short film. Maja Gros, the film's producer, accepted the award.
- For an expert play with the dynamics that shifts the audience's attention, funny relationships between the characters and the satirical depiction of the challenges faced during tourist season – explained the jury that also gave a special nod to the short film A Moving Target, directed by Marko Dugonjić.
The Hook Award for best screenplay went to Šimun Šitum for the Funeral, and the same director received the audience award.
- The film has a strong, but subtle emotional charge, it expertly and concisely shows deep family relationships authentic for the hard, Balkan-Mediterranean area.
The audience also chose the Spanish film This is not My Mom (directed by Lavier Loarte) as the best international short film.
