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The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, running from October 18 to 24 in the Spanish island’s capital of Palma, has unveiled its full line-up.
The festival will open with Spanish director Isabel Coixet’s new feature Un Amor, which recently world premiered at San Sebastian.
Coixet will also be feted with the festival’s Evolution Vision Award at the opening night ceremony.
Other honorees will include German-Spanish actor Daniel Brühl, best known for his roles in Goodbye Lenin, Rush and The Alienist, and Danish writer and director Susanne Bier, whose recent credits include The Night Manager and The First Lady.
They will both receive Evolution Icon awards while there will also be screenings of Brühl’s most recent film The Movie Teller, as the closing film, and Rush and Bier’s 2010 feature In A Better World, which won the Best International Feature Film Oscar.
The 12th edition marks the festival’s largest selection to date with 140 titles screening across sections which include the International Feature Film Competition, Debut Feature Film Competition, the Made in Baleares (MIB) Feature Film Competition and the Drive In Cinema strand.
Further highlights include Spanish premieres for Nicole Paone’s The Kill Room, Emma Westenberg’s You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder and Sophie Barthes’ The Pod Generation. There will also be a special spotlight screening of David Fincher’s The Killer in collaboration with Netflix.
Best International Feature Film Oscar entries Wim Wenders’ Perfect Days (Japan) and Nikolaj Arcel’s The Promised Land (Denmark) also feature in the program.
Highlights of the industry program include a panel discussing the merits and pitfalls of casting and producing – with casting directors Luci Lenox and Iris Baumüller as well as actress and producer Rosie Fellner and The Promised Land producer Louise Vesth, and the festival’s annual Women In Leadership discussion with IFC Films Head Of Distribution Nicole Weis, Paone, Fellner and producer Nurhan Sekerci-Porst.
Local film company Palma Pictures will also run a locations tour of the island which has recently hosted the shoots of The Crown, The Mallorca Films and Special Ops: Lioness.
2023 Selection
International Feature Film
Un Amor (Sp)
Dir. Isabel Coixet
The Movie Teller (Fr-Sp-Chile)
Dir. Lone Scherfig
The Kill Room (US)
Dir. Nicole Paone
You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder (US)
Dir. Emma Westenberg
LaRoy (US)
Dir. Shane Atkinson
Perfect Days (Jp- Ger)
Dir. Wim Wenders
The Promised Land (Dk-Sw-Nor-Ger)
Dir. Nikolaj Arcel
The Pod Generation (UK)
Dir. Sophie Barthes
Debut Feature Films
The First Two (Hu)
Dir. Balázs Szövényi-Lux
Six Weeks (Hu)
Dir. Noémi Veronika Szakonyi
The Young Arsonists (Can)
Dir. Sheila Pye
Made in Baleares Feature Film Competition
Tomorrow Somewhere by The Sea (Ger)
Dir. Patrick Büchting
Beach House (Sp)
Dir. Hèctor Hernández Vicens
Spotlight Screenings
The Killer (US)
Dir. David Fincher
In a Better World (Dk, Sw)
Dir. Susanne Bier
Rush (UK, US)
Dir. Ron Howard
Documentary Feature Films
Sloane: A Jazz Singer (US)
Dir. Michael Lippert
I am Not (Isr)
Dir. Tomer Heymann
Earthbound: Nzambi Matee (Jp)
Dir. Farhoud Meybodi
Oceans Oblivion (Fr-Mon-Sp)
Dir. Mirella R. Abrisqueta
Made In Baleares Documentary Features
I Punk (Sp)
Dir. Dani Cuesta
Maria and the Lost Movie (Sp)
Dirs: Núria Abad Rivas, Marta Hierro Bravo
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