Many people I know in Motovun complain that they cannot sleep normally even a couple of days after the end of the film festival. It will take them a few more days to return to normal sleep, they tell me from their past experience. The festival takes only five days, but it is still quite disruptive on account of the loud music that goes into the wee hours day after day. The last day, it stops only at dawn. Of course, the loud music is a part of the beer and kebab festival that runs in parallel with the film festival. The two festivals have nothing in common, either. Although the beer and kebab festival has been constrained by the new municipal administration in the last three years, there is quite some way to go still to ensure that the film festival is the ultimate winner in the contest that began in 1999, the first year of the parallel festivals. The beer and kebab festival has developed on the sly over the years. It is time for the municipality to kill it once and for all. It has nothing whatsoever to do with the film festival, anyway. And the first step in killing it would be to prohibit the loud music past midnight. Period. As soon as this disruption is removed once and for all, the people I know in the hilltown will have no problem sleeping after the film festival.