“I believe that the Mediterranean Film Festival has placed itself on the map of significant festivals, not only among the regional ones, but also wider, with this selection. This is evident not only by the films that have been awarded at numerous festivals, taken part and received awards, but also by the number of films that are having their premiere screenings at this festival which talks about the authors and how much this festival is important for them”, Mustać said. 

Robert Bubalo pointed that this festival has always had the intention of promoting the additional cultural contents, besides film.  

"We insisted on tourism, gastronomy, oenology, music, exhibitions and book presentations Last year too. We are doing the same this year as well,'' he said.

He stated that unfortunately this year there are fewer guests from areas affected by war, at the festival, due to the big crisis in the Middle East, and he hopes that these authors will also return to Široki Brijeg next year.

He presented his film “Hassan’s Wars” which is about the journalist Hassan Haidar Diab, a man who has found the meaning of life, exchanged the gun with a pen, and who is protected by the police from the radical Islamists, to whom he himself once belonged to. 

Misijana Brkić Milinković, on the behalf of the Corporate Communications Department of HT Eronet, which this year also provides rich prizes to festival visitors, pointed out that they are happy to be with the Mediterranean Film Festival as a general sponsor again and that they continue to have the opportunity to grow and socialise with the MFF.

“It seems as if it was yesterday that we talked about how our Mediterranean Film Festival became mature, and now HT Eronet and MFF are together for two and a half decades. This year also we are providing free Wi-Fi, there is the application for audience votes for their favourite film and the luckiest voter will get Samsung Galaxy A05s. In the end, I would like to congratulate the hardworking MFF team for making Široki Brijeg and Herzegovina a place of great film stories and I wish at least this many more years together to the joy of all visitors and film lovers”, Brkić Milinković said and invited all the film fans to visit MFF video library on Home TV platform and see some of the films from the previous festivals. 

This year’s MFF is going to be opened on Tuesday in Borak cinema with the film “Prison Beauty Contest directed by Srđan Šarenac. 

Besides excellent film contents, the 25th Mediterranean Film Festival is also offering an interesting additional program created in cooperation with the Office for European Integration of the Government of West Herzegovina Canton.

Creative Europe Desk BiH is going to hold a workshop for preparation of successful projects for the calls of the Creative Europe Program on Tuesday, 8 October. Stephan Lupino and Dimitrije Popović are going to have presentations and workshops for youth and Tony Mandich is having a presentation on the topic “The influence of pop music on the film industry".  

The MFF is screening the short film "The Man Who Could Not Remain Silent" directed by Nebojsa Slijepčević, which was awarded the Palme d'Or at the Cannes Film Festival, while the Home authors program is featuring five documentaries. 

The award-winning animated film "The Cricket and Antoinette" by the Croatian director Luka Rukavina is going to be screened on the last festival day in the MFF Fora program, along with the short films created at the children camp “Zelenkapica” and the film created within the creative summer workshop “Zabavator”.  

The international jury decides on the best works at MFF in two categories – best feature documentary and best short and the 'Best Camera' award, signed by the Association of Cinematographers in Bosnia and Herzegovina.Besides the nine members of the jury that will decide on the winners of the 25th Mediterranean Film Festival on October 11, the audience decides on the third prize and awards the MFF Audience award. 

The awards ceremony is going to take place on Friday, October 11, and this year's Mediterranean Film Festival is going to be closed on Saturday October 12, with the film “The Wrath of God” directed by Kristijan Milić.