The fourth installment of the Malta Film Commission’s Mediterrane Film Festival is nearly ready to roll.
Festival directors Pierre Agius and Mark Adams have assembled a selection, anchored by the theme “Beyond Together,” that includes recent films from directors like Steven Soderbergh, Alice Winocour, Gus Van Sant, Mark Jenkin, Karim Ainouz and Olivier Assayas starring the likes of Angelina Jolie, Charli XCX, George MacKay, Callum Turner, Elle Fanning, Pamela Anderson, Paul Dano, Alicia Vikander, Jude Law, Ian McKellen, Michaela Coel, Al Pacino, Bill Skarsgard, Colman Domingo and more.
Set to take place on the island’s capital city of Valletta from June 21-28, the Mediterrane Film Festival has expanded from three to five strands with a total of 35 films selected: Big Screen Competition featuring the best of mainstream cinema, Mediterranean Competition featuring new cinema from the Mediterranean region with a spotlight on local stories and talent, Mare Nostrum for films with an environmental message, New World Cinema, and Malta Focus for specifically local films (shorts and features) that highlight island talent.
The Big Screen Competition will feature Soderbergh’s art forgery drama, The Christophers, starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, Alice Winocour’s fashion drama Couture starring Jolie, Van Sant’s hostage thriller Dead Man’s Wire with Skarsgard and Domingo, the Charli XCX-fronted mockumentary The Moment, and Jenkin’s drama Rose of Nevada starring MacKay and Turner, Ainouz’s Rosebush Pruning starring Turner, Fanning, Anderson, Jamie Bell and Riley Keough, Virginia Woolf’s Night and Day starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall, and Assayas’ The Wizard of the Kremlin starring Dano, Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, Jeffrey Wright and Law.
