The Palma Mountain Film Festival will celebrate its 17th edition from October 19th to 27th with nine days of cinema, adventures, and reflection on the landscapes and challenges of the mountains. The program includes the world premiere of Hatua, about Mix Manresa's expedition to Kilimanjaro with an adaptive bicycle, the presentation of the ascent of Yerupajá by alpinists Marc Toralles and Bru Busom, and a look at the Serra de Tramuntana through two Mallorcan filmmakers.

Actress Diane Kruger will be one of the protagonists of the 15th Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF), which will take place from October 28th to November 4th. The event will grant her the Evolution Icon Award in recognition of a career that has connected European cinema with Hollywood, with titles such as Troy, National Treasure and Inglourious Basterds. Over eight days, the festival will screen more than 140 films and documentaries in 13 locations in Mallorca and expects to bring together more than 8,000 attendees.

Like so many other young people born in the eighties, she grew up with series such as Sesame Street, David the Gnome, Full House and Around the World in 80 Days; and with the films Back to the Future, The Sound of Music and Mary Poppins, which she watched over and over again. A particularity of her home, however, is that both her father and her mother were great film buffs (and readers), so they also habitually watched films by Chaplin, the Marx brothers, Woody Allen, Bergman, and Italian and American classics. All these stimuli made that “shy girl” spend part of her early years curious about the great questions of humanity: who we are and where we come from, how big the universe is, death. Marga Melià Rigo (Palma, 1982), “restless and curious,” is still looking for answers. Her lifelong friend Deborah Florit tells us about it.

Supporting Paradise is a literary and cinematographic work that has already accumulated several lives. The publisher Lunwerg published the first edition of this book of conversations with twenty Majorcan artists in 2011 and now Lleonard Muntaner has reissued it. The documentary, premiered this 2026 at the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest, recovers interviews filmed in 2012 to portray the loss of identity, the destruction of the territory and the contradictions of tourist Mallorca. The film confronts those warnings with the gaze of a new generation of creators. We talk about it with the director about the creative process, about cinema as a space for dialogue and about the defeat, the indignation and the hope that cross the social context in which it has been premiered.

The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival (EMIFF) will celebrate its 15th edition from October 28th to November 4th, 2026, and has announced the main awards and protagonists of the event at a preliminary act held at the INNSiDE Calviá Beach hotel.

In the summer of 1967, Michael Caine arrived in Portals Vells to shoot a film set in Greece. It was not the initial plan. The Magus, the film adaptation of the novel by John Fowles, was supposed to bring to the screen a story set on a remote Greek island, but the political instability caused by the coup of the colonels forced the production to seek an alternative. It found it in Mallorca.

The Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest (AMFF) has closed its online edition on Filmin with 1,575,000 views, 5% more than in 2025. This figure completes the balance of a 16th edition that has also broken attendance records in Mallorca, with more than 53,500 spectators.

The documentary Mallorca, a recipe book, directed by Majorcan Pablo Bujosa Rodríguez, will close the Culinary Cinema section of the San Sebastián festival with a tour of various towns on the island to reclaim traditional Majorcan cuisine and the gastronomic knowledge passed down from generation to generation.The film, which will premiere at the festival on September 25, focuses on a way of understanding cuisine linked to the territory, seasonal products, and family recipes. According to the film's synopsis, "cooking has never been a neutral act." "One places oneself in front of the fire when hungry, but not only with the intention of satisfying hunger: there is always a little more behind this exercise," it continues. "When we think of a recipe, we do so from a specific place, incorporating who we are, what we have been taught. And when we execute it, we do so respecting rituals we have seen repeated for years," it concludes.

The Mallorcan production Un passeig pel Born, directed by Mallorcan Nick Igea, has won the award for best European film at the Bretagne International Film Festival, in France. With this recognition, the film has accumulated 48 international awards obtained at festivals organized in cities such as Vienna, Sydney, London, Paris, Florence, New York, and Los Angeles.

The film Lionel, by Carlos Saiz, has been the big winner of the 16th edition of the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest, which this Sunday lowered the curtain after registering its most massive edition. The festival also honored the French composer Alexandre Desplat, winner of two Oscars and distinguished with the Master of Cinema award for a career that includes soundtracks such as The Grand Budapest Hotel and The Shape of Water.

Javier Bardem defended this Sunday in Palma that people with public projection should express their opinion on major current debates. “Whoever has a loudspeaker, should do it. I don't demand it from anyone, but if you can, it's good to do it”, he stated during the presentation ofThe loved one at the'Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest. The actor has justified this position, in addition to ensuring that “silence always encourages those who perpetrate crimes”.

“I think I can be the voice of my generation… Or at least a voice of a generation” is the most iconic phrase of the character Hannah Horvath in Girls, the series written by and starring Lena Dunham, which is already one of the best generational narratives of the early 21st century. In the case of Mallorca, in the midst of the 2020s, a whole host of young artists are giving voice to their generation. Anna Picornell, Miquel Mas, Lluïsa Febrer, Josep Alorda, and Mariona Jaume are five of them. With music, theater, drawing, cinema, and dance, respectively, they capture their Zeitgeist (the spirit of an era, in German). The moment they have to live through – like Hannah – grants them this fair dose of enthusiasm, marked by a realism that doesn't quite become pessimistic, and a need to define themselves shaped by social media.

A setting, a laptop with a webcam, and an hour of live chat with random people. With these ingredients and the premise of adapting the dramaturgy and choreography based on the conversations, Lluís Garau (La Torre, 1997) created The Meat in 2022, a performance interpreted entirely by him. His obsessions – the internet and identity shaped by algorithms – have led him to this “painful” process of stepping into the shoes of a cybersex addict. After receiving accolades such as the Oscar Wilde Award at the Dublin Theatre Festival, he turned The Meat in film, to go beyond the cybercruising. Directed by Joan Porcel, this thriller documentary has just won two Silver Biznagas in Malaga. It will be screened for the first time in Mallorca at the Atlàntida Film Festival.

About fifty people have participated in the creation of The Last Day of May: The Other Heroes, a short film linked to the events of May 31, 1550, and premiered this week in Pollença as part of the events leading up to the Patrona festival. The production, directed by Martí Pallicer, recovers a lesser-known part of that historical episode and focuses on characters who, despite having existed, are not part of the most popular narrative of the festival.

Toni Bestard (Bunyola, 1973) has about twenty audiovisual projects under his belt, including the series Norats and Fúria and feature films such as Pullman, I Am Your Father and El perfecto desconocido. In 2017 he directed the short documentary El somni efímer, a piece that now closes the exhibition Palma, ciutat de cines, dedicated to the old cinemas of the City, which can be seen at La Misericòrdia. On the occasion of this re-release, he talks with ARA Balears about cinema, memory and new projects.

Palma's cinemas haven't always been promoted with digitally printed posters or illuminated screens. For decades, large hand-painted posters announcing the week's new releases adorned the facades of many theaters. Behind many of those monumental images was the same name: Rafael Ruiz. Now, his work is being brought back to mind with the exhibition Palma, city of cinemaswhich can be seen at the Misericordia cultural center. Among other historical documents, the exhibition includes original material from the poster artist and the documentary The ephemeral dreamDirected by Toni Bestard.