The Mediterranean Film Festival is going to screen twelve short documentaries, selected by the festival selector Zdravko Mustać, in the ‘In Focus’ program.

Croatian director Ana Hušman in her film ‘I Would Rather Be a Stone’ through the voice of Little Jela tells the story of the events which marked a generation and shaped the future of the landscape of Lika, a neglected and sparsely populated part of Croatia. We are watching a portrait of a kindergarten class in Montreuil, in the Parisian suburbs, in the film ‘Childhood Colours’ directed by Alexandre Labarussiat. We are watching a story by one more Croatian director, Brabara Babačić, in the film ‘Silver Women’, which is an intense portrayal of Bolivian women who live a miserable life within the mining community near the city of Potosi.

Luigi Cuomo is an Italian director who, in his film ‘Dyspnea’, shows the moments in life which bring you closer to another person in a deep and visceral way, especially in a father-son relationship.

We are watching the film ‘Katalipsi’ from Spain, whose production dominates in this selection, by the director Elaine Sier. A police officer infiltrates social and squatter movements in Barcelona, but disappears without a trace, taking with him their most precious thing, their intimacy.  Another Spanish film is ‘Madwomen in the Attic’ directed by Tamara García Iglesias, which, through analogue casting, explores the representations of madness in silent films of the 20s and 30s.

The award-winning documentary about childhood abuse, 'Quartz 7:11' by the director Daniel Ortiz Entrambasaguas also comes from this country.

The Dutch-Italian production brings 'City of Poets', directed by Sara Rajaei, while another Spanish documentary, directed by Leira Egaña, called 'Walking', takes us on a slow mountaineering through three hikes in the Basque Country.

The film ‘Between Delicate and Violent’, directed by Şirin Bahar Demirel, which comes from Turkey, imagines unearthing traumatic memories that have not been included in family albums.

‘The Sardine Roaster’ preoccupied Spanish director Adrián Ordóñez, while 'Diorama' by Italian director Elena Conti focused on growing up on an island like Sardinia, which almost feels like  living inside a diorama.

Films from this selection are not competing for awards.