There's an idea we like to repeat at CineCiutat: cinema isn't only what happens on the screen, it's also what happens before, during and after the shoot. Generació AMFF: Equip x CineCiutat was born exactly from there.
You know we haven't been able to sit still this year: activities, special screenings, programmed cycles, workshops... a whole season of not stopping. So it felt unthinkable not to team up again with our friends at Atlàntida Mallorca Film Festival and, together, set up a workshop for teenagers aged 13 to 16 with the curiosity to look at cinema from the inside.
The premise is simple and, at the same time, a small statement of intent. For decades, making cinema meant access to expensive equipment, editing rooms, laboratories, sound stages and the rest. Today, anyone with a phone in their pocket also carries a camera, a microphone and an editing suite. Agnès Varda sensed this before almost anyone else when she took to the road with a small DV camera to shoot Les glaneurs et la glaneuse: cinema can also fit in your hand and, sometimes, it looks better when it gets close. That's the heart of the workshop: moving from consumption to expression, giving criteria and language to a tool the participants already use every day.
The participants will go through every phase of the creative process, from the first spark of an idea to the finished piece. They'll think as a group, write, shoot and edit a piece of their own. Along the way, the essential theoretical keys will appear: how a shot is built, what editing does when it joins two images, why rhythm decides whether a story breathes or suffocates. It's worth remembering that Chantal Akerman decided she would devote herself to cinema at the age of fifteen, after watching Pierrot le fou in a cinema. The age to take the craft seriously has never been the one we imagine, and that's that.
The workshop will be led by a team with both pedagogical and audiovisual experience, used to working with this age group without condescension: opening up paths, not marking the only right one.
And now the part that moves us most as a cinema: the piece created during the workshop will be screened as part of the festival's official programme, in a real auditorium, in front of a real audience. Seeing your own work on screen, sharing it with others, realising that ideas which started almost as a game have come to inhabit a living cultural space, is wonderful. Céline Sciamma always speaks of cinema as an act of looking at another person and letting them look back at you. That, exactly, is what will happen when the lights go down at CineCiutat: your piece will fully exist the moment it's projected.
Monday 27, Tuesday 28 and Wednesday 29 July 2026, from 10 a.m. to 2 p.m. Three days, full mornings, inside the Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest.
The essentials!
The workshop is free and places are limited. Registration is through the official AMFF form. All the information about the workshop is also in this dossier. For any questions, write to hola@atlantidafilmfest.es
If you're into cinema, if you have something to tell or if you simply want to see what happens when an idea crosses the screen, this is your place.