30/07/2021
22 Mediterranean Film Festival: 20 films in competition
Twenty documentary films – ten feature length and ten short documentaries, selected by Zdravko Mustać, the festival selector, are going to compete in the competition programme of the 22nd Mediterranean Film Festival.
Selected among the record of 300 films submitted for this year’s festival we are going to screen documentaries which have already won awards at big film festivals, while some of them will have their premiere screening in Široki Brijeg.
“The films submitted for consideration are primarily characterised by thematic diversity and completeness. As one might think at first, the coronavirus and its plague did not come to the fore as the protagonist, on the contrary, there were only a few works that touched on this disease in a more or less fast and silent way and nothing more”, Zdravko Mustać, the festival selector pointed.
He stated that they mainly focused on maritime motives, social turmoil in their societies, family difficulties through autobiographical perspective and so on.
“We have followed refugees, war traumas; we have been offered a bunch of films that refer to the recent or distant past in the form of archive footage or photographs, and of long confessions that too often oppose the present moment”, Mustać said.
Two three-member international juries are going to decide on the awards for the best feature documentary in the Mediterranean, the Festival “Grand Prix” and the “Best Short” in the short film category. The third prize is awarded by the festival audience.
Here are the twenty films that compete for the jury and audience awards.
Official competition programme – Feature documentary film:
SAND WOMEN
Agustín Domínguez, Spain
EXPRESS SCOPELITIS
Emilia Milou, Greece
IL MIO CORPO
Michele Pennetta, Switzerland, Italy
ON THE LINE
Alex Gohari, Léo Mattei, France
A WAY HOME
Karima Saidi, Morocco, France, Belgium
RED MOON TIDE
Lois Patiño, Spain
AMUKA-THE AWAKENING OF CONGOLESE FARMERS
Antonio Spanò, Belgium, Italy
THE LAST TAPE FROM BOSNIA
Albert Solé, Spain
NO HARD FEELINGS
Arthur Abramov, Israel
MOTH
Roxanne Gaucherand, France
Official competition programme – Short documentary film:
STUPID, NAIVE AND LUCKY
Giulio Tonincelli, Italy, Germany
SALVO
Federico Cammarata, Italy
OBRAD
Branislav Milatović, Montenegro
THE BODIES
Eloy Domínguez Serén, Spain
[B E E E E E E E E E 'E E ]
ziREjA , Spain
3 LOGICAL EXITS
Mahdi Fleifel, Lebanon
BEFORE I DIE
Iker Esteibarlanda, Spain
MUTHA & THE DEATH OF HAM-MA FUKU
Daniel Suberviola, Spain
HEURTEBISE
Elisa Torres, Octavio Guerra, Spain
THE SHADOW OF LIGHT
Dragana Sapanjoš, Croatia
22 Mediterranean Film Festival, whose general sponsor is HT Eronet, is taking place from 25 to 28 August in Široki Brijeg.
