We know that these days you're living it all with the intensity that a summer of cinema (thank you, Atlàntida Mallorca Film Fest) allows. But we're asking you one thing: stop for a second, open your calendar and save this date. It'll be worth it.

Rodrigo Sorogoyen returns from Cannes —this year, for the first time, in competition for the Palme d'Or— with El ser querido, and he does so alongside a Javier Bardem in a state of grace.

In El ser querido, Bardem plays a legendary, hot-tempered film director, the kind who has burned everything down along the way. After thirteen years of silence, he reunites with his daughter (a towering Victoria Luengo) and casts her as the lead in his new film. The shoot, deep in the Fuerteventura desert, forces them to live side by side and to face head-on everything they never said to one another.

Written by Sorogoyen and Isabel Peña —the same duo behind As bestas and El Reino—, it's cinema within cinema: a film about parents and children, about inheritance, about the wounds that time never quite heals. From one island to another, one of the great Spanish films of the year reaches us.

And you won't be watching it alone: on opening day, after the 8 p.m. screening, an online Q&A with Rodrigo Sorogoyen, Isabel Peña, Victoria Luengo and Javier Bardem awaits, to keep the conversation going a little longer.

Tickets for all sessions on sale here.