Ten films in the ‘Home Authors’ program are going to be screened at the 24th Mediterranean Film Festival. 

The festival is going to be opened on Tuesday 10 October, with the fiction film ‘Stigma’ directed by Zdenko Jurilj. The film deals with the universal subject of ideological stigmatisation. The film is set in western Herzegovina, in the turbulent period after the Second World War. It talks about the devastation in a traditional environment left by ideological confrontations, which culminates during a tobacco journey. The film, based on Josip Mlakić’s screenplay, casts Ivo Krešić, Bojan Beribaka, Miro Barnjak, Ivan Skoko, Mario Knezović and Robert Pehar.

The program of ‘Home Authors’ on the second day of the festival is opening with ‘Walls’ directed by Ivo Čolak and Marko Mikulić. This is the story of three aging war prisoners who decided to make a film about what they experienced in the camps during the Homeland War in Bosnia and Herzegovina.

The program continues with the film about sculptor Stjepan Skoko – ‘Sculptor from Grab’ directed by Tomislav Topić. The film follows a sculptor from a small Herzegovinian village, his education and work which, as the critics say, is characterised by a high degree of authorial invention. 

On the same day, MFF is screening the film ‘Speedy’ by Karmen Obrdalj. In this film we will meet the man with the most friends in the world - Speedy, a representative of the Herzegovinian entertainment scene.

Director Mirko Pivčević takes us on a journey through ‘Coffee Smuggling Routes’ in the second half of the 1970s and the beginning of the 1980s, when a phenomenon was created in the territory of the former Yugoslavia that permanently entered the collective memory of the country. It is about the smuggling of raw coffee.

Short film ‘The Night of Silver and Gold’ directed by Zdravko Terkeš, shows a drug addict in crisis who breaks into a wealthy middle-class apartment and asks if an enemy, a drug addict and a thief, can be a friend in a time of need?

The young director Tvrtko Bubalo also addresses the issue of drug addiction in his work.  The film ‘Tomorrow is a New Day’ explores the challenges that medical professionals face in communities while trying to help those who are struggling with the effects of drug consumption and overuse. 

There are also two animated films in this program – ‘Purpose’ by Tvrtko karačić, whose plot follows the inhabitants of a small village connected by a series of gears and wheels and ‘Hope’ by Pero Petrušić, the film that follows a girl Nada and shows the time in Herzegovina from 1907 to 1922, where great importance is given to the man of the time. The awarded animated film shows the great significance of Fr. Didak Buntić, who lived, worked and contributed to Herzegovina at that time.

On Friday, October 13, we are closing the ‘Home Authors’ program with a documentary film about one of the greatest Croatian painters and graphic artists, Virgilije Nevjestić. ‘Silent Drifter’ directed by Zdenko Jurilj, shows the man who, according to art criticism in France, was considered one of their greatest graphic artists of the 20th century, and he called himself a drifter.

The films from this selection are not competing for awards. 

We remind you that twenty documentary films – ten feature length and ten short documentaries, selected by the selector Zdravko Mustać, are in the competition for awards at the 24th Mediteran Film Festival.

The festival, whose general sponsor is HT Eronet, is taking place from 10 to 14 October in Široki Brijeg.