Argentinian filmmaker Luis Ortega’s Venice title Kill The Jockey, German filmmaker Nora Fingscheidt’s The Outrun starring Saoirse Ronan and a series of special spotlight screenings including Stephen Frears’ The Grifters and Damon Gameau’s climate-change documentary 2040 are among the titles that will screen at the 13th edition of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF).
Alonso Ruizpalacios’ La Cocina will open the festival on October 30, while Thomas Napper’s Widow Clicquot, the biopic of the grand dame of champagne, Veuve Clicquot, starring Haley Bennett and Tom Sturridge, will close it on November 5.
Annette Bening will collect the Evolution Icon award on the opening night of the festival and attend a screening of The Grifters. Danish DoP Anthony Dod Mantle will receive this year’s Evolution Cinematography Icon award, while German actress Emilia Schüle is the recipient of the 2024 Evolution New Talent nod.
Eighteen films will screen in the main international feature competition, while there are also programmes for debut feature, Made in Baleares (MIB) feature and Made in Baleares (MIB) documentary.
Additional Spanish premieres include Frida Kempff’s biographical sports drama The Swedish Torpedo, which will play in competition in the international features section; while debut features will include Benjamin Pfohl’s Jupiter and Tyler Nilson and Michael Schwartz’s coming-of-age story Los Frikis.
This year’s Spotlight sidebar boasts a feature-length episode of Der Tatort – Colonius, the long-running German police procedural drama; and a special screening of Joker: Folie à Deux with a post-screening Q&A with DoP Larry Sher.
New for 2024 is Conscious Cinema - EMIFF and The Mallorca Preservation Foundation present the first Environmental Film Series. Cine Consciente is described as a space for encounters and reflection, and a platform dedicated to exploring and highlighting the most urgent challenges facing the planet, using film as a vehicle for awareness-raising and social transformation.
Evolution Mallorca 2024 line-up
International competition
La Cocina (Mexico)
Dir: Alonso Ruizpalacios
Los Frikis (Argentina)
Dir: Tyler Nilson, Michael Schwartz
Kill the Jockey (Argentina)
Dir: Luis Ortega
The Swedish Torpedo (Denmark)
Dir: Frida Kempff
The Outrun (UK-Ger)
Dir: Nora Fingscheidt
The Girls at the Station (Spain)
Dir: Juana Macías Alba
Debut competition
Where the Silence Passes (Spain)
Dir: Sandra Romero
Widow Clicquot (UK-Canada)
Dir: Thomas Napper
Jupiter (Germany)
Dir: Benjamin Pfohl
Mai Parlarem De Nosaltres (Spain)
Dir: Raimon Valls
Documentary competition
2073 (UK)
Dir: Asif Kapadia
Flying Hands (Spain)
Dir: Paula Iglesias, Marta Gómez
Porcelain War (Ukraine)
Dir: Slava Leontyev, Brendan Bellomo
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