12/10/2022 Mediterranean film festival
Second day: Masterpieces, rock'n'roll and strong competition
Masterpieces of home cinematography from the program of the Film Centre Sarajevo are opening the second festival day. These are the masterpieces of B&H cinematography, which were the audience and jury favourites at festivals around the world at the time they were created.
The film ‘Second Blast’ by Vlado Balvanović documents the working and living conditions of the construction workers during the construction of access roads, loading docks, as well as rock blasting in the quarry. We follow miners from Kakanj in the film ‘Where the Young Walnuts Used to Grow’ by Bakir Tanović, and Vlatko FIlipović takes us to the ‘Land of Neretva’.
This year's festival will also show the story of Roma who try to stay in one part of Bosnia, but the environment does not accept them due to prejudice. The film 'Tent City' directed by Drenko Orahovac deals with this topic. Petar Ljubojev brings us back to the miners and the mentality of the working class in "Tenancy rights of Safer the miner", while Milutin Kosovac takes us on a journey with the goatherd Ante in the film "I Have Nothing against God".
In this program, the attention of film lovers will certainly be attracted by 'Pharaoh Stipe from Vidoši', directed by Ratko Orozović. It is a story about a man who, after stopping his education, gained knowledge by reading books. Pharaoh Stipe is a unique example of a self-taught architect, with his own style that overcame the circumstances of life.
The second day of this year's MFF, Wednesday, October 12, can also be called rock'n'roll day as there are two nice rock events on the schedule. First, Željko Bebek's autobiography "In Spite of Everyone" will be presented at the Park Hotel at 5 p.m. The book will be presented by Željko Bebek himself, the "ghost writer" Robert Bubalo, and the director of Croatia Records Želimir Babogredac.
And at 8 p.m., the second big rock event of the day: in the Borak cinema, there is a screening of the autobiographical film "Sing me a Song" about the great Slovenian musician Vlado Kreslin. The film will be presented by Vlado Kreslin himself, and this great singer-songwriter who has played with Bob Dylan several times will also play in Široki Brijeg.
The films from the competition are on the program from 6 p.m, film "Carols" by director Jenny Tsiropoulou from Greece and "How to Save a Dead Friend" by Marusya Syroechkovskaya from Russia. Screenings at 10 p.m. also bring titles from the competition section - "Memory" by Spanish director Nerea Barros and "Museum of Revolution" by Srđan Keča.