Stephen Graham, who plays the main character, received the award for Best Actor.
The Grand Prix of the Mania Series, whose tenth edition ended on Saturday in Lille, was awarded to the British series The Virtues by the jury chaired by the American Marti Noxon.
A psychological drama. This 4 X 46-minute series created by Shane Meadows ( This is England ) and Jack Thorne, to be broadcast on Channel 4, is a psychological drama that follows a man who drowns his loneliness in alcohol before returning to his sister, lost for 30 years. Stephen Graham, who plays the main character, received the award for Best Actor.
The award for Best Actress was awarded to Marina Hands for the Mytho series (Arte in France and Germany, Netflix bought the rights for the rest of the world), which also received the "Audience Award", nominated by the vote of viewers. The Israeli series Just for today received the special jury prize.
Award-winning French series In total, ten international series (including two French) were in competition and presented in world premiere since March 22nd. In the French competition, the fantasy series Une Île, directed by Julien Trousselier for Arte, with Laeticia Casta, which received the prize for the best series, awarded by a jury of the international press. Also in this competition, Carole Weyers has received the best actress award for the detective series of France 2 Double Je and Gregory Montel the best actor for the comedy The Grand Bazaar for M6.
For the duration of the festival, the public and the professionals were able to attend the world premiere of the screening of two episodes of each series of the international competition in the presence of their teams. This tenth Mania Series Festival, second in Lille after eight editions in Paris, ended Saturday night with the awards ceremony in the New Century Hall, then with a preview of the Hanna series of Amazon Premium.