The 10 must-sees of the Atlantis Film Fest

PalmGuillem Miró's new film, a black comedy titled Mario which tells the story of a seemingly perfect young man who turns out not to be so perfect, is just one of the locally produced projects included in this year's Atlantis program, 30% of which are local productions. The festival will also host the premiere of the documentary Baaldo, a pop emergency, by David Álvarez López, July 31, and Stick out your chest, by Rubén Capilla and Àlex Rodríguez, with the testimony of eight women diagnosed with breast cancer, which can be seen on the 28th. Also screened, in this case on July 29, is Miguel Eek's new film, Paper shelters, focusing on the life hidden among the shelves of libraries. "As a child, my father took me every week to 'check out books,' a ritual that, almost forty years later, I still repeat with my daughter," explains Eek, who defines the documentary as "a choral story about intimacy."

In addition, the program will include the Balearic Islands premiere of Prohibited from winning Eurovision, a documentary by Marcos Cabotà about the musical group DNash, and Compass of silence, a portrait of Jean Marie del Moral and his relationship with Miquel Barceló signed by Cesc Mulet, as well as different sessions of Balearic short films that will take place at CineCiutat.

One of the highlights of the program also has a link to the Balearic Islands, which will take place on the evening of Friday, August 1: the screening of the documentary The designer is dead, by Gonzalo Hergueta, which reviews the career of Mallorcan designer Miguel Adrover, who went from success and international recognition to seeking refuge and silence in a corner of Mallorca. Other highlights of the eighth edition of Atlántida in Palma—the fifteenth on the Filmin platform—include Celine Song's new film, Materialists, and Put your hand on your soul and walk, a documentary by Iranian Sepideh Farsi starring Palestinian photojournalist Fatima Hassouna, who died in an Israeli attack shortly after completing filming, which will be screened on Thursday the 31st at the Misericordia. The festival will close on Sunday, August 3rd, with the Balearic Islands premiere ofThe song of the hands, a documentary directed by María Valverde in which conductor Gustavo Dudamel guides three deaf musicians from Venezuela in the interpretation of Fidelio, Beethoven's only opera.