2025 Mediterrane Film Festival Sets Full Lineup, Panels and Programs

The third installment of Malta’s Mediterrane Movie Pageant now formally has a lineup.

Set to happen in Valletta, the island’s capital, from June 21-29, the competition has confirmed greater than 40 movies from 20 international locations, set a collection of masterclass shows that includes filmmakers like Joe Carnahan and Catherine Hardwicke, and locked a Golden Bee Lifetime Achievement Award honoree in Jeremy Thomas, founding father of Recorded Image Firm.

The ten movies making up the primary competitors are as follows: Uberto Pasolini’s The Return starring The English Affected person vets Ralph Fiennes and Juliette Binoche; Rebecca Lenkiewicz’s directorial debut, Scorching Milk, tailored from the novel by Deborah Levy and starring Vicky Krieps and Emma Mackey; Guido Chiesa’s For the Love of a Girl; Athina Rachel Tsangari’s Harvest based mostly on the novel by Jim Crace; Maltese director Joshua Cassar Gaspar’s The Theft of the Caravaggio; Amel Guellaty’s The place The Wind Comes From a couple of younger couple’s street journey by means of Tunisia; Igor Bezinović’s meta documentary Fiume o Morte!; Seloua El Gouni’s The Wound; Hélène Cattet and Bruno Forzani’s style thriller Reflection in a Lifeless Diamond; and Julio Medem’s 8.

Titles plucked to display out of competitors on the Mediterrane Movie Pageant embrace Ira Sachs’ Sundance Movie Pageant debut Peter Hujar’s Day starring Ben Whishaw, Rebecca Corridor; Malta-set erotic thriller Compulsion by Neil Marshall starring and co-written by Charlotte Kirk; Polly Steele’s 4 Letters of Love starring Pierce Brosnan, Helena Bonham Carter and Gabriel Byrne; Chris Studying’s Time Journey is Harmful starring Johnny Vegas, Jane Horrocks, Sophie Thompson and Mark Heap and narrated by Stephen Fry; Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard’s The Extraordinary Miss Flower starring Icelandic singer-songwriter Emilíana Torrini; James Griffith’s The Ballad of Wallis Island starring Tom Basden, Carey Mulligan and Tim Key; Andrew Ahn’s The Marriage ceremony Banquet starring Lily Gladstone, Bowen Yang, Kelly Marie Tran and Joan Chen; the Jakarta-set post-war interval thriller Love is a Battlefield; Piotr Winiewicz’s experimental movie A few Hero, which mixes synthetic intelligence and the work of German auteur Werner Herzog together with his permission.

The 2025 Mediterrane Movie Pageant additionally incorporates a sidebar curated in collaboration with FilmItalia that celebrates new Italian feminine filmmakers: Giulia Louise Steigerwalt’s porn-meets-politics retelling in Diva Futura starring Pietro Castellitto, Barbara Ronchi and Denise Capezza; Margherita Vicario’s rousing musical Gloria! a couple of group of confined younger girls in 18th century Venice; and Maria Grazia Perria’s Love and Glory — The Lengthy Deledda concerning the lifetime of Sardinian novelist Grazia Deledda.

In different sidebar information, the competition’s Mare Nostrum part, which is curated round themes of local weather and environmentalism, will characteristic Sandra Winther’s Lowland Youngsters concerning the final two youngsters on Louisiana’s Isle de Jean Charles; Eleanor Mortimer’s How Deep is Your Love about undiscovered sea creatures amid the specter of sea mining; Pia Marais’ Amazon jungle-set Transamazonia; Léo Favier’s Miyazaki: Spirit of Nature concerning the life and works of Japanese animator Hayao Miyazaki; David Baute’s animated Black Butterflies; and Robin Petré’s Solely on Earth about Galicia, considered one of Europe’s most wildfire-prone areas, and its impression on horses.

As beforehand reported, this yr’s jury contains Hardwicke (Twilight), Oscar successful manufacturing designer Rick Carter (Avatar), costume designer Charlese Antoinette (Air), set decorator Elli Griff (Napoleon), manufacturing designer James Worth (Poor Issues), Maltese director Mario Philip Azzopardi (ZOS: Zone of Separation). The jury will decide the recipients of the Golden Bee Awards, an inventory that shall be unveiled at a gala on June 29.

Along with classes with Carnahan and Hardwicke, the competition’s masterclass shows may also characteristic jury members Carter and Griff, lifetime achievement award honoree Thomas, and Amazon Unique Motion pictures head of bodily manufacturing Glenn Gainor.

This yr’s competition is being curated with the theme “We Are Movie,” which is supposed to be a mirrored image of the competition’s mission to unite creators and audiences in honoring the common language of movie. It additionally very a lot aligns with a serious Malta milestone: 2025 marks 100 years of filmmaking within the space, courting again to its first characteristic movie, 1925’s Sons of the Sea. Within the century since, it has grow to be a scorching manufacturing hub because of its structure, landscapes and water-based amenities at Malta Movie Studios. Motion pictures which were shot within the space embrace Gladiator, Troy, Sport of Thrones, Napoleon and plenty of extra.

“As we have fun 100 years of filmmaking in Malta, we’re honored to welcome an distinctive panel of judges who mirror the depth, variety, and international attain of latest cinema. Along with our competition curator, Mark Adams, we’re dedicated to shaping a program that not solely honors Malta’s cinematic previous but in addition champions daring new voices from throughout the Mediterranean and past,” mentioned competition director Ray Calleja.

Added Malta movie commissioner Johann Grech: “The Mediterrane Movie Pageant was born from a easy but highly effective thought — to attach artistic minds from the Mediterranean and throughout Europe and rework their concepts into actuality. We stand for alternative, collaboration and creativity.”

Extra details about this yr’s Mediterrane Movie Pageant and its lineup will be discovered here.