Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival
The Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival is an annual film festival held in Mallorca, Spain. Founded in 2012 by Sandra Lipski, EMIFF originally ran in conjunction with a sister screening event in Los Angeles, but now operates solely in Mallorca.
EMIFF Award Winners
2021
Feature FilmBest Feature Film:Spring Blossom by Suzanne Lindon
Best Casting:Lucy Lenox & Pep Armengol, Pan de limón con semillas de amapola by Benito Zambrano
Best Actress :Elia Galera & Eva Martín en Pan de limón con semillas de amapola by Benito Zambrano
Best Actor: Martín Altomaro en Los Días que no Estuve by Samuel Rios
Evolutionary Island Award : Off the Rails by Jules Williamson
Documentary
International Documentary Special Mention: Yoghurt UtopiabyAnna Thomson, David Baksh
Best International Documentary: Salaryman by Alegra Pacheco
Made In Baleares Documentary Special Mention: Sonic Fantasy by Marcos Cabotá
Best Documentary Made In Baleares: Vivir sin país by Alberto Martos
Best Documentary Short Made In Baleares: Ulisses by Joan Bover
International Short Film
International Short film Special Mention: Caravan by William Michael Anderson
Best International Short film: On my mind by Martin Strange-Hansen
Best Actress International Short film: Lindsey Duncan in November 1
Best Actor International Short film: Günter Tollar in Fabiu
Made In Baleares
Made in Baleares Short Film Special Mention: Yo, Diablo by Baltazar Klarwein
Best Made in Baleares Short Film:5 hours, 39 minutes, 25 secondsby Tomas Rojo, Santiago Rindel
Special Mention Best Actress: Neus Cortés in Volatile
Best Actress Made in Baleares Short Film: Cristina Bragoin in 5 hours, 39 minutes, 25 seconds
Best Actor Made in Baleares Short Film: Marc Bonnin in YÉYÉ
Experimental Short Film & Music Video
Special Mention: Casual Vignettes of Gilded Vulgarity by Paul Kaiser
Best Experimental Short Film: Water Dreams by Domingo Pablo Ortiz
Best Music video: Big Deal by Saskia Dixie
TVCortos Best Spanish Short Film
Imposible decirte adiós by Yolanda Centeno
Screenplay
Best Feature Film Screenplay:Dies Ireaby Giovanni Labadessa & Lorenzo Colonna
Best Short Film Screenplay: Anecoica by Marcos Callejo
Best Evolution Island Screenplay: Hard Water by Robert Cole
SPECIAL AWARDS
Evolution Honorary 2021: Wim Wenders
Evolutionary 2021 : Suzanne Lindon
2020
Best Experimental Short Film Exhalation, director Al DíazBest Music video Complication, director Pere Sala Bastardes
Best International Documentary Short A Syrian Women, directores: Khawla Al Hammouri, Louis Karim Sayad DeCaprio
Special Mention - International Documentary Short - Woman, director Raúl de la Fuente Calle
Best Made In Baleares Documentary short film Running Home, director Michelle-Andrea Girouard
Best Made In Baleares Documentary feature film Revealing Mario, director Simó Mateu
Special mention - Made In Baleares Documentary feature film Dorothea y el Myotragus directoras Nuria Abad, Marta Hierro
Best International Documentary Feature film Mujereando, The lament of a goddess directora Carmen Tamayo
Best Short Film Screenplay Competition Pass, de Elika Abdollahi
Best international Short Film Pa'lante, director David Van
Special Mention International Short Film: October Winds, director Heinz Köbernick A complete woman, director Ceres Machado
Best Actor in a MIB Short Film Lucas Nabor en GREEN SILK de la directora Marina Wagner Moll
Best Actress in a MIB Short Film Rosa Cadafalch en DONA de la directora Marga Meliá.
Best Made In Baleares - Short Film Tongue with capers, director David Mataró
Special Mention MIB Short Film: La leyenda de Oriol by Rubén Jiménez Sanz, El Resort by Pedro Deltell-Colomer, Paula Galimberti y Gonzalo Piñán
Best Feature Film Screenplay Tau Emerald de Tamara Vogl
Evolutionary Island Award Baumbacher Syndrome de Gregory Kirchhoff
Best Actress Feature Film Andrea Sawatski en Zoro's Solo
Best Actor Feature Film Adrian Martinez en iGilbert,
Special Mention Feature Film The Waiter de Steve Krikris
Best Feature Film Toprak de la directora Sevgi Hirschhäuser
2019
Evolution Vision 2019: Asif KapadiaEvolutionary 2019: Lena Headey
Evolutionary 2019: Guy Nattiv
Mejor Película: 'Love cuts', de Costa Djordjevic
Mejor Director: Richard Wong, por "Come as you Are"
Mejor Actor: Grant Rosenmeyer
Mejor Actriz: Kristina Jovanovic
Mención especial: Li Jinming
Mejor Guion: Barbara Daniel por "Damaged Goods"
Mejor Largometraje Documental: Gina Hole Lazarowich, por 'Krow´s Transformation"
Mención especial: Nata Moreno por "Ara Malikian: A life among strings"
Mejor Cortometraje Documental: 'Campesinos', de Matias Bolla
Mejor Cortometraje de Ficción: 'Fuck you', de Anette Sidor
Mejor Cortometraje Made in Baleares: 'Playboys', de Roxanne Paisan
Mención especial Cortometraje Made in Baleares: A-1606, de Ricard Peitx
Mejor Corto Documental Made in Baleares: 'Suitecase of madame Colette', de Joan Bonet
Mejor Vídeo Musical: Oren Lavie por "Second hand lovers" y Alina Maria Rancier por "Ay, Ay, I"
Mención especial: Alexandra Gascón por "Qué calor!"
Premio Evolutionary Island: Lene Borch Hansen y Anna Von Lowzow, por 'Joern Utzon: The man and the architect"
2018
BEST FEATURE FILM – BACK FOR GOOD, by Mia SpenglerBEST ACTRESS – Sara Forestier, "M"
BEST ACTOR – Redouanne Harjane, "M"
BEST FEATURE DOC- The Silence of Others, Robert Bahar & Almudena Carracedo
SPECIAL MENTION FEAYURE DOC: 'All the Women I Know', Xiana do Teixeiro,
EVOLUTIONARY ISLAND AWARD - Line Hadsbjerg, 'Out of Plastic'
BEST SHORT DOC MIB - 'The Most Beautiful Hell I Know' by Cesc Mulet & Pep Bonet
BEST SHORT FILM MIB - 'Background', Toni Bestard
BEST SHORT FILM - 'Shadow Animals', Jerry Carlsson
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT FILM: 'Facing Mecca' by de Joel Jent
BEST SHORT DOC- 'Globalizing Beauty', Sonja Keßler
SPECIAL MENTION SHORT DOC: 'Travelogue Tel Aviv', de Samuel Patthey
BEST MUSIC VIDEO - 'Stereo', by Jesper Skoubølling,
SPECIAL MENTION MUSIC VIDEO - 'Be Brave' by Dominic Mercurio
BEST SHORT EXPERIMENTAL FILM - 'Hoissuru' by Armand Rovira
BEST VIRTUAL REALITY SHORT FILM - 'God is One' by Michael Wall
BEST SCREENPLAY - 'The Fledgling', Tara Lynn Orr
2017
Best Feature Film: 'Thelma', by Joachim TrierBest 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: 'Resistance is Life', Apo W. Bazidi
Special mention Feature Documentary: 'Grab and Run', Roser Corella
Best Short Documentary: '52-The Trolleybus', David Auerbach
Special mention Short Documentary: 'Xavier Carbonell, The Cracked Glaze',Doménec Boronat.
Best Short Film International: 'Madre', Rodrigo Sorogoyen.
Special Mention Short Film International: 'The Transfer', Michael Grudsky
Best Short Documentary Made in Baleares: 'Kyoko', Marcos Cabotá & Joan Bover
Best Short film Made in Baleares: 'My daughter's things', Bernardo Arzayus
Special mention Best Short film Made in Baleares: 'Talia', Toni Bestard
Best Music Video: 'Coeur Croisé', Pablo Maestres
Special mention Music Video: 'Ghost', Zuzanne Plisz
Best short film experimental: 'Remission', John Charter
Best Virtual Reality short: 360° Gladiators in the Colosseum, Jörg Courtial
Evolutionary Island Award: Miquel Eek, por Vida y Muerte de un Arquitecto
Evolution Vision Award: Paul Haggis
Evolutionary Award: Pilou Asbaek