MFF is the oldest festival of documentary film in the region considering that only documentary films compete here and the largest part of the program is based on documentaries. This is one of the rare festivals that has money prizes for the winners of the festival and in that way helps them to create new film projects. The School of Film Culture with relevant lecturers is being organized within the very MFF. A short documentary film is created every year at the MFF workshop, which we screen at the closure of the festival.

Besides the film projections there are also other programs offered at MFF. First of all the touristic ones, where a new branch, unknown untill now in Hercegovina, is developed – the cultural tourism. Within the tourism part there are the tours visiting the most interesting sites in Hercegovina which might be used as the locations for films shooting.

Awards & Prizes

The Jury Awards

GRAND PRIX (Best feature documentary of MFF)
MFF Projector "Grand Prix" and the Money prize

BEST SHORT (Best short documentary of MFF)
MFF Projector "Best Short" and the Money prize

BEST CAMERA (The best cinematography achievement at MFF)
MFF Projector "Best Camera"
The prize is awarded by the Association of Cinematographers in Bosnia and Herzegovina (ASBH)

Audience Award

AUDIENCE AWARD (Audience Award MFF)
MFF Projector "Audience Award" and the Money prize

Rules & Terms

1. 1. General provisions

All the professional and amateur film and video authors of documentary films from the Mediterranean countries can participate in the competition. These countries are, in the alphabetical order: Albania, Algeria, Bosnia-Herzegovina, Croatia, Cyprus, Egypt, France, Greece, Israel, Italy, Lebanon, Libya, Malta, Monaco, Morocco, San Marino, Montenegro, Slovenia, Spain, Syria, Tunisia and Turkey. Every author participating can only have one film registered in the official competition. The films that have the right to participate in the competition are short documentaries up to 30 minutes and feature-length documentary films over 30 minutes. The films that have the right to participate in the In Focus programme are short documentaries up to 30 minutes.

1. 2. Rights of the organizers

The organizer guarantees that the copies of the films will not be used for commercial purposes. For the screenings of the selected works, the festival will not offer any compensation or screening fees, neither to the authors nor the producers. The organizer reserves the right to use clips from the films for presentation and marketing of the festival on the Internet and television. The organizer reserves the right of screening the films at its own retrospectives.