Mallorca Int’l Film Fest Announces Juried Awards

Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, set in the heart of Mallorca’s buzzing and culturally rich center of Palma, announced today special artist awards, and the feature film and short film recipients of this year’s juried awards. 

Festival Awards were awarded by internationally esteemed jurors in juried categories, including: Feature film – Best feature film, Best Actress, Best Actor. Short Film – Best Actress, Best Actor, Best Feature and Short Documentary, Best Music Video, Best Experimental short, Best feature Film Screenplay, Best Film Made in Baleares short, Evolution Island Award (best feature film made in Baleares) and the Evolutionary award (best new filmmaker).

A W A R D W I N N E R S – EMIFF 2017 

Best Feature Film: ‘Thelma’, by Joachim Trier (NOR)

Best Actor, Feature Film: Karsten Mielke for ‘Dark Blue Girl’

Best Actress, Feature Film: Ella Rumpf for ‘Tiger Girl’.

Best Screenplay: Scott Simpson, Callie Earlene.

Best Feature Documentary: ‘Resistence is Life’, Apo W. Bazidi (TUR, SIR, USA)

Special mention Feature Documentary: ‘Grab and Run’, Roser Corella (ES)

Best Short Documentary: ’52-The Trolleybus’, David Auerbach (RU)

Special mention Short Documentary: ‘Xavier Carbonell, The Cracked Glaze’, Doménec Boronat. (ES)

Best Short Film International: ‘Madre’, Rodrigo Sorogoyen. (ES)

Special Mention Short Film International: ‘The Transfer’, Michael Grudsky (DE)

Best Short Documentary Made in Baleares: ‘Kyoko’, Marcos Cabotá & Joan Bover (ES)

Best Short film Made in Baleares: ‘My daugther’s things’, Bernardo Arzayus (ES)

Special mention Best Short film Made in Baleares: ‘Talia’, Toni Bestard (ES)

Best Music Video: ‘Coeur Croisé’, Pablo Maestres (ES)

Special mention Music Video: ‘Ghost’, Zuzanne Plisz (POL)

Best short film experimental: ‘Remission’, John Charter (USA)

Evolutionary Island Award: Miquel Eek, por Vida y Muerte de un Arquitecto

Evolution Vision Award: Paul Haggis 

Evolutionary Award: Pilou Asbaek