Norway has walked away from Canneseries as the massive winner this 12 months.
Two sequence from the Scandinavian nation, A Better Man and Nepobaby, every bagged a number of trophies on the Canneseries Awards yesterday, whereas The Agent: The Life and Lies of My Father received Best Docuseries.
A Better Man took dwelling the Best Series, the High School Award and Best Performance, with the latter award going to guide Anders Baasmo, who is understood for roles in reveals corresponding to NRK miniseries An Immortal Man, Swedish movie Arn – The Kingdom at Road’s End and Norway’s Kon-Tiki from 2012.
A Better Man follows Baasmo as Tom, a poisonous male who blames feminism for every little thing, however is pressured to cover in ladies’s clothes when his on-line trolling results in hackers exposing his id and most embarrassing secrets and techniques.
It comes from Norwegian producer Maipo Film in affiliation with Lithuania’s Artbox, and is for NRK in Norway and ZDF Neo in Germany, with Beta Film dealing with worldwide gross sales.
In the Best Series class, it beat Nepobaby, Malin-Sarah Gozin’s Dead End and Jonnydepony crime caper The Big Fuck Up from Belgium, German-Belgian sequence How to Kill Your Sister, Finnish present L/Over, Jean Charles Hue’s Malditos from France, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson-starrer Reykjavik Fusion and Korean psychological crime drama S Line.
Nepobaby, in the meantime, is for TV2 in Norway and produced Eldorado Content Club, with France’s Oble and Nordisk Film Distribution on gross sales. It’s from Siri Seljeseth and Pørni creator Henriette Steestrup, who stars alongside Vivild Falk Berg, Nicolai Cleve Broch, Henriette Steenstrup, Kristin Grue, Helle Eia and Deniz Kaya
It follows a girl, Emma (Berg), over at some point as she discovers she is the heiress to one in every of Norway’s oldest and wealthiest transport dynasties, and finds her new siblings should not happy along with her existence when her estranged father passes away.
The Agent: The Life and Lies of My Father is an NRK doc sequence a few man piecing collectively the lifetime of his father, who could have been an secret agent for the CIA. It took dwelling the Best Docuseries award.
S Line received Best Music, whereas Oh, Otto!, a Belgian sequence set within the Brussels queer group received the Best Short Form and Student awards. French actress Marie Colomb received the Rising Star Award, Bridgerton star Nicola Coughlan took dwelling the Commitment Award and Eric Rochant and the solid of his crime drama Le Bureau des Légendes bagged the icon award.