The ninth edition of AMFF’s project lab once again turns Mallorca into a meeting point for some of the most exciting emerging voices in Spanish cinema.
This year, eleven feature film projects in development will take part in an intensive programme of mentoring sessions, specialised workshops, pitch sessions and one-to-one meetings with international producers, distributors, programmers and sales agents.
Over several days, the selected teams will work alongside some of the most relevant professionals in today’s audiovisual industry: Marisa Fernández Armenteros (Los domingos), Ariadna Dot (Creatura, Polvo serán), Sandra Tapia (As bestas, Robot Dreams), Manuel Monzón (The Bookshop) and Nadine Rothschild (Triangle of Sadness).
They will be joined by names such as Octavia Peissel — longtime producer for Wes Anderson —, writer and SXSW London Head of Programming Anna Bogutskaya, and María Zamora, National Cinematography Award winner and producer of Carla Simón’s films.
This edition also welcomes names that are very much shaping today’s cultural conversation and who will join us in Mallorca. AMTL 2026 hosts the directorial debuts of Mariang Maturana — creator, screenwriter and co-host of La Pija y la Quinqui — and Juan Manuel Montilla “El Langui”, actor, musician and two-time Goya Award winner.
The selected projects
The eleven selected projects move across genres, generations and very different obsessions: from digital thrillers to rural queer stories, films about memory, urban peripheries and internet-shaped adolescences.
Jarabo Spanish Psycho, by Mariang Maturana, revisits the figure of infamous serial killer José María Jarabo and the dark imagery of Francoist Madrid.
La jaula, directed by El Langui, follows two brothers surviving through underground fights and precarious living conditions.
Alois, by Fernando Nagore, imagines the final summer of a 22-year-old diagnosed with early-onset Alzheimer’s.
Cupido y otros arqueros, by Erik Rodríguez Fernández, begins with teenage desire and evolves into a story marked by violence and longing.
El día que me muera, by Mario Monzó, turns a fake funeral into an uncomfortable comedy about ego and family.
Digital Dolls, by Julia Ponce Díaz, travels back to the early internet era to explore adolescence, identity and virtual worlds.
La Fami, by Dembo Diaby Drame, examines the identity tensions of a young Spanish man of Senegalese origin growing up on the outskirts of Barcelona.
La forma animal, by Isa Luengo and Sofia Esteve, blends lycanthropy, political memory and sexuality in a fantastic story set in 1957.
Fuego en la boca, by Alois Sandner Díaz, follows a digital content moderator obsessed with an online predator.
Perro Paria, by Carla Linares, moves between obsessive romance and emotional delirium.
And Via Cintura, a documentary by Joan Bover, observes the lives unfolding along Palma’s ring road: a highway turned into a social, urban and emotional border.
The selected projects will compete for the following awards:
ELASTICA, FILMIN & DELUXE Award: €40,000 for the winning project in the form of advance financing linked to rights acquisition.
MÁLAGA TALENT Award: selection of one project to participate in Málaga Talent Campus 2027, organised within the Málaga Film Festival, with the aim of further supporting its development and industry connections.
ABYCINE LANZA Award: selection of one project to participate in the Abycine Lanza 2026 lab, supporting its development and financing process.
KINÓTICO Award: €2,000 advertising campaign linked to the theatrical release of the winning Talents Lab project, aimed at its distributor.
SOLWORKS FILMS Award: €2,000 grant for one selected project.
Atlàntida Mallorca Talents Lab is supported by Fundación Banc Sabadell, whose collaboration helps foster an edition especially connected to the new voices and perspectives shaping contemporary cinema.
The feature film development programme will take place in Mallorca from July 28 to 30, 2026.