Beaches of Agnes win Split Med Fest
The 2nd Split Festival of Mediterranean Film in Croatia (May 25-30) ended with Agnes Varda's autobiographical documentary The Beaches of Agnes [+see also:
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The jury – which consisted of US video artist Shelly Silver; Australian writer, professor, curator and experimental filmmaker David Teh; and renowned Croatian cinematographer Mirko Pivcevic – awarded the best short film award to Spain's Five Days in September by Fran Araujo and Manuel Burque.
Although the second half of the festival was marred by some rain and wind, Split audiences flocked to the festival’s open-air cinema on the beach to see the competition titles, which included Javier Fesser's Camino [+see also:
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The festival closed with an out-of-competition screening of Croatian documentary Independence Day by Vinko Bresan.
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