The Series Mania Festival is back from August 26 to September 2.
Hagai Levi, the creator of
BeTipul
, the Israeli series on which “In Therapy” is based, will chair the competition jury.
The journalist Florence Aubenas, that of the panorama.
Séries Mania will offer more than 50 new series, including more than 25 world premieres, series from five continents and more than 20 countries.
After one cancellation and two postponements due to the pandemic, Séries Mania is making its comeback from August 26 to September 2 in the capital of Flanders!
“It's finally reunion!
The Series Mania Festival will allow us to meet again, all together in Lille and Hauts-de-France, ”said the president of the region, Xavier Bertrand, before the announcement of the guests and the program during a conference. press release this Wednesday in Lille.
Edouard Philippe will talk about series and politics
After Uma Thurman and Julianna Margulies, singer and actress Audra McDonald, seen in
Private Practice
and
The Good Fight
, will present Michelle and Robert King's post-pandemic series broadcast on Spectrum Originals, and will be the first recipient of the Series Mania Etoile Award , prize awarded each year to an international personality from the world of the series.
Clyde Philipps, showrunner on the series
Nurse Jackie, Parker Lewis Never Loses, Get Real
will be present to talk about the highly anticipated season 9 of
Dexter
airing this fall in the United States, of which he has already signed the first four seasons, considered like the best by the fans.
Chris Brancato, the president of the festival's 2018 international competition jury, is back in Lille.
He has written and produced over 200 hours of series, including
X-files, New York, Criminal Investigation,
and
Hannibal
.
He is also a co-creator of a Netflix hit,
Narcos
and the creator of
Godfather of Harlem
, the prequel series to the
American Gangster
movie
worn by Forest Whitaker and available on Starzplay.
Rabbi Delphine Horvilleur, editorial director of the magazine Tenou'a and author, will take her first steps on the red carpet alongside journalist and novelist Tania de Montaigne.
Former Prime Minister Edouard Philippe will meet festival-goers at a conference entitled "Politics and series".
Hagai Levi, president of the jury
The jury for the international competition will be chaired by writer, director and producer Hagai Levi, creator of
BeTipul
, the Israeli series on which
Golden Globe winner
En Therapie
is based
, for co-creating and co-producing television drama
The Affair.
The jury of the international panorama will be chaired by the French journalist and author Florence Aubenas.
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"Germinal" in international competition
Séries Mania will offer more than 50 new series, including more than 25 world premieres, series from five continents and more than 20 countries. "Séries Mania continues its meticulous work of international clearing and welcomes more than 20 countries in its programming, with newcomers such as Serbia, Croatia, Turkey, Colombia and Taiwan", congratulate Rodolphe Belmer. , president of Séries Mania and Laurence Herszberg, general manager of Séries Mania.
The international competition thus welcomes the German-Norwegian series
Furia
, the Icelandic
Blackport,
the Turkish
Hamlet
, the Israeli Jerusalem and
The Echo Of Your Voice
and the Danish
Kamikase
.
France will be represented with the adaptation of Emile Zola's novel, Germinal.
After Il Miracolo, special jury prize and the male interpretation prize at the Lille international series festival in May 2018, the Italian novelist Niccolò Ammaniti returns to compete with
Anna
, a new series for Arte.
The red thread stand-up
The new OCS signature series on the stand up,
Jeune et golri,
produced by Fanny Sidney (Aka Camille in
Dix pour cent
) and carried in particular by Agnès Hurstel and Jonathan Lambert will be in French competition.
Séries Mania has also chosen the series stand-up as a common thread this year.
In the wake of
Seinfeld
or
Curb Your Enthusiasm
, the stand-uppers have seized the series to stage fictional versions of themselves, as in
Atlanta, Ramy
or
This Way Up
, while the series that tell behind the scenes from the stand-up scene multiply from
The Marvelous Mrs Maisel, I'm Dying up Here
to
Crashing
.
The cream of the French stand-up (Fadily Camara, Nora Hamzawi, Agnès Hurstel, Kyan Khojandi, Alex Ramirès and Thomas VDB) will come to show on the big screen two of their favorite stand-up series.
Jeune et golri
will compete against five other French novelties:
Nona and her daughters
by Valérie Donzelli for Arte,
Rebecca
, adaptation of the British series
Marcella
for TF1,
Le Code
, the new creation of the team behind
Chérif
for France 2, and
Or de lui
, the France TV comedy carried by Ramzy Bedia.
During special screenings, festival-goers will be able to discover the Franco-Belgian
La Corde
and
L'Opéra
, Julie Delpy's series
On The Verge
, and meet Fanny Herrero, the showrunner of
Dix pour cent
, who will come to present her new series
Funny
.
They will also enjoy the nuggets of the short format.
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The actors of the daily soap operas of
Demain Nous Belongs, Here Everything Begins
and
Un Si Grand Soleil
will meet their fans in the festival village. Marie Papillon will present her short series
Marie et les Choses
.
Festival-goers will also be able to discover the first part of the last season of
La Casa de Papel
, season 2 of
Mytho
, an unpublished
piece of the
Little Murders of Agatha christie 70's
and the world premiere of
Engaged: XAOC
.
Finally, during a night of comedies, they will watch over
Bloods, Mobile Brigade, Fisk, Frank Of Ireland, Hacks, Les Tribulations de Georges et Fernand
and
Starstruck.
A reunion in Lille placed under the sign of good humor!
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