In January 2007, the British newspaper The Guardian described the festival as "a cross between Glastonbury and Sundance.

[4] The 2011 festival, which was supposed to be its 13th edition, was re-numbered by organizers as the 14th, in order to skip the unlucky number 13.

For the 2022 festival, the last one held exclusively in Motovun, the skipped numbering was abandoned, so that it was officially designated 24th as well.

[1] The screenings at Petehovac were branded "Cinehill," in reference to the informal nickname given to the original MFF event, as the "hill of films."

Renamed Cinehill Propeller after the festival's rebranding in 2023 and move to its new location in the Gorski Kotar mountains in 2024.