Steve Buscemi will receive the 2025 Evolution Icon Award at the Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, with San Sebastian winner Sundays set to open the event, organizers said on Tuesday.
Julio Medem, Ingrid García-Jonsson and Phedon Papamichael will also help headline the 14th edition of the festival. The full program was unveiled on Tuesday by the director and founder of the EMIFF, Sandra Lipski. The festival will run Oct. 21-29 in Palma.
Opening with Alauda Ruiz de Azúa’s Sundays (Los Domingos), the festival will overall feature more than 130 films from 30 countries. Beyond Sundays, the nine feature films in the official competition selection are recent Venice Golden Lion winner Father Mother Sister Brother by Jim Jarmusch, Julia Ducornau’s Alpha, Rebecca Zlotowski’s A Private Life, Isabel Coixet’s Tres Adioses, Erik Schmitt‘s The Life of Wishes, the UK UK Buscemi-starring Psycho Therapy, directed by Tolga Karaćelik, Charlie McDowell’s The Summer Book, and Neele Leana Vollmar’s Time We Lost.
Lipski on Tuesday also unveiled Buscemi as the recipient of the Evolution Icon Award. His credits include the likes of Reservoir Dogs, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Death of Stalin, and TV series Boardwalk Empire. Buscemi’s most recent film, Psycho Therapy, will close the festival.
On the industry side, fest highlights include the returning “Women In Leadership” roundtable, an “Innovation Focus with Largo AI” session,
analyzing the present and future of AI in film production, and “OFF ESCAC and The Actor’s Home Network,” which will focus on key topics for performers, such as casting and marketing, as well as talks with all of the Evolution Award recipients.
