Peacock’s Apples Never Fall, MGM+’s Hotel Cocaine and NRK’s buzzy drama about Leonard Cohen, So Long, Marianne shall be within the International Competition at Series Mania in March.
The reveals shall be up towards BBC Three’s UK sequence Boarders, France 2 drama Dans L’Ombre (In the Shadows), ARD’s German sequence Herrhausen, the Banker and the Bomb (Herrhausen, Der Herr Des Geldes), ABC Australi’s House of Gods, and Franco-Hungarian co-production Rematch, which is for Arte, Disney+ and HBO Europe.
The reveals comprise an fascinating cross-section of U.S. and European initiatives, with the Anette Bening-starring thriller Apples Never Fall among the many highest profile. Hot Cocaine, a few Cuban expatriate who re-made his life in Miami, is amongst MGM+’s largest current bets, whereas So Long, Marianne has been constructing steam as a research into the lifetime of singer-songwriter Cohen and his muse, Marianne Ihlen.
The International Competition jury will comprise French-American director and screenwriter Zal Batmanglij (A Murder on the End of the World, The OA), German actor Malick Bauer (Sam: a Saxon), French-Argentinian actress Berenice Bejo, French-Swedish director Charlotte Brändström (The Lord of the Rings: The Rings of Power, Occupied), and French actor and producer Sofiane Zermani (The Wages of Fear, Spirit of Ecstasy).
They will award a Grand Prize for Best Series and gongs for Best Script, Best Actress and Best Actor.
The International Panorama competitors, whose jury chair is American author Douglas Kennedy, will see TV4 and C-More’s Swedish sequence 8 Months (Doktrinen), SWR’s German present 30 Days of Lust (30 Tage Lust), TVNZ’s New Zealand present After the Party, Scandinavian co-pro All and Eva (All Och Eva), Showmax’s UK-South African drama Catch Me a Killer, NRK’s Norwegian entry Dates in Real Life, Atresplayer’s Spanish streamer sequence La Mesías and Show Yourself (Dejate Ver), Canada’s Société Distinct (Distinct Society), Latvian comedy Soviet Jeans (Padomju Dzinsi), Taiwan’s Three Tears in Borneo and Channel 4’s UK comedy-drama Truelove.
The French Competition will pit OCS’s Homejacking, Arte’s Le Monde M’Existe Pas (The World Does Not Exist) and Machine, M6’s Murder Club, Prime Video’s Ourika, and France Télévisions’ One Amitié Dangereuse (A Dangerous Friendship).
The occasion will run on March 15-22 in Line, France.
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