Mediteran Film Festival ()

Festival start: 22 August 2018      Festival end: 26 August 2018

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.

MFF is the oldest festival of documentary film in the region considering that only documentary films compete here and the largest part of the program is based on documentaries. This is one of the rare festivals that has money prizes for the winners of the festival and in that way helps them to create new film projects. The School of Film Culture with relevant lecturers is being organized within the very MFF. A short documentary film is created every year at the MFF workshop, which we screen at the closure of the festival.

Besides the film projections 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. Within the tourism part there are the tours visiting the most interesting sites in Hercegovina which might be used as the locations for films shooting. Visits to the most significant touristic potentials of Hercegovina (Međugorje and Mostar) are also organized. We meet the guests of the festival to the exceptional archaeological localities and introduce them with the potentials of ethno tourism. In cooperation with the Tourist Board we get our guests 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.

Mediterranean Film Festival lasts for six days, and all our guests, never mind from which part of the Mediterranean they might come, shall wish to come back again here.

The panel will reward the best film from the short documentary films’ selection. The award is “Best Short 18th MFF”. Along with the sculpture of the festival - the Crystal Projector, awarded to the author- there is also a cash prize for the author in the amount of 500 EUROS (five hundred Euros).

The panel will reward the best film from the feature-length documentary films’ selection. The award is “Grand prix of the 18th MFF”. Along with the sculpture of the festival - the Crystal Projector, awarded to the author- there is also a cash prize for the author in the amount of 1000 EUROS (one thousand Euros). Within the festival there is also “The audience award of the 18th MFF” and the author awarded shall be given the Crystal Projector and the amount of 500 Euros (five hundred Euros).

1. 1. General provisions

19th Mediterranean Film Festival will be held in Siroki Brijeg from August 22nd till 26th 2018. All the professional and amateur film and video authors of documentary films from the Mediterranean countries can participate in the competition part. These countries are, in the alphabetical order: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, San Marino, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Every author participating can only have one film registered in the official competition. The films that have the right to participate in the competition are short documentaries up to 30 minutes and feature-length documentary films over 30 minutes, which are produced after January 1st 2016.

1. 2. Technical provisions

Films sent to the selector must be by online application on website of festival. The films must contain subtitles in English language. The films for the selection, with a completed registration form, must be sent by the deadline May 20th 2018, at the latest.

1. 3. Rights of the organizers

The organization guarantees that the copies of the films will not be used for commercial purposes. For the projection of the selected works, the festival will not offer any compensation or screening fees, neither for the authors nor for the producers. The organizer reserves the right to use segments from the films for representation and marketing of the festival on the Internet and television. The organizer reserves the right of screening the films at its own retrospectives.

1. 4. The jury and awards

The expert panel of judges consists out of three members for short documentary films up to 30 minutes and three members for feature-length documentary films over 30 minutes. The panel will reward the best film from the short documentary films’ selection. The award is “Best Short 19th MFF”. Along with the sculpture of the festival - the MFF Projector, awarded to the author, there is also a cash prize for the author in the amount of 500 EUROS (five hundred Euros). The panel will reward the best film from the feature-length documentary films’ selection. The award is “Grand prix of the 19th MFF”. Along with the sculpture of the festival - the MFF Projector, awarded to the author, there is also a cash prize for the author in the amount of 1000 EUROS (one thousand Euros). Within the festival there is also “The audience award of the 19th MFF” and the author awarded shall be given the MFF Projector and the amount of 500 Euros (five hundred Euros).