Party all night long

 “Night Life” of the festival takes place in the Aquarium on Bačvice (the journey from the open-air cinema is only 40 meters long so you don’t get tired). Warming up for the party starts around 23h, after the first film, but the real thing starts after the second film.

Tickets for any film are your tickets for the party so keep your tickets! That doesn’t mean others can’t get in, everyone is invited (anyone can come in, drinks are not expensive), but if the place gets crowded people who have the tickets are the first in line.

“Smuggling” alcohol is not allowed! In case the Aquarium gets overcrowded or in case of problems, number of people inside will be limited.

Party list:

TUESDAY May 27th; With a Taste of Sea, With a Taste of salt
After celebrating, we have the honour of introducing Arsen Dedic, who has just celebrated his 70th birthday and 50 years of career and music as our guest and the performer on Mediterranean Film Festival Split.
On the edge of an abandoned sea and a lost world, the best Croatian singer-songwriter will perform some of the music he wrote for movies and TV series and with this he will open the Festival in the best possible way; with a taste of sea, with a taste of salt.
La musique Fantastique duo, Party Tanja and Super Mario will entertain you with a selection of evergreen hits, from chansons, indie electronic to movie themes. With a pinch of salt, of course. 
Wednesday May 28th THE SHKOVATZZE PARTY + Dalmatia In Melodeye- (Karaoke!)

Thursday May 29th 4reaL by DJ REA

REA was born in Sarajevo 25 years ago, but during the war she first moved to Split, and later to Zagreb. Her DJ career started in 2004. In the last 4 years she has been performing all over Croatia and made an appearance of the prominent festivals in the region (Pitchwise, Illectric funk, Seasplash reggae festival, RAF....). Her style is an interesting mixture of dancehall, breakbeat, reggae, hip-hop, grime and jungle. In 2005 she became a part of Respektradiokollektiv, organizing Broken BPM club nights. In 2007.she went solo, but later, started organizing Jabbaton nights with a DJ group Jabba crew, in club KSET in Zagreb. 4Real! is her solo show in Quasimodo in Split. www.myspace.com/rea_profile

Friday, May 30th  Festa Balkanika Put your hands up in the air

On May 30th Bacvice will be filled with intoxicating gipsy music, wild klezmer and sentimental sevdah. The weather will choose the dance which will take over the crowd. Sero is returning to Split to prove that Ethno raspizdoto is THE Mediterranean lingo. Perkovich schnapps will intensify the mood.
www.festabalkanika.org

Saturday May 31st KIKLOP + JUSTIN’ JOHNSON

Kiklop is a 6 years old band. They have performed/volunteered almost everywhere; in Dubrovnik on Earth Day, Krilo Jasenice on the beach, at parties, in Kocka, Feshta Musica and they were the first band that performed on Barbarinac. After these performances the band took a break but two years ago popped up again with a slightly changed cast. They do covers in an aloof way, they are all about having fun. They are a female vocal male band.
Members:
Višnja Jurišić - vocals, Igor Babić - bass, Tomislav Kalebić - guitar, Nikola Erceg - drumms 
Justin's Johnson is a band Split audience knows and loves. Their mixture of ska, punk and pop, will spice up the last party of the Festival. They have 6 years of playing experience and have performed in over a hundred concerts in Croatia and elsewhere. Their music is a little less traditional but will make a great party last long into the night.

12.05 Only 14 days left

It is time to tell you what we have organized for you, where you will have the chance to see everything and what will you be able to do on the festival

The first Mediterranean Film Festival Split takes place from 27th May till 31st May on 2 locations; Zlatna Vrata cinema and open-air cinema Bačvice in Split. In the main program we have 11 full-length feature films, 9 of which are in the competition; 5 short films and 8 films in retrospective. Program is here.

Festival's „Night Life“will take place in the Aquarium on Bačvice after the shows. Right next to the Bačvice cinema we have parties every evening, starting with Arsen Dedić who will open the festival “With the Taste of Sea, With the Taste of Salt” and La musique Fantastique duo. Second night is for those who love karaoke and on Thursday we have 4real with Dj Rea. On Friday we have Oliver Sertić aka DJ Sero with his Feshta Balkanika. Kiklopi and Justin's Johnson will close the festival on Saturday.

In Info Zone on Šperun (Jerina St. 1) we organized an exhibition of best photographs from our contest „In Search of Lost Mediterrenean“.

We also have a round table led by Jurica Pavičić on which eminent experts in science, culture and sociology will participate. They will discuss issues of the Mediterranean region today and Mediterranean film and cinematography.

All in all we have a great festival and all we need is you, our audience, to join us and “get hooked on the festival”.

 

Tickets

Tickets for the first Mediterranean Film Festival Split can be bought in advance from 17th- 27th of May in PROFIL SUPERSTORE in Joker shopping centre (2nd floor).

From May 27th- 31st tickets can be bought only in Zlatna Vrata cinema and open-air cinema Bačvice.

Working hours for ticket offices:
Zlatna Vrata cinema: 9.30 – 18.30
Open-air cinema Bačvice: 12-23

Tickets can be bought every day for every film. Tickets can also be bought an hour before the show (and if the show is sold out in advance). Seats do not have numbers on them.

Ticket Prices:
20,00kn for movies at 21.00
15,00kn for all other shows
 
Package with tickets for 21h and 23h shows (8 films from the main program):
120,00kn (for high-school and college students 100,00kn)
The number of packages is limited! Every package comes with the catalogue. Packages can only be bought in advance from 17th- 27th of May in PROFIL SUPERSTORE and on the 27th of May in ticket offices. Additional information: blagajna@splitmedfilmfest.com
  

 

09.05. We are proud to present the program for the first 

Mediterrenean Film Festival Split. Show schedule and additional information on festival program

MAIN PROGRAM, competition:

Caramel- Nadine Labaki, Lebanon
The Edge of Heaven/ Auf der anderen seite - Fatih Akin, Germany/Turkey
Suddenly, Last Winter/ Improvissamente l’inverno scorso - Gustav Hofer/Luca Ragazzi, Italy
I always wanted to be a gangster/  – Samuel Benchetrit, France
Tale 52/ Istoria 52 - Alexix Alexiou, Grčka
The Orphanage/ El orfanato - J.A. Bayona, Spain
The Diving Bell and the Butterfly /Le Scaphandre et le Papillon – Julian Schnabel, France
The Secret of the Grain /La graine et le Mulet – Abdellatif Kechiche, France
The Yellow House /La maison jaune – Amor Hakkar, Algeria



MAIN PROGRAM, out-of competitiom

Will Not Stop There / Nije Kraj – Vinko Brešan, Croatia
Paris, I Love You/  Paris Je T’Aime – omnibus, France
SHORT FILM, competition
Giants/ Giganti – Fabio Mollo, Italy
Giacomo's Life/ Vita di Giacomo – Luca Governatori, Italy/France
Nitbus– Juanjo Gimenez, Spain
A Piece of News– Evgeny Ruman, Israel
Pharmakon – Ioakim Mylonas, Cyprus

Additional program: Mediterranean: politics of film images (chosen by Tanja Vrvilo)

All or Nothing/SVE ILI NIŠTA – Ivan Martinac, Croatia,  1968
Mediterrenean / MÉDITRRANÉE  - Jean Daniel Pollet, France 1963
Rapture/ARREBATO – Ivan Zulueta, Spain, 1979
Peuple en marche – Rene Vautier, France 1963
Frantz Fanon: Black Skin, White Mask – Isaac Julien, Great Britain, 1996
The Dupes / Al Makhdu'un – Tawfik Saleh, Syria, 1972
Nizza / À PROPOS DE NICE – Jean Vigo, 1930
The Coral Princess / DIE KORALLENPRINZESSIN – Victor Janson,
Germany, 1937
All that's left- Get Hooked on the Movies!

 

 

03.05. Countdown Begins

Only 25 days left! Although everything is a bit hectic right now we are on schedule. Since our holiday St. Duje is approaching and Split is taking a break (not us though), we decided to hold a press conference on Friday, May 9th when we will give all important information.

Only 11 days left for our photograph contest. We remind you that, in collaboration with DigitalFoto magazine, we are looking for the best photograph and the topic is “In Search of Lost Mediterranean”.

 

09. 04. 47 days left, festival online

Less than 50 days remaining ‘till the first Mediterranean Film Festival. From now on our web page is fully functioning so you can keep up with our news every day.

We also have a blog (splitmedfilmfest.blog.hr), facebook and myspace profiles, and soon you will be able to see previews for all the movies in the competition on our YouTube channel.

Mediterranean Film Festival has also organized a contest for best photograph. The theme is “In Search of Lost Mediterranean” which we organized in collaboration with Digital Photo magazine. Contest lasts till May 13th, and names of the winners will be published on our web site on May 22nd.  You can send your photographs on mediteran@mbi.hr.

 

30.03 First movies in competition

We are proud to present this year’s first films in the competition. Two treats from last year’s Cannes film festival; LE SCAPHANDRE  ET LE PAPILLON, by Julian Schnabel and THE EDGE OF HEAVEN by Fatih Akin.

Le Scaphandre et le Papillon or the Diving Bell and The Butterfly is a film based on an autobiography of the former editor of French edition of Elle magazine, Jean Dominique Bauby  who suffered a stroke in 1995, when he was 43 years old. That left his entire body paralyzed, except for his left eye. Bauby powerfully describes the state of his inner world; emotional torment of being trapped inside his own body and tells us stories from worlds he visited only in his imagination.

The film won two awards last year in Cannes, one of which is for best director. It won two Golden Globes this year; for best director and best foreign film; it has been nominated for this year’s Oscar in four categories, two of which for best director and adapted screenplay, and is nominated for 7 Cesar awards. The film is a winner in various categories on twenty more festivals with as many nominations.

Fatih Akin won the prestigious Golden Bear, the highest award of Berlin International Film Festival for his film Head On in 2004. He won the audience award from the European Film Academy. He is also the author of the documentary film Crossing the Bridge: The Sound of Istanbul. Akin brings us another story about the assimilation of immigrants into western society. The protagonist is a professor of Turkish origin. His father, while drunk, kills his mistress in Bremen. He travels to Turkey to provide financial help for the mistresses’ daughter but he doesn’t know she’s a political radical who is hiding from the Turkish authorities.

German diva Hanna Schygulla plays the mother of the German student that gets killed in Istanbul.

Film The Edge of Heaven won the award for best screenplay, and the Ecumenical Prize award last year in Cannes; was given the award for best screenplay by the European film Academy and was one of the nominees for this year’s Cesar in foreign movie category.