The 11th Mediterranean Film Festival Split (FMFS) will be held in that coastal city on June 7-16, featuring regional and Croatian premieres of films that have already been noticed at famous film festivals around the world.

Among the films to be shown are Il Colore Nascosto Delle Cose (Emma) by Italian director Silvio Soldini, the first musical depicting mafia Ammore e malavita (Love and Bullets) by Antonio and Marco Manetti, and Sicilian Ghost Story by Antonio Piazza and Fabio Grassadonia, which had its premiere at Cannes.

The festival also features The Reports On Sarah And Saleem by Palestinian Muayad Alayan, which depicts a forbidden love affair between an Israeli woman and a Palestinian man and which won two awards in Rotterdam, the Syrian-Lebanese documentary Of Father And Sons by Talal Derki, which has received awards around the world, including the Jury Prize at the Sundance Film Festival, and Kelebekler (Butterflies) by Turkish director Tolga Karacelik, also one of the films awarded at the Sundance Film Festival.

The Spanish film is represented by Handia (Giant), for which Jon Garrano and Aitor Arregi won ten Goya awards and the Jury Award at San Sebastian, and Chien (Dog) by Samuel Benchetrit.

The festival also features Oiktos (Pity) by Greek director Babis Makridis.

The festival’s audience will also have a chance to see Sebastian Lelio’s Una mujer fantastica (A Fantastic Woman), the Academy Award winner for Best Foreign Film, as well as the French-Lebanese film L’insulte (The Insult) by Ziad Doueiri, which competed for the same award.