The Mediterranean Film Festival in Široki Brijeg is characteristic for a unique atmosphere – a mixture of relaxed fun, tourism, rhythm and films. Hence the Festival quickly became the favourite of film workers and audience. Those who once feel the scent of the Mediterranean in this little town of film, shall always return to it. In front of the hall where the projections are going on there is always an interesting atmosphere, and after the projections there is always fun and dancing to the rhythms of urban music till late hours. The Festival is the initiator of the new relations within the world of culture, there is no elitism in it, no VIP boxes, no privileges. Within the last ten years we have succeeded to create an atmosphere in which no one feels alienated, inferior or less invited to be a part of the event. Besides the competition part, at this year's Festival there will be numerous other programs. The most interesting documentaries of this and last year world's production shall be played, the new feature films from the region, the retrospectives and the works of the local authors. The School of Film Culture with relevant lecturers shall be organized within the very MFF.
Besides the film projections that take place daily from 3 p.m. till after midnight on each Festival day, there are also other programs offered at MFF. First of all the touristic ones, where a new branch, unknown untill now in Hercegovina, is developed – the cultural tourism. Therefore shal the 11th Mediterranean Film Festival have a three-days foreprogram, within which this branch shall be initiated. The Foreprogram shall have a film part and the tourism part, and shall take place from Sunday, August 29th, till Tuesday, August 31st 2010. Within the film program you can see the world's best documentaries, and within the tourism part there shall be the tours visiting the most interesting sites in Hercegovina which might be used as the locations for films shooting. Also visits shall be organized to the most significant touristic potentials of Hercegovina (Međugorje and Mostar). We shall find out about the extraordinary archaeological locations in Hutovo blato, and have the insight into the potentials of ethno-tourism.nt.
In cooperation with the Touristic Union we shall get acquainted with the Hercegovinian gastronomy – an extraordinary cuisine that has preserved the ancient taste and has not subdued to the modern culinary novelties, and belongs to a very healthy nutrition.
The 11th Mediterranean Film Festival shall actually last for seven days, and all our guests, never mind from which part of the Mediterranean they migh come, shall wish to come back again here. MFF is also the oldest Documentary Film Festival in the region.
