3rd Mediterrane Film Festival: 23 publications

Victor Fraga - 30-06-2025

The third edition of one of the youngest, most exciting and fast-rising film events of Europe draws to a close; our editor, who witnessed it all on site, discusses the winners, his dirty favourites, and reveals a very passionate relationship between the host nation and Britain [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 30-06-2025

Warm and tender tribute to passion through music has all the ingredients of a romcom (or rather, a "bromcom"), and is guaranteed to put a smile of your face - delicious British film shows at the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-06-2025

Victor Fraga interviews the artistic director of the Mediterrane Film Festival, in Malta; they discuss the dirty secrets of programming for a nascent event, British-Maltese relations, finding the right jury, and ... erm... the weather! [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-06-2025

The director of Sex and Lucia returns with a hyperbolical allegory of Spanish history, populated with charming characters - from San Sebastian [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 29-06-2025

Alec Guinness stars in WW2 classic showcasing a horribly bombed Malta, and the Mediterranean nation's "love story" with their British colonisers - from the Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-06-2025

Vintage store owners travel to the past in order to acquire new items for their customers - ultra-British comedy is on various VoD platforms on Monday, September 29th [Read More...]

H.M. Ryan - 28-06-2025

Woman desperately runs away from mysterious danger, in this finely crafted horror with a very disappointing ending - short film shows at the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 28-06-2025

Spirited and engaging doc turns the dark depths of the sea into an enlightening lesson on humanity - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

H.M. Ryan - 28-06-2025

British singer falls in love with Maltese singer during WW2, in this charming and conventional short film - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 28-06-2025

A nightmarish dinner party intersects with other narratives, in this funny and revelatory Maltese comedy of manners - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Eoghan Lyng - 27-06-2025

Homeless man has to perform Al Jolson songs to an affluent audience before returning to the sanctuary of the streets - dirty Maltese gem shows at the Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victoria Luxford - 27-06-2025

A stranded traveller seeking shelter steps into an occult nightmare, in this impressive Canadian-Maltese horror short - from the 3rd Mediterranean Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-06-2025

Young Americans fight against climate change displacement, is this slow, quiet and sobering documentary - live from the Mediterrane Film Festival, in Malta [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 27-06-2025

Two Irish people are destined to meet, in this star-studded, boring and lame romance - in cinemas on Friday, July 18th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 26-06-2025

Danish documentarist captures the fires that castigated and scarred Galicia (in Northeastern Spain); the outcome is bewitching, if barely cognitive - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival, in Malta [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 25-06-2025

Two friends of different sex and personality embark on a road trip of Tunisia, in this feel-good youth drama from Tunisia - showing at the Mediterrane Film Festival, in Malta [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 24-06-2025

Young Moroccan woman confronts a patriarch and a society unprepared to accept her unborn baby and its non-Muslim father - from the Mediterrane Film Festival, in Malta [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 16-02-2025

James Bond meets Dario Argento, in this Franco-Belgian explosion of violence, sex and colours - from various festivals [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 14-02-2025

Mother and daughter travel to sunny Spain in order treat inexplicable illness, in Rebecca Lenkiewicz's (the screenwriter of Ida) exquisite debut - on VoD on Tuesday, August 19th [Read More...]

John Bleasdale - 04-02-2025

Igor Bezinović’s hybrid documentary takes on a key episode on the road to fascism and renders it both hilarious and terrifying - in cinemas on Friday, November 28th (also showing at the Tallinn Black Nights) [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 04-09-2024

Italian director sets out to celebrate pornography, but instead legitimises the old prejudices she aimed to denounce - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 03-09-2024

Farming villagers of Scotland grapple with meddling outsiders, in Athina Rachel Tsangari's rich new drama - from various festivals/ on VoD on Friday, August 8th [Read More...]

Victor Fraga - 21-02-2024

Five Italian women living in a Catholic institution in Venice join forces in order to confront the establishment, in this extremely cheesy and poorly acted musical - from the 3rd Mediterrane Film Festival [Read More...]