Zdravko Mustać, the festival selector, Marijana Mikulić, member of the jury in the category of short documentary, Misijana Brkić Milinković on the behalf of HT Eronet as the general sponsor were also present at the press conference, and informed the public about the festival, official competition program, off program, workshops and other events within the festival. Zdenko Jurilj, director of films 'Radio Ganga' and 'People that Planted Trees', Robert Bubalo, one of the directors of the music documentary 'Bare' and the futuristic documentary '2068', and Lucy Eagleson Ribich, leader of the MFF workshops also addressed to the media.

Selector Mustać said 260 films were submitted in the jubilee year of the festival and it was a difficult job to select 20 of them that entered the official competition program. A large number of films have already been screened at foreign festivals and received major awards, and most of the films are coming from Spain.

''If we have films from Cannes, from IDFA in our competition programme, this means that this festival is very well positioned within this type of documentary film festivals, and I would say even outside BiH'',  Mustac said.

As far as the thematic structure of these films is concerened, as he pointed out, these are mostly current topics that we follow through the media.

„The largest number of films talks about migrants that are travelling through the continental and Mediterranean route. A large number of films is also dealing with the causes of why this is all happening. From countries not so much affected by the war - Spain, France, Italy, the thematic block is a little wider, so they also deal with anthropological and sociological films, topics within families where authors as protagonists engage and show their destinies to people”, the festival selector said.

Actress Marijana Mikulić talked about short documentary competition programme and she pointed that this is the first time for her in this role at such a big festival and that the decision on the best films will be extremely difficult.

“Although these are short films, they have made a great impression on me and some have emotionally shaken me up as a woman, mother and a human who knows that such things happen, but when you look at them this way, you feel so small and powerless”, Mikulić said.

Misijana Brkić Milinković, head of the Corporate Communication Department at HT Eronet, which has again provided rich awards for the visitors of the Festival, pointed that HT Eronet is extremely proud of this cooperation that has been going on for years and HT Eronet has become a true partner of the most beautiful Mediterranean film story.

„HT Eronet has created a web platform for votes of the audience for films in the competition – MFF Film Critic, which is a fact that not many festivals in the region can boast with. Besides the fact that visitors personally rate and become one of the film critics at the MFF through this platform, at the end of the festival the luckiest one wins a valuable prize provided by HT Eronet - Honor View 20 DS'', said Brkić - Milinković.

The film that will open the 20th MFF is documentary “radio Ganga” directed by Zdenko Jurilj, that was created in Kadar production from Široki Brijeg.

After a series of sad stories, we finally made something that is cheerful, but at the same time melancholic because it is the story and the people who are dying out. These are the last keepers of traditional customs and songs but through the prism of one radio host, Tomislav Matković. It's a film of humour, melancholy, it's not a classic narrative story, and it’s not an observational documentary. Through the prism of this radio host, we show all these people, their customs, their specific style of humour and their way of life, '' the director said.

Jurilj has also presented the film ‘People that Planted Trees’, created by Josip Mlakić’s script, a documentary that is, as pointed out, tight, closed and where they tried to show the life of two people with PTSD who fought on different sides in the war.

The programme ‘Home Authors’ will also screen the film ‘2068’, a feature futuristic documentary directed and written by Robert Bubalo.

“The film features ten Croatian scientists who are the best in their fields and they predict what kind of world we will live in fifty years from now. The topics are playful, fun, populist. There are lots of fun predictions, some dystopian, some utopian. Not a single moment of this film is boring especially since we have enriched it with feature scenes starring Goran Bogdan and Marijana Mikulić”, Bubalo said and invited everybody to the premiere that is taking place on Thursday, 22 August at 21h.

In addition to this, a music documentary 'Bare' was also presented, which talks about Goran Bare, and is directed by Mario Vukadin and Renato Tonković, along with Bubalo.

MFF Workshop leader Lucy Eagleson Ribich presented a short film made by the workshop participants in Široki Brijeg in recent days, which will be screened at the closing ceremony of the festival.

The Mediterranean Film Festival, which was, among others also supported by the US Embassy in BiH and the Office of the EU Special Representative in BiH, will be held from 21 to 24 August in Široki Brijeg.

There are ten feature documentaries in the competition that will compete for the MFF Projector award, the ‘Grand Prix’, sponsored by Podravka, and short documentary films that compete for MFF Projector award ‘Best Short’. The audience will also choose the best film by their opinion and this one is wining the MFF Projector ‘Audience Award’ sponsored by HT Eronet.