The seventeenth edition of the Mediterranean Film Festival Split ends tonight at the Bačvice Open-air Cinema with the awards given by the juries and the audience.
Members of the jury for the feature film programme "Mediterranean" are Fatima Djoumer (Director of Europa Cinemas), Jelena Vojvoda (Director of Samobor Cinema and Vice President of the Croatian Independent Cinemas Network) and Boban Stefanović (Film Programme Editor of the Gornji Milanovic Cultural Center and President of the Serbian Cinema Network).
The jury that will choose the best "Ješka": Hana Tintor (animator), Nikola Kuprešanin (screenwriter) and Ivan Efendić (director and last year's FMFS winner).
Youth Jury of the "Mediterranean" programme: Martina Bunjevčević, Karolina Sušić, Ena Kljaković Šatnić, Luka Jukić i Karlo Bušić.
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It will be followed by the film of the evening, shown out of competition, the Italian cinema hit of the year "There's Still Tomorrow", the directorial debut of the popular Italian actress Paola Cortellesi. Tickets are sold out, but at 8 p.m. it will be possible to buy tickets "for the wall", the extra seats, at the box office, with which you can enter the Bačvice Open-air Cinema after 9:15 p.m.
Animated films for the youngest will be shown in three time slots on Saturday at FMFS, but they are also great for all those who love this film form. Admission to the "The Elephant Goes Green" programme (Zlatna vrata cinematheque at 10 a.m.) is free of charge, and it consists of a selection of nine short animated films that provide a witty and playful approach to exploring various aspects of sustainable development and nature conservation. At the same venue, at 7 p.m., the dubbed "Nina and the Hedgehog's Secret", an animated French family adventure, will be screened.
"Robot Dreams" premieres at Gripe Fortress from 9:15 p.m., the first animated film by the award-winning Spanish director Pablo Berger, known to the FMFS audience for the film Snow White (2012), bringing a touching story about the importance and fragility of friendship. The film premiered at the Cannes festival, and was nominated for an Oscar.
The Portaula Cinema is hosting an evening titled "All and Nothing At All" dedicated to the film music of Mirko Krstičević, who devoted most of his career to composing music for theater productions and films. This year, the publishing house Fox & His Friends released a vinyl record containing a selection of film and theater music he composed from 1978 to 1988. FMFS will screen two short films by Ivan Martinac and one by Svemir Pavić, and after the screening, the record will be presented along with a discussion featuring Mirko Krstičević and the album's
