‘Malta will never stand still’
Emma Mattei attends the fourth edition of the Mediterrane Film Festival
The billboards promised to take us beyond, together. Join us, they said. The nationwide marketing boasted 30 films from 18 countries, and a quick online check showed films from Italy, Spain, Tunisia, Cyprus, North Macedonia, Egypt and Morocco, which augured well for cohesion in a film festival that refers to the Mediterranean in its name.
A further look at the films selected by Mark Adams, the British programmer, and one could deduce that the film festival extended its ambitions beyond the region, to screen high(er) budget films from the US, Britain, China and Australia.
The only question was: Where was the national film section? One feature length co-production (Austria and Malta) does not make a section.
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