Art-world thriller “Triptych,” from Studio TF1’s Kubik Films; RTP-backed Afro-Portuguese music drama “Dark Hope” and “Naked,” a new drama from “Sirāt” producer Corte y Confección de Películas figure among the standout entries at this year’s Conecta Magaluf-Mallorca.
Running May 25-28 on Magaluf beach in Calvià, Mallorca, Spain, the 10th anniversary edition of Conecta Fiction & Entertainment brings 26 projects from Europe and the Americas to its international pitching sessions, spanning drama series, comedies, direct-to-streaming movies and vertical series.
Across the selection, one clear through-line is identity under pressure. “Naked” tackles eating disorders, beauty standards and family silence; Marcos Callejo’s movie “Nana” frames artistic and sexual awakening through a young painter’s bond with a charismatic classmate; and Loba Loba-produced “Adopted Girls” follows Chinese-Spanish adoptees confronting origin and belonging.
A more comic register carries the same tension elsewhere. “Breakdowns,” by Argentina’s Lab Producciones, follows a woman reconnecting with childhood friends after leaving a psychiatric hospital, only to find their seemingly functional lives marked by their own obsessions. Carla Stagno’s Chilean project “Intense” approaches motherhood as both desire and refusal, while in “Playing Away,” Uruguayan Carlos Morelli uses soccer to explore adolescence, migration and a fractured mother-daughter bond.
