The costumbrist thriller directed by Miguel Ángel Blanca and co-produced with Mosaic, ‘Magaluf Ghost Town’, has been selected for the prestigious Hot Docs in Toronto, the largest documentary festival in North America.
In this portrait of freedoms and excesses, Blanca shows the reality of a piece of Mallorca that every summer is stigmatized by the press, cursed by the locals, and longed for by the British who want to live the mythical experience that seems to be a rite of passage into adulthood.
‘What is Magaluf exactly? Or rather… What can Magaluf become? Magaluf is an ideal neon-lit set where you can build legends, tell lies and reflect on the ways in which tourist spaces in decline are represented in the collective imagination.’, reflects the director, who will have his world premiere of the film on 29 April in the International Spectrum competitive selection of the 28th edition of the Canadian Hot Docs festival.
We are expectant and excited to see how “Magaluf Ghost Town”, a French-Spanish production by Boogaloo Films, Little Big Story and Mosaic, awakens fascinations about this perennial phenomenon of tourists that continues to take root in an almost schizophrenic relationship between the tired local population and the impatient visitor.