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Palma.—The second edition of the international film festival Maremostra will start on Saturday May 4th at the Teatre Principal in Palma with screenings in English, Spanish and Catalan.

This year's theme will be the sea and its relation with other activities such as environmental health, sports, gastronomy, science, commercial cinema and political activism.

At a press conference in Port Adriano, festival directors Cristina Gomez, Alvaro Iglesias and Angel Puig announced some of the main changes for this year's programme.

Full length films will be accompanied by “Windows Phone Short Clips” and live cooking competitions, presentations, press conferences, concerts, work shops and “Cientific coffee shops” and meeting points for investigators, producers, chefs, sports fans and the general public.

Film fans will have the opportunity to see productions like Fish Fight, The Whale, Sharks of lost island, Beyond pollution or Surfing with sharks, Chasing Mavericks, Raw and Big Miracle all of them award winning movies which will delight most water sports enthusiasts and those concerned with the protection and management of the marine environment.

The event, supported this year by the San Francisco Ocean Film and Sitges festival will be based mainly at the Es Baluard Museum of Contemporary and Modern Art and Cineciutat (on the 8th only) and at the Teatre Principal where the award for best Balearic production and closing ceremony on the 11th will take place.

Prices range from two euros per movie apart from the first and last which will cost four. For more information go to www.maremostra.com.