{"id":2421,"date":"2026-05-27T20:19:00","date_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:19:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/2026\/05\/27\/maltas-mediterrane-film-festival-lineup-features-films-by-steven-soderbergh-and-gus-van-sant\/"},"modified":"2026-05-27T20:19:00","modified_gmt":"2026-05-27T20:19:00","slug":"maltas-mediterrane-film-festival-lineup-features-films-by-steven-soderbergh-and-gus-van-sant","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/2026\/05\/27\/maltas-mediterrane-film-festival-lineup-features-films-by-steven-soderbergh-and-gus-van-sant\/","title":{"rendered":"Malta\u2019s Mediterrane Film Festival Lineup Features Films by Steven Soderbergh and Gus Van Sant"},"content":{"rendered":"
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\tThe fourth installment of the Malta Film Commission<\/a>\u2019s Mediterrane Film Festival<\/a> is nearly ready to roll.<\/p>\n

\tFestival directors Pierre Agius and Mark Adams have assembled a selection, anchored by the theme \u201cBeyond Together,\u201d\u00a0that includes recent films from directors like Steven Soderbergh<\/a>, Alice Winocour<\/a>, Gus Van Sant<\/a>, Mark Jenkin<\/a>, Karim Ainouz<\/a>\u00a0and\u00a0Olivier Assayas starring the likes of\u00a0Angelina Jolie,\u00a0Charli 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\u00a0and more. \t<\/p>\n

\tSet to take place on the island\u2019s 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.<\/p>\n

\tThe Big Screen Competition will feature Soderbergh\u2019s art forgery drama, The Christophers<\/em>, starring Ian McKellen and Michaela Coel, Alice Winocour\u2019s fashion drama Couture<\/em> starring Jolie, Van Sant\u2019s hostage thriller Dead Man\u2019s Wire<\/em> with Skarsgard and Domingo, the Charli XCX-fronted mockumentary The Moment<\/em>, and Jenkin\u2019s drama Rose of Nevada <\/em>starring MacKay and Turner, Ainouz\u2019s Rosebush Pruning <\/em>starring Turner, Fanning, Anderson, Jamie Bell and Riley Keough, Virginia Woolf\u2019s Night and Day <\/em>starring Haley Bennett, Jack Whitehall, Lily Allen, Jennifer Saunders and Timothy Spall, and Assayas\u2019 The Wizard of the Kremlin<\/em> starring Dano, Vikander, Tom Sturridge, Will Keen, Jeffrey Wright and Law. \t<\/p>\n

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\t \t\t\t\t\tCharli XCX appears in The Moment<\/em> by Aidan Zamiri<\/span> \t\t \t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\tCourtesy of Sundance<\/cite> \t\t\t\t\t \t<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n<\/p><\/div>\n

\tThe Mediterrane Competition includes Maryam Touzani\u2019s Calle Malaga<\/em>, Leyla Bouzid\u2019s In a Whisper<\/em>, Nicolangelo Gelormini\u2019s La Gioia<\/em>, Minos Papas\u2019s Motherwitch<\/em>, Micha Wald\u2019s A Survivor\u2019s Tale<\/em>, Yasser Shafiey\u2019s Complaint No. 713317<\/em>, Maltese psychological drama Vanitas<\/em>, set on the island of Gozo, and Sylvain Chomet\u2019s animated A Magnificent Life<\/em>. <\/p>\n

\tThe New World Cinema section has drafted Kiah Roache-Turner\u2019s Beast of War<\/em>, which was shot in Malta, Mario Martone\u2019s Fuori<\/em>, Anders Thomas Jensen\u2019s The Last Viking<\/em> starring Mads Mikkelsen and Nikolaj Lie Kaas, Ben Wheatley\u2019s Normal<\/em> starring Bob Odenkirk, The Good Boy<\/em> (aka Heel<\/em>) starring Stephen Graham, Anson Boon and Andrea Riseborough, Larry Yang\u2019s The Shadow\u2019s Edge<\/em> with Jackie Chan and Tony Leung Ka-fai, James Lucas\u2019s Moss & Freud<\/em>, and Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard\u2019s Broken English<\/em> documentary about Marianne Faithfull.<\/p>\n

\tThe Mare Nostrum section features Jeanie Finlay\u2019s All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea<\/em>, Valentin Paoli\u2019s The Musician and the Whale<\/em>, Tamara Kotevska\u2019s The Tale of Silyan<\/em>, Ed Sayers\u2019 Super Nature<\/em> and Sara Dosa\u2019s Time and Water.<\/em><\/p>\n

\tCompetition titles will be screened by a jury of creatives tasked with selecting the winners of the Golden Bee Awards, which will be doled out at a gala on June 28. Ticket sales for all screenings will be donated to the local Maltese cancer charity Puttinu Cares. More information on the Mediterrane Film Festival can be found here<\/a>.<\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

The fourth installment of the Malta Film Commission\u2019s Mediterrane Film Festival is nearly ready to roll. Festival directors Pierre Agius and Mark Adams have assembled a selection, anchored by the theme \u201cBeyond Together,\u201d\u00a0that includes recent films from directors like Steven Soderbergh, Alice Winocour, Gus Van Sant, Mark Jenkin, Karim Ainouz\u00a0and\u00a0Olivier Assayas starring the likes of\u00a0Angelina Jolie,\u00a0Charli 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\u00a0and more. Set to take place on the island\u2019s capital city of Valletta from June 21-28, the Mediterrane Film Festival has expanded from three to five strands with a total […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":2422,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"tdm_status":"","tdm_grid_status":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[1490,1491,2,1492,1493,1494,1495,27,60,1496],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-2421","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-alice-winocour","category-gus-van-sant","category-hollywood","category-karim-ainouz","category-malta-film-commission","category-mark-jenkin","category-mediterrane-film-festival","category-movie-news","category-movies","category-steven-soderbergh"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2421"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2421\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/2422"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2421"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2421"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/newsmag.live\/ja\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2421"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}