The film 'Murina' by young Croatian director Antoneta Alamat Kusijanovic on Saturday won the Caméra d'Or ("Golden Camera") award of the Cannes Film Festival for the best first feature film presented in one of the Cannes' selections.

This year, there were 31 films in this category in Cannes and since Croatia’s independence, Murina is the first film to have been added to the Directors’ Fortnight section (Quinzaine des Réalisateurs in French), an independent selection of the Cannes Film Festival.

Murina is a psychological family drama set over the course of four days on one of the Croatian islands, largely inspired by the director’s multi-award-winning fiction short Into the Blue. The film was shot along the Croatian coast: the island of Hvar, the Kornati archipelago and the island of Koločep near Dubrovnik.