About 350 films have applied for this year's festival, some of which are having their premiere screening at the big screen in Široki Brijeg, while the program will also present films that have already won awards at major film festivals.

“This year is like no other. A flood of submissions poured onto the selector’s back. 352 works is a record fact. Walking through the pile of Mediterranean celluloid creations was not only quite tiring, but also a big perceptive challenge in all the width of what was offered”, the festival selector pointed out. 

In addition to the already well-known ways of narrative art, Mustać said that this year, among the films submitted for our stage, a new type of so-called hybrid documentary came to the fore and became important.

“A new genre, or an old genre in new containers, which tries to combine documentary, feature, experimental, animated ... and all this in a feverish mosaic of views and the author's worldview, has completely taken over the scene”, he said and added that, as always, the selector chose the most convincing and consistent film documents for the competition for awards.

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. For the first time, the Mediterranean Film Festival is going to award the ‘Best Camer’ award, which is sponsored by the Association of Cinematographers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ASBH), whose members are going to chose the best ones. 

Here are the twenty films that compete for the jury, audience and ASBH awards.

H, directed by Carlos Pardo Ros; Spain

THE SACRED FAMILY, directed by Borja Alcalde; Spain, UK 

TAWNY SANDS, directed by Francis Del Rio; France

THE OTHER HALF, directed by Giorgos Moutafis; Greece

MIGHTY AFRIN: IN THE TIME OF FLOODS, directed by Angelos Rallis;  Greece, France

THREE SPARKS, directed by Naomi Uman; Albania, Mexico 

BETWEEN REVOLUTIONS, directed by Vlad Petri; Romania, Croatia, Qatar, Iran 

FRAGMENTS FROM HEAVEN, directed by Adnane Buraka; Morocco, France

DOGWATCH , directed by Gregoris Rentis; Greece, France 

TAXIBOL, directed by Tommaso Santambrogio; Italy.

A SOFT HISS OF THIS WORLD, directed by Federico Cammarata and Filippo Foscarini; Italy, Croatia 

SHIRAMPARI: LEGACIES OF THE RIVER, directed by Lucia Flores; Peru, Spain, USA 

BOJA, directed by Anna Fernandez De Paco; Spain, B&H, UK 

VALERIJA, directed by Sara Jurinčić; Croatia 

RE-MEMBERING: MEDITATION ON A TRIPTYCH, directed by Amra Hećo; Sweden , B&H

IN MY SKIN, directed by Sandor M. Salas; Spain 

A MOUNTAIN OF MEMORIES, directed by Julen Zubiete; Spain

AQUERONTE, directed by Manuel Munoz Rivas; Spain

A GAZE, directed by Alberto Baldini; Spain   

WHY, directed by Natxo Leuza; Spain, Ukraine. 

24th Mediterranean Film Festival, whose general sponsor is HT Eronet, is taking place from 10 to 14 October in Široki Brijeg.