Our favorites at the CannesSeries festival

Fleur Pellerin's speech on culture and Ukraine, the iconic Gillian Anderson on the pink carpet, the infectious energy of Maya Landsmann, the tears in the eyes of the

….

Season 5 of CanneSeries went through all the colors of the rainbow of emotions!

While festival-goers will discover this Wednesday evening at the end of the closing ceremony the first episodes of Le

, the sequel to the hit Canal+ series,

,

takes stock of six days of very rich screenings .

Our favorites of this season 5 of the Riviera festival.

"1985"

A fiction about the end of the age of innocence.

, the first series co-produced by the country's two public channels RTBF and VRT, follows the move to Brussels and the entry into adulthood of Vicky, her brother Franky and her best friend Marc.

While Vicky begins studying law at the Free University of Brussels, Marc and Franky take their first steps as recruits in the Belgian gendarmerie.

Their lives will become involved in the (still unresolved) case of the Brabant killings, several waves of armed attacks and assassinations that shook Belgium from 1982 to 1985. The three young people will gradually lose their illusions just like the country's faith in justice, politics and law enforcement.

Created by Willem Wallyn (

) and directed by Wouter Bouvijn (

and

two series previously awarded at the Canneseries),

skilfully weaves together the touching intimate stories of its fictional protagonists with one of the darkest episodes in Belgian history. .

The series will be broadcast in 2023 in Belgium and France on Canal+

"Audrey is back"

A funny and tender drama!

Written by Florence Longpré and Guillaume Lambert and directed by Guillaume Lonergan,

, the first Quebec fiction to appear in official competition in the long format category at Canneseries, follows Audrey, a 34-year-old woman (played by Florence Longpré) who wakes up miraculously from a long coma, sixteen years after being found unconscious on a country road.

In the meantime, many things have changed around Audrey, society as well as her family and loved ones.

While Audrey will have to recover her memory and learn to live again, her awakening will upset the lives of those around her.

The success of this fiction is based on sharp, funny lines, an impeccable cast and its ability to play with breaks in tone.

“Afterglow”

A moving Norwegian fiction, but never pathos, greeted by a standing ovation this Tuesday at the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière of the Palais des Festivals in Cannes.

Created by Atle Knudsen and Kjetil Indregard, the

series follows Ester Sand, a woman who learns on her 40th birthday that she has cervical cancer.

A news that will turn his world upside down.

But after the initial shock, it is Ester who comforts the people in her life: her husband with whom she has been a united couple for twenty years, her children, her father, her friends.

But the luminous Ester has neither the intention of letting herself down nor of dying, on the contrary she wants to take full advantage of every moment she has to live.

achieves the feat of making us deeply love Ester and her band in just a few minutes.

An ode to life, where we laugh while crying, where we cry while laughing.

“The Lesson”

After setting the pink carpet on fire last year with Sad City Girls, Maya Landsmann returns to the Croisette with a series that has become a social phenomenon in Israel.

In The Lesson, created by Deakla Keydar and directed by Eitan Zur (Asylum City, BeTipul, the original version of In Therapy), she plays Lian, an impetuous 17-year-old student, including a political discussion with Amir, a liberal teacher and anti- 43-year-old army, turns to boxing.

While the young woman says that she and her friends were harassed by Arab people at the swimming pool the day before, very quickly, the young woman makes racist remarks.

Remarks condemned by the professor, but which arouse great support in the class... Beyond depicting the explosive political reality in Israel, The Lesson shows to what extent,

in the era of fake news and social networks, the difficulty of debating calmly.

This series that asks the right questions and from which we do not come out unscathed!

“El Immortal”

A classic mafia story, but brilliantly executed!

El Inmortal tells the true story of Los Miami, a gang that controlled cocaine trafficking and Madrid's nightlife in the 1980s and 1990s. El Inmortal follows Jose Antonio's rise to head this organization, everyone's fear.

A man who became one of the most powerful drug traffickers in Europe and a legend because he survived an incredible number of assassination attempts.

In El Inmortal, the furious violence of Jose Antonio and his gang seems to echo the effervescence of post-Franco Spain.

Supported by an impeccable cast, careful production and a boosted soundtrack, this series will delight fans of the genre.

“Night Cat Express: Night Dream”

Night Cat Express: Night Dream, the first Chinese series presented on the Croisette, is competing in the short format competition.

This anthology, created by Wei Huang, Yirui Wang, Chuan Wang and Ye Shu, consists of thirteen strange nocturnal tales.

Each tale is initiated by an exchange between the main protagonist of the story and a mysterious cat.

This visually abundant anthology questions, like Black Mirror, the darkest sides of humanity and our contemporary societies.

Night Cat Express: Night Dream shows how our insatiable desires can turn against us... A series that further proves the vitality of artistic creativity in Asia.

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