A real film festivities and a sold-out screening on the occasion of the opening of the 17th Mediterranean Film Festival Split at the Bačvice Open-air Cinema rolled around.
The opening credits of Lana Barić's new film, starring Ivana Roščić, Snježana Sinovčić, and Goran Marković, alongside Marija Škaričić, were the first to be screened.
- Working on this film was fantastic because they are all my dear colleagues and friends, and also the best Croatian actors. I am very happy and satisfied with the result. The film is very Mediterranean and I think this was the perfect place for the world premiere. My heart is really full, because Split and Bačvice Open-air Cinema are my home - said Lana Barić, who is the director and screenwrite.
Spanish director Miguel Faus revealed that for the first time he is showing his film "The Silent Maid" in an open-air cinema.
- Class differences are shown through the eyes of a housekeeper who is at the bottom of the job pyramid. In order to survive, she has to work very hard, cleaning toilets, washing clothes, cooking food for wealthy employers so they can enjoy their summer vacation. I thought that these are good contrasts that provide fertile ground for the film. Steven Soderbergh also agreed with that, with whose financial help we completed "The Silent Maid" - said the director after the audience in Split warmly received his debut film.
By next Saturday, a total of 107 films from 41 countries will have been shown at FMFS in six different programmes, and tonight, in addition to Bačvice, two more cinema locations are opening.
At the Golden Gate Cinemateque at 7 p.m., the synchronized fun family animated adventure "Fox & Hare Save the Forest" will be shown, celebrating the power of friendship, and it premiered in the children's competition programme of the Generation Kplus film festival in Berlin.
The open-air cinema at Gripe Fortress will be opened with "1001 Nights", the directorial debut of Rea Rajčić, which premiered at the Toronto Film Festival, and in which two elderly women from Split spend their evenings watching and commenting on Turkish soap operas. The feature film at Gripe arrives from the Berlinale as the winner of the FIPRESCI award. It is the Iranian film "My Favourite Cake", a touching tragicomedy with excellent performances by the two main actors.
The Bačvice Open-air Cinema is showing an Egyptian candidate for the Oscar award and a film that was a runaway box office success in Egypt. "Voy! Voy! Voy!" will be presented in Split personally by director Omar Hilal, and it is a darkly humorous drama based on an incredible true story about a man who pretends to be a visually impaired football player in order to escape to Europe.
