Events

Creating visual emotions through your lighting style. Cinematographer Valentina Caniglia, ASC CCS, and Rainer Lipski (Director of Cinematography Focus) explore how lighting creates emotion, defines character and shapes a film’s visual language. Through a live demonstration on a simple set, they will show how changes in quality, colour, direction and contrast can transform the emotional meaning of an image.
Gaffer: Mike Gerzewitz

Come learn techniques that will help you reach your full potential as a Cinematographer or Director. Communicate your vision more universally by speaking in images and reduce the time spent in email chains by using the latest technology. Presented by Nic Sadler.

An in-depth conversation with Iris Berben reflecting on a career of more than five decades, from her signature role in “Rosa Roth” to Ruben Östlund’s Palme d’Or–winning “Triangle of Sadness”. Moderated by Sandra Lipski (Moderator, Director and Founder of Evolution Mallorca Film Festival).

A conversation about the topics that are usually off-topic: How to find the right co/producers, what qualities to look for and what it really means to co/produce?

Panelists:
• Gabriela Ortega (Award-winning Writer and Director - Huella, Papi, Marga en el DF screening at festival)
• Xavi Font (Producer and Composer - Sirāt, Fire Will Come, Hierro, Agallas)
• Kim Magnusson (Oscar-winning Producer - I’m not a Robot, Helium, Family screening at festival)

Largo.ai is an AI analytics platform for film, TV and advertising. It analyses scripts and video to predict audience response and suggest casting. It also forecasts box-office and financial performance to help projects get developed and financed. Presented by Largo.ai founder Sami Arpa.

Café con Cine is a relaxed afternoon get-together where industry professionals meet over coffee to share stories, talk about their projects and make new connections in the heart of Palma. Industry pass holders only.

Now in its fifth edition at EMIFF, this panel is presented in partnership with the Girls on Film Podcast. Women in leadership roles across the film industry share their paths to success, the challenges of sustaining influential positions, and how they balance professional ambition with personal and family life. Moderated by Girls On Film Podcast co-founder Anna Smith.

Panelists:
• Anna Smith (Moderator - Girls On Film Podcast)
• Sandra Lipski (Founder and Director of Evolution Mallorca Film Festival)
• Jeanne Tremsal (Producer and Writer - Ballad of a Small Player, See You in Hell, Fatherland screening at Festival)

A conversation with Edward Berger about his filmmaking vision and creative process, from the Oscar-winning All Quiet on the Western Front to Conclave, Ballad of a Small Player and Fatherland, which he produced and which screens at this year’s festival. Moderated by Sandra Lipski.

A conversation with German actress Diane Krüger about a career that has moved between Hollywood and European cinema, from “Troy” and Quentin Tarantino’s “Inglourious Basterds” to Fatih Akin’s “In the Fade”, which won her Best Actress at Cannes. Moderated by Sandra Lipski (Founder and Director Evolution Mallorca Film Festival).

A conversation with festival programmers, distributors and the filmmakers themselves sharing truthful realities about the cut-throat festival-world of short films. How to get into festivals and get noticed.

Panelists:
• Gregory JM Kasunich (Writer, Director and Producer - The Heart of Texas, Meeting Your Maker screening at Festival)
• Kim Magnusson (Oscar-winning Producer - I’m not a Robot, Helium, Family screening at festival)
• Louisa Connolly-Burnham (Writer, Director and Actress - Sister Wives, Full Fat screening at Festival, The Intimacy Coordinator screening at Festival)

From securing funding and permits to finding standout locations, booking equipment and hiring the best local crew, this conversation shares the latest trends and practical tips for shooting on the Balearic Islands.

Panelists:
• Pilar Amer Fuster (Deputy Head of Production Palma Pictures)
• Diana de la Cuadra (General Director of IEB)
• Toni Bestard (Local Writer, Producer and Director - I Am Your Father, The Perfect Stranger, Pullman, just shot “Render” on Mallorca and Menorca)
• Bora Dagtekin (German Director - Der perfekte Urlaub, filmed on Mallorca 2025)
• Frank Rodriguez Zaragoza (Producer - Torna, filmed on Mallorca 2026)

Café con Cine is a relaxed afternoon get-together where industry professionals meet over coffee to share stories, talk about their projects and make new connections in the heart of Palma. Industry pass holders only.

Producer Fabian Jöst Passamonte presents a practical approach to sustainable filmmaking in Mallorca, built on his Green Merit script. He’ll show how productions can cut their carbon footprint and lower costs at the same time.

A conversation with international Casting Directors and Filmmakers about new trends and standards in today’s Casting landscape. Moderated by Luci Lenox, Founder of The Actors Home.

Panelists:
• Luci Lenox (Moderator - Casting Director and Founder The Actors Home)
• Nancy Bishop (International Casting Director)
• Jordan Wagner (Producer - Flight Risk, Hypnotic, Pretty Babies screening at Festival)
• Russell Goldman (Director and Writer - Sender, starring Britt Lower and Jamie Lee Curtis)

A conversation with Mallorcan costume designer and art director Pau Aulí, this year’s Evolution Newcomer Award recipient. He’ll talk about how clothing shapes character and story, from his Gaudí-nominated work with Agustí Villaronga, Albert Serra and Carlos Marqués-Marcet to The End of It, this year’s closing film. Moderated by Claudia Albons, fashion journalist and Creative Director of Studio Albons.

A CAMERA & LIGHT MAG panel moderated by Carmen V. Albert, with Dani Saló AEC, Eric Börjeson López and another cinematographer, exploring how filming in challenging locations and adverse weather conditions shapes preparation, equipment choices, and collaboration between the director of photography and their key creative and technical partners.

The Female Gaze has changed how stories are told and who tells them. But AI-generated stories threaten to drag us back toward the clichés it has challenged. Meanwhile, social media has become the most powerful storytelling platform of our time, one where storytellers become the product themselves.
Emmy-nominated cinematographer Valentina Caniglia, ASC, CCS, joins cinematographer and technologist Nic Sadler to explore the shifting relationship between image-making, identity, and authorship. Special guest to be announced.

Led by VFX artist and CEF teacher Josep Antoni, this workshop introduces green screen, grey-screen workflows, LED backgrounds and AI—and what they mean for cinematography today. LED-background workflows will be included if available.

A British Cinematographer panel, moderated by digital journalist George White, exploring how actors and cinematographers build trust through lighting, framing, lenses and camera movement - and how these choices shape performance and story.

Panelists:
• George White (Moderator - Digital Journalist at British Cinematographer Magazine)
• Maria Dragus (Actress - The White Ribbon, Mademoiselle Paradis, Mary Queen of Scots)
• Matthew Libatique, ASC (Cinematographer - Black Swan, A Star is Born, Pi)

An in-depth conversation exploring his early career, creative challenges, and collaborations with renowned directors. Moderated by Stephen Pizzello (Editor In Chief American Cinematographer) and Sandra Lipski (Director and Founder of Evolution Mallorca Film Festival).