The Canneséries festival takes place from October 8 to 13 on site and online.
Game of Thrones
star Nikolaj Coster-Waldau
chairs the jury for the long format competition.
Raoul Peck, Mike White, David Tennant, Phoebe Dynevor and Laurie Nunn are expected on the pink carpet.
Fiction events and many stars its pink carpet! Season 4 of Canneséries, which will be held from October 8 to 13 online and on the Côte d'Azur, unveiled this Tuesday at a press conference a very promising program. "At Canneséries, we decided that our intention would be to put joy at the center of this new edition, the one that we will feel when discovering this daring and visionary selection, that of participating in a demanding and accessible festival, without gauge", a declared Fleur Pellerin, president of the Cannes International Series Festival.
Out of competition, the Riviera festival will screen several fictional events:
Le Tour du monde en 80 jours
, the adaptation of the classic by Jules Verne, co-produced by France Télévisions, the BBC and the ZDF and carried by David Tennant or
Sisi
, a German biopic. on the Empress Elizabeth of Austria much less watered down than the saga led by Romy Schneider. Canal +, historical partner of the event, will present at the opening "the most anticipated series of the year", according to Jean-Marc Juramie, deputy director general of antenna and programs of the encrypted channel, season 2 of
Validé
by Franck Gastambide and in closing, the last season of the Italian series
Gomorra
.
The encrypted channel also presents two episodes of HBO Max's LBGT series,
Generat + ion
and in preview, two episodes of season 2 of
Narvalo
.
On the occasion of
Validé
, the festival will offer a selection dedicated to rap with
Diana Boss, a
new France.tv series Slash,
BXXL
, a documentary series, and
Orelsan - Never Show That To Anyone
, Prime Video's highly anticipated documentary, in the presence of the Nantes artist.
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau will chair the jury
Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, best known for his role as Jaime Lannister in the award-winning HBO series
Game of Thrones
, chairs the jury for the long format competition.
In the running, 10 fictions selected among 194 series sent to the selection committee, from 9 countries.
Among them, the French series
Totems
, created and written by Juliette Soubrier (
Zone Blanche
) and Olivier Dujols (
Le Bureau des Légendes, Falco
) for Amazon Prime Video, carried by Niels Schneider, José Garcia, Ana Girardot and Lambert Wilson, recounts the romance between a French secret agent and a KGB recruit during the Cold War in the France of General De Gaulle.
Two Scandinavian series are in competition.
Countrymen
, a creaking comedy co-produced by Arte and the Norwegians of NRK, which follows the installation of three radical Islamists on a farm in Norway to prepare a terrorist attack ... A plan thwarted thanks to the interference and "the open and warm welcome inhabitants ". A series in 8x45 minutes "transgressive, zany and quite pleasing", according to Olivier Wotling, the director of the fiction of the Franco-German channel. The Finnish series
Mister 8
follows the adventures of Maria, CEO who juggles between seven lovers, and falls in love with an eighth man.
Israel also has two series in the running:
Unknowns
by Israeli-Palestinian director Tawfik Abu-Wael (
Our Boys
) about a group of marginalized young boys who are prime suspects in a rape case, and
Sad City Girls
, a comedy-drama about a close friendship in early twenties.
Canneséries welcomes two new countries to its selection: Serbia with
Awake
, a supernatural thriller about a detective charged with investigating a series of suspicious suicides and Argentina, with the Disney + series,
Limbo… Hasta que Lo Decida
, which follows a young heiress facing a complicated succession that will reveal her father's dark past.
The Italian series
Christian
features a mafia henchman who sees stigmata appear on his hands. The German production
The Allegation
revisits the Worms affair, a legal scandal
across
the Rhine. Finally, the Russian thriller
Dreams of Alice
follows a high school student, haunted by weird and bloody premonitory dreams, a creation produced by Valeriy Fedorovich and Evgeniy Nikishov of 1-2-3 Production, the team behind the hit Netflix original series
To the Lake
.
Actress and author Aisling Bea, recently seen in
Living with Yourself
on Netflix alongside Paul Rudd, is chairing the jury for the short format competition.
At his side in this jury, Marie Papillon and Assaad Bouab, alias Hicham Janowski in
Ten percent
.
The latter will meet the actress, director and screenwriter Fanny Sidney alias Camille Valentini in the ASK agency, who will come to present his hilarious and tender series for Arte,
Brigade Mobile
.
The selection of short formats will be unveiled this Wednesday at the Cannes press conference.
A host of stars on the pink carpet
The guest of honor of this edition will be Raoul Peck, who has come to present his latest creation
Exterminate All the Brutes
. After Judith Light, another small screen legend will receive the Variety Icon Award: Connie Britton, seen in
Spin City, 24, The West Wing, Friday Night Lights, Nashville
and most recently in HBO's biting latest nugget,
The White Lotus.
.
Its creator Mike White will be the subject of an online masterclass, as will Lynda Carter, the unforgettable WonderWoman of the two series of the 1970s. Marc Levy will speak about the adaptation of his novel
All these things that we do not know. is not said
in series for Canal + and Starzplay, with the director and screenwriter Miguel Courtois.
Another masterclass will be devoted to the pioneers of French animation series, Jean Chalopin and Bernard Deyriès, the creators of
Ulysse 31
.
Also present will be Phoebe Dynevor who plays Daphne in
The Chronicle of Bridgertons
and Laurie Nunn, the creator of
Sex Education
, they will be crowned respectively with the Figaro Madame statuette of the Rising star and the Kombini prize for engagement.
Series
Canneséries and Séries Mania festivals postponed to the fall
Culture
Michael K. Williams, eternal Omar of "The Wire", died at 54
Series
Festival
Cannes
Game Of Thrones