The 2025 version of the Mediterrane Film Festival is falling into focus.

The third installment of the competition — scheduled to happen in Valletta, Malta from June 21-29 — has reeled in a jury that features filmmaker Catherine Hardwicke (Twilight), Oscar profitable 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 will probably be unveiled at a gala, on June 29.

The Mediterrane Film Festival, which is below the route of a brand new inventive workforce in competition director Ray Calleja and curator Mark Adams, options three pillars of programming: primary competitors (movies from throughout the Mediterranean), out of competitors (world alternatives) and Mare Nostrum or Our Sea (movies devoted to sustainability and environmental themes). The latter’s jury contains Grainne Humphreys, a longtime inventive director of the Dublin Film Festival, and Ania Trzebiatowska, a senior programmer on the Sundance Film Festival.

Past the fest’s public screenings, programming will even embrace panels, roundtables and masterclasses from notable business expertise. Jury member Hardwicke will probably be pulling double responsibility this 12 months as she’s already been booked for a filmmaker dialogue in assist of her movie, Lords of Dogtown, which may have a twentieth anniversary screening. Previous audio system embrace Mike Leigh, editor Yorgos Mavropsaridis (Poor Issues), Oscar-winning manufacturing designer Nathan Crowley (Depraved), casting director Margery Simkin (Prime Gun) and composer Simon Franglen (Avatar: The Method of Water).

This 12 months’s competition is being curated with the theme “We Are Film,” 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, relationship again to its first function movie, 1925’s Sons of the Sea. Within the century since, it has turn out to be a scorching manufacturing hub due to its structure, landscapes and water-based amenities at Malta Film Studios. Motion pictures which have shot within the space embrace Gladiator, Troy, Recreation of Thrones, Napoleon and many extra.

“As we have a good time 100 years of filmmaking in Malta, we’re honored to welcome an distinctive panel of judges who replicate the depth, range, and world 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,” stated Calleja in an announcement.

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