At Atlàntida you will find the latest in cinema, new voices, established auteurs with new films, but also contemporary classics that we have not been able to forget and that we have decided to bring to the festival.
But we are not only bringing them to Mallorca; we are presenting 4K premieres of films that changed our lives.
El desencanto
Possibly the best documentary in Spanish cinema.
In 1976, Jaime Chávarri released El desencanto, produced by Elías Querejeta and with cinematography by Teodoro Escamilla (Cría cuervos, Deprisa, deprisa). Now, fifty years later, we have the opportunity to see it as never before: restored in 4K and presented by its director, Jaime Chávarri.
The Panero family were to literature what the Flores were to music: illustrious and celebrated, but also chaotic and self-destructive. A nest of rivalries, envy, and settling of scores between the three siblings and their mother. Illness, literature, high-level arguments, and the most harrowing portrait ever made of the late Franco era.
Chicho o Mientras el Cuerpo Aguante (Una Comedia Didáctica)
The world premiere of the restoration of Fernando Trueba’s second film.
A hidden gem of Spanish cinema. Rarely seen due to its troubled premiere at the San Sebastián Film Festival, we are bringing it back four decades later. Shot in Sóller, Fernando Trueba portrays the son of Falangist writer Rafael Sánchez Mazas, Chicho Sánchez, a composer of antifascist resistance songs.
So, if you think that if the rooster were red, another rooster would crow, this film is for you.
For the second consecutive year, we have a film by Gregg Araki at Atlàntida.
After his Teenage Apocalypse trilogy, made up of “Nowhere”, “Totally Fucked Up” and “The Doom Generation”, which established him as the queer filmmaker of the 1990s, Araki proved he could direct a film with commercial ambition. In 2004 he released Mysterious Skin, starring two new faces in the industry: Joseph Gordon-Levitt (“Inception”, “500 días de verano”) and Brady Corbet, whom you may better know as a director for “The Brutalist”.
A gem of 2000s cinema, where we discover what story two boys share: one who believes he was abducted by aliens and another immersed in a life of prostitution, excess, and self-destruction. A story that inspired the Javis for a character in the series “La Mesías”. We will say no more.
The most iconic lesbian film of the 1990s.
High Art became a milestone from its premiere at the Sundance Festival, where it won the award for Best Screenplay, and about which Roger Ebert said: “So perceptive and mature that it makes other similar films seem frivolous.” Mythologized over the decades, its incredible 4K restoration now arrives, premiering in Spain at Atlàntida.
A journalist meets, through her work, a photographer struggling with drug addiction. A relationship begins between them that oscillates between love, professional convenience, and emotional dependence. With references to photographers such as Nan Goldin and Larry Clark and an unforgettable soundtrack by Shudder to Think.
The film of the 1990s, the film about addicts, the film by Danny Boyle, and the film of “Born Slippy”.
Filmmaker Danny Boyle (“28 días después”, “Slumdog Millionaire”) burst onto the British, and global, scene in 1996 with this adaptation of Irvine Welsh’s novel of the same name. Starring the brilliant Ewan McGregor and featuring an iconic soundtrack by Underworld that turned “Born Slippy” into an anthem.
Mark is a young man from Edinburgh with many friends, and all of them, including himself, have a small problem: they are addicted to heroin. A narrative that turned its UK release into a wave of controversy for portraying heroin and those dependent on it as never before.
One of the most iconic films of Balearic cinema.
Winner of the Revelation Film award at the Cannes Film Festival, the critics’ prize at the Rotterdam Festival, and the Sant Jordi Award for Best Actor, “Yo” is a landmark of Catalan cinema that deserves a new life. For this reason, we present the world premiere of the 4K restoration of Rafa Cortés’s great film.
Hans, a German worker, arrives in a small town in Mallorca in search of a new life. But cultural differences, the mistrust of the locals, and a disturbing accusation turn his daily life into an increasingly hostile experience.