When on Wednesday October 18th in Palma’s Teatre Principal the twelfth edition of the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festivals will be opened, is one of the guests of honor Daniel Brühl. The German-Spanish film star, who became known for his leading role in the film “Good Bye, Lenin!” became internationally known, will personally accept the festival’s Icon Award. The founder and director of the festival, Sandra Lipskiannounced this Wednesday at the presentation of Evolution.
In an interview she gave to MM, which will be published in Thursday’s print edition, she said: “As a German-Spanish who plays in different languages, Daniel fits perfectly with Evolution’s motto of connecting people and cultures. “
Daniel Brühl will also be seen at the festival twice: on Saturday, October 21st at 9 p.m Niki Lauda in “Rush”, which is playing at the drive-in cinema in Port Adriano, and at the closing gala on Tuesday, October 24th, in Lone Scherfigs new film “The Movie Teller”, which can be seen in the Congress Palace at 8 p.m.
The Evolution Film Festival opens on October 18th at the Teatre Principal with Isabel Coixet’s new film “One Love”. The Catalan director will also be honored with the Evolution Vision Award at the start of the festival. “We’ve been inviting them for years, and funnily enough, the presentation of ‘Un amor’ now fits perfectly: the film just had its world premiere in San Sebastián,” says Lipski.
Meanwhile, another Evolution Icon Award will be announced at the closing gala Susanne Bier awarded that just one Netflix series with Nicole Kidman rotates. The day before, Bier’s film “In A Better World” will be shown, for which she received the Oscar for best foreign language film in 2011. She will then answer questions.
Another Oscar winner is the American cinematographer Erik Messerschmidt. He will be honored with the Cinematography Icon Award at the opening gala. He won the Oscar last year for his cinematography on the filming of David Fincher’s “Mank.” And festival director Lipski was proud to announce: “Netflix International is giving us ‘The Killer’, which won’t be released until November, for an exclusive screening here in Mallorca.” The film will be shown on Thursday, October 19th at 6 p.m. at the Rívoli Aficine, followed by a question and answer session with Messerschmidt.
Overall, this year’s festival will… 147 films from 25 countries run. There are 20 world and ten European premieres, 25 premieres in Spain and 25 in the Balearic Islands. Eight productions are competing for the best international feature film. In addition to the opening and closing films, these are “La Roy” by Shane Atkinson, “The Kill Room”, the directorial debut of actress and author Nicol Paone, in which Uma Thurman and Samuel L. Jackson appeared together in front of the camera again after a long time , “You Sing Loud, I Sing Louder” by Emma Westenberg with Ewan McGregor (Obi-Wan Kenobi) and his daughter Clara in the main roles, “Perfect Days” by Wim Wenders, “The Promised Land” (German version: “Der Bastard “) by Nikolaj Arcel with Mats Mikkelsen as the main actor and “The Pod Generation” by Sophie Barthes. The festival also gives an important place to debut films and productions from the Balearic Islands.
2023-10-04 19:58:40
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