Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest starts its 12th edition this Sunday, which will be held both on the Mediterranean island, from 24 to 31 July, and online via Filmin, from 24 July to 24 August. Jaume Ripoll, director of the festival and co-founder of the platform, stated at its presentation a few days ago that this year it will feature an Official Section, with a prize for the best film worth €10,000. This section, aimed at young audiences, will include a selection of feature films that will relate to the dilemmas and conflicts of the new generations.

Among its various titles are: Magnetic Beasts [+lire aussi :
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interview : Vincent Maël Cardona
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interview : Francesco Costabile
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fiche film], from the Ukrainian filmmaker imprisoned by Putin Oleg Sentsov, a portrait of the gangster scene in his country in the 1990’s; The Hill Where Lionesses Roar [+lire aussi :
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interview : Luana Bajrami
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interview : Vincent Le Port
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interview : Aleksandra Terpińska
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interview : Samuel Theis
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interview : Lorenz Merz
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interview : Andrius Blaževičius
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The Balearic film festival will also include a special section on the conflict in Ukraine with special screenings, retrospectives and debates. The 5th edition of the Atlàntida Mallorca Talent Lab will take place as part of the festival, a commitment to young talent, where they will be able to develop a feature film under the guidance of experts and enjoy the largest prizes from Spanish creative labs, up to €40,000 for fiction projects and €15,000 for documentaries.

Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest will also present three Masters of Cinema awards: to Irish filmmaker Neil Jordan, who will receive the award at the opening gala of the festival’s twelfth edition and will give a special screening of The Crying Game to mark the 30th anniversary of its premiere; to the great French actress Isabelle Huppert (at the closing gala); and to the Ukrainian director, Sergei Loznitsa, whose latest feature film will be screened, The Natural History of Destruction [+lire aussi :
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Mallorca will also welcome major figures in European culture: filmmakers such as the Catalan Albert Serra, who will present Pacifiction [+lire aussi :
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interview : Albert Serra
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fiche film], a look at the last days of an elderly couple; Kike Maíllo will present his documentary El falsificador, on Oswald Aulestia Bach, one of the greatest art forgers in history; and the French Alain Guiraudie will present Nobody’s Hero [+lire aussi :
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interview : Alain Guiraudie
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All festival sections, concerts and activities can be viewed on its website.