Danny Boyle’s Ink won best international feature film at the 15th Evolution Mallorca International Film Festival, Paweł Pawlikowski took best director for Fatherland, and Jordan Firstman’s Club Kid won best debut feature, according to awards reports published on 4–5 November 2026 by Variety, Screen Daily and Cineuropa after the 31 October to 4 November edition closed in Palma. Organisers say the anniversary run screened more than 140 films, drew over 10,000 attendees from more than 23 countries and hosted nearly 400 filmmakers.
Key facts
- 15th Evolution Mallorca (EMIFF), 31 Oct-4 Nov 2026; organiser-reported >10,000 attendees, 140-plus films, ~400 filmmakers
- Best international feature: Ink (Danny Boyle); best director: Paweł Pawlikowski (Fatherland); best debut: Club Kid (Jordan Firstman)
- Career awards: Iris Berben, Diane Kruger, Matthew Libatique ASC LPS, Edward Berger; New Talent: Pau Aulí
- Full competitive and special-award list below (Variety / Screen / British Cinematographer)
For European specialty buyers and Balearic production offices, EMIFF’s 15th edition pairs a Boyle StudioCanal title and a Pawlikowski competition film with a Made in Baleares industry strand of 44 projects. Club Kid had already taken the narrative audience prize at Philadelphia earlier in the week; Mallorca’s best-debut award is a separate European festival board, not a rehash of that US win.
Top prizes and industry context
Ink, Boyle’s drama about the early days of Rupert Murdoch’s British newspaper empire, stars Jack O’Connell, Guy Pearce and Claire Foy from a James Graham screenplay. Screen notes StudioCanal’s involvement; Variety credits Boyle as the film’s lead name on the best-film board. Pawlikowski’s Fatherland, with Sandra Hüller and Hanns Zischler, won best director in the international feature competition after its Cannes path. Firstman’s Club Kid, which opened the Mallorca edition after Un Certain Regard, Toronto, New York and San Sebastián, took the inaugural best debut feature prize.
Festival founder and director Sandra Lipski said the anniversary edition’s aim was to strengthen Balearic audiovisual connections with the international community. Industry sidebars included Script Lab and Cinematography Focus sessions; guests named across trade reports include Libatique, Berger, Kruger and Berben. The edition closed with María Martínez Bayona’s The End of It at Palma’s Teatre Principal.
![A still from Club Kid](https://www.filmbunch.com/wp-content/uploads/2026/11/club-kid-2000.jpg "A still from Jordan Firstman’s <em>Club Kid</em>, best debut feature at Evolution Mallorca. Image: <a href=\\"https://variety.com/2026/film/global/evolution-mallorca-main-prizes-ink-fatherland-club-kid-1236939500/\\">Courtesy Everett Collection via Variety</a>")
Image: Courtesy Everett Collection via Variety
Related FilmBunch festival coverage includes the Philadelphia awards for Club Kid and Queen at Sea, La Bola Negra’s BFI London audience prize and Seville’s opening competition slate. More under Festivals & Markets.
Full awards: international feature films
- Best international feature film: Ink, directed by Danny Boyle (United Kingdom)
- Best director: international feature film: Paweł Pawlikowski, for Fatherland (Poland)
- Best cinematography: international feature film: Primavera, Daria D’Antonio (Italy)
Full awards: debut feature films
- Best debut feature: Club Kid, directed by Jordan Firstman (United States)
- Best director: debut feature: Tyler-Marie Evans, for Pretty Babies (United States)
- Best cinematography: debut feature: Andrés Arochi, for The End of It (Mexico)
Full awards: international short films
- Best international short film: Everest, directed by Jon Lange (Denmark)
- Special mention: Good Morning (Some Kind of Prayer), directed by Diogo Brito (Portugal)
- Best cinematography: international short film: Khufu, Mahmoud Assi (Canada, Egypt, France and Sweden)
- Special mention for cinematography: international short film: Oneiros, Cal Ola (United Kingdom)
Full awards: Made in Baleares short films
- Best Made in Baleares short film: Gamberra, directed by Marine Auclair March (Mallorca, Spain)
- Best cinematography: Made in Baleares short film: Simón García, for Gamberra
Full awards: international documentaries
- Best international feature documentary: Miss Jobson, directed by Amanda Sans Pantling (Spain)
- Best international short documentary: La Metro, directed by Amanda de Godoi (Brazil)
- Special mention: international short documentary: The Hardest Working Man, directed by Aaron Cassara (United States)
Full awards: Made in Baleares documentaries
- Best Made in Baleares feature documentary: Amílcar, directed by Miguel Eek (Mallorca, Spain)
- Best Made in Baleares short documentary: Utopus, directed by Jordi Nadal Perelló (Mallorca, Spain)
Full awards: emerging talent, special formats and screenplays
- Best new talent short film: Dirt, directed by Isabella Speaight (United Kingdom)
- Best experimental short film: What Do You Know About Us, directed by Enzo Paredes Díaz (Sweden)
- Best music video: Marcha, directed by Ruben Do Valle (Portugal)
- Best feature screenplay: Under the Same Sky, Isabella Rose
- Best short screenplay: Cuando Caen Los Árboles, Marina Oliveros Verdejo
Special awards of the 15th edition
- Evolution Icon Award 2026: Iris Berben
- Cinematography Icon Award 2026: Matthew Libatique, ASC, LPS
- Evolution Vision Award 2026: Edward Berger
- Evolution Icon Award 2026: Diane Kruger
- Evolution New Talent Award 2026: Pau Aulí
Attendance and filmmaker counts are organiser-reported. Prize money, if any, was not disclosed in the trade accounts.
Our reading
A complete board with Boyle, Pawlikowski and Firstman at the top gives EMIFF a clearer international signal than a local-only slate, while Made in Baleares winners keep the island’s industry pitch visible. Buyers should treat the 10,000-attendee claim as organiser-reported. Club Kid’s Mallorca debut prize sits beside its Philadelphia audience win without replacing either festival’s other laurels.