The Mediterranean filmmakers follow the political, economic, social, and existential changes around them.Their films tackle with earthly problems, identity, movements within the basic cell of society - the family, dealing with poverty, disability, refugees, high politics, essential ideas, history and perspectives, and the beauties of the sea air simply given to them by higher powers.Considering the formal approach to film aesthetics, a kind of dual characteristic can be singled out. The first segment of the offered films consists of a meditative, contemplative, even transcendental complex of questioning the visuality and aesthetic consideration of beauty without borders.Pure films, stripped of messages and superfluous explanations, offer the pure pleasure of kinaesthetic formation.

The second segment of the offered films is a part of the so-called films of a restless form in which violent content catches us with its persistent demands. The television approach, with reportage and journalistic descriptive concepts, statements and comments of the protagonists, creates films that fully reveal their documentary nature and thus cast the feverish splendour of the problems they deal with before the viewer.If one wanted to take a walk through the frames of the selected films in the competition, they would surely encounter a network of diverse relationships and peerless formal and content varieties. So, in the short form we will watch two lonely women in the desolation of their village, juvenile prisoners, and criminals in African daily life.We shall also see a promising political activist who faces all the challenges that her decisions bring to her.

The dance of a girl in Alexandria, who adapts with her movements and body to the environment and the buildings that surround her.We follow the process of making a human pyramid. Ups and downs. We follow the tradition, the concept of living and the cohesiveness of an entire Spanish city in a straightforward way of the fateful challenge of eternity.An old man in the Montenegrin rocky grounds defies the modernist modalities of existence and the customs imposed on him. We have fun with the crew of an overseas ship, whose karaoke singing skills go beyond simply killing time.The Sarajevo war veteran takes care of his son, his city and the life he fought for. We amorously sail through the cityscapes of Cairo and witness its inhabitants’ obsessive fascination with the city. In the end, we follow the way of the cross of an old and worn-out anarchist who does not give up on her worldviews and way of survival at any cost, not even in her old age.Then, in the form of feature-length documentaries, we will follow a perfectionist depiction of the struggle of parents and their girl with the problems of school everyday educational tasks within their four walls of intimacy. 

We follow a comprehensive report on morticians and their activities in a slow-motion method of a painting of a Spanish city. We will meet Greek artists of radical circus shows through the wall of death and family entanglements in chaotic life systems. How do criminals and gangs live and work in a small town in Jamaica?In the manner of a real crime story, the naked truth unfolds in front of us, and we can only follow it with our mouths wide open and breathless.The life of a Palestinian taxi driver in Beirut, life on the streets, the taxi and the bed, everything is on the street. Both night and day.A highly sophisticated poetic madrigal about a valley that will soon stop to exist awaits us. 

A Turkish film requiem for a better past. Moroccan father in fascinating care for his son. In a mutual room and in a mutual struggle for a better moment and the meaning of everyday life.We also have a cinematic window into the world of blind football players,their meaning and their ultimate goal.People who break boundaries and create miracles in the perception of opportunities.The adventure of a Chinese young man who decides to return to his homeland, to the countryside. And his family urges him to get married, he is young and it’s about time. A tense story, enriched with details of youthful questioning. We observe the entire history of the punk movement in Morocco through the destiny of an extremely brave young man from Casablanca.Enchanting courage and willingness to risk life. All those who encounter the works at the 21stMFF must be prepared for the fireworks of emotions and sophisticated documents of realities that produce the Mediterranean reality today. 

Enjoy in spite of the burden of the coronavirus, which, in the form of a floating shadow is trying to remove us from our place in the auditorium.