La Rochelle (AFP)
The jury of the 21st La Rochelle Fiction TV Festival crowned the French series 2 "Une belle histoire" and "Mental", a series of the online platform Slash, on Saturday.
"A beautiful story", Frédéric Krivine's new creation ("A French village" and "PJ"), received the prize for the best long series.
It tells the cross roads of three couples in search of happiness, including one played by Sébastien Chassagne and Tiphaine Daviot.
The best series in the 26-minute category, "Mental", films with warmth the evolution of four teenagers in a child psychiatric service, for pedagogical purposes: to say that "there is no harm in going bad", according to its producer.
It will be broadcast from October 25 on Slash, the platform of France Télévisions thought for young people.
The best TV movie award goes to Edouard Deluc's "Temps de chien" (Arte), where Philippe Rebbot plays a drifting captain who finds himself a companion in misfortune.
The jury chaired by the actress Valérie Karsenti also crowned Arte in the category "web" with its crazy series "Lost in Traplanta", where the Belgian comedian Kody Kim is illustrated.
To seduce a woman, his character plunges into Atlanta music and tries to find the legendary hip-hop group of the city, Outkast, for it to reform.
The prize for best female performance was awarded jointly to Luna Carpiaux, for "Connexion Intime" on France 2, and Cécile Rebboah for "Route of a brave mother" on TF1.
Yannick Choirat wins the Best Actor Award for his role as a rape victim in "A damaged man" (France 2 and TV5 Monde).
In the European selection, the jury has crowned the Spanish series "Arde Madrid" (best European fiction), the Finnish "Invisible heroes" (special jury prize) and the Swiss "Helvetica" (best foreign francophone series).
© 2019 AFP