Series Mania celebrates youth and “The World of Tomorrow”

• The Séries Mania festival closed its doors this Friday.

• Nearly 70,000 festival-goers and some 3,300 professionals attended the event.

• The grand prize was awarded for the first time to a French series,

  The World of Tomorrow,

  an Arte series on the genesis of NTM and the hip-hop movement. 

Cock-a-doodle Doo !

The 4th edition of Séries Mania in Lille testifies both to the vigor of French seriphilia and to the rise of French fiction.

Nearly 70,000 festival-goers and some 3,300 professionals attended the event.

“The bet was not won.

We could never have done that anywhere else.

All the professionals tell us that they find the city magnificent and salute the intelligence, sensitivity and warmth of the public,” says the general director of the festival, Laurence Herzberg.

Review of eight intense days of screenings and meetings around more than 50 new series and the winners of Series Mania, placed under the sign of youth, unveiled this Friday during the closing ceremony.

For this 4th edition, Séries Mania had decided to entrust the presidency of the jury of its international competition to the Ukrainian producer, Julia Sinkevych, welcomed during the opening ceremony by a standing ovation.

“I had two emotional sequences, Julia Sinkevych on stage, it was very beautiful and the awarding of grants to Afghan artists.

Series Mania is this connection between what we do, people of culture, the party, the look on the world that the series carry and at the same time, we don't forget that other people are suffering, other artists are suffering and we have succeeded in integrating them into this week of communion around the series”, explains Laurence Herzberg.

And to add: “I used to say “the series look at the world” and there, the world entered Series Mania”

"The World of Tomorrow", Grand Jury Prize

The jury chaired by the Ukrainian Julia Sinkevych chose to reward the series of Arte

, which tells through the journeys of Kool Shen and JoeyStarr, not yet NTM, the emergence of the hip-hop movement and the youthful energy at that time.

A well-deserved prize.

Michelle de Swarte received Best Actress for her performance in

, a transgressive miniseries that treats motherhood like a horror movie, Yehuda Levi won Best Actor for his role as charismatic ultra community leader Nathan. -Orthodox, with whom a teenage girl is in love, in

.

Teenagers in the foreground

The international panorama jury chaired by novelist and screenwriter Anne Berest awarded its prize for the best series to the Scandinavian fiction

, and the special jury prize to

, a series which questions the influence had Covid-19 on two teenage girls.

The international student jury praised

On the side of the French competition, full box for France.tv Slash,

, moving fiction on the transition to adulthood which follows the trajectory of Sasha, intersex person, received the prize for the best series, the trio of musical teen-drama 

formed by Inès Ouchaaou, Charlie Loiselier and Assa Sylla received the award for best actress, while Axel Granberger received the award for best actor for his performance in the Arte series,

.

The prize for the best original music went to Clément Doumic, Antoine Wilson, Sébastien Wolf de Feu!

Chatterton for the OCS series

.

This brilliant drama set in aerobics and aerospace espionage follows the emancipation of a group of women and teenage girls in the 1980s. The prize for best comedy goes to

.

In terms of short formats, the jury chaired by David Hourrègue rewarded

, a love story between two young women, and a special mention for the meta and new season of the Arte web series,

p.m.

The audience award goes to the hilarious dark British drama

, which follows the strange fate of 18-year-old Danny, who grew up cut off from the world, and his budding friendship with his cousin Aaron.

More than ever, the winners of Series Mania paid tribute to the youth, those of today, of tomorrow and those cut off in their tracks.

The festival ended with the moving and highly anticipated Disney+ series,

.

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