In addition to jury lineup, Canneseries highlights Israeli filmmaker Talya Lavie’s comedy-drama Sad City Girls and Finnish director Teemu Nikki dark comedy Mister8 are among 10 new international series selected for the section at French TV festival Canneseries as part of its competition line up, which started past October 8-13.
Now in its fourth edition, Canneseries that was originally conceived to coincide with the MIP-TV content market in Cannes in the spring. However, the Covid-19 pandemic has pushed it into the autumn for two years to run alongside MIPCOM, which returns as a physical event this year.
The jury competition will formed as chairman by actor and producer, Nikolaj Coster-Waldau, along with writer Sigal Avin, actress Naidra Ayadi, actor Salvatore Esposito and composer musical Marco Prince.
The first series, Sad City Girls is the Talya Lavie first TV show after feature film Zero Motivation. Produced by Yoav Gross Productions and broadcasted on HOT (Israel)
While Mister8 is the latest collaboration from Nikki and producer-writer Jani Pösö under the banner of their Helsinki-based company It’s Alive Films. Is a dark comedy about a high-flying chief executive with seven husbands – one for each day of the week. When she falls in love with an eighth man this poses a problem as there are not enough days in the week.
Also the Cold War thriller series Totems, the big-budget original European productions greenlit by Amazon Prime Video, which it’s part of its investment in European content. The series stars Niels Schneider, Vera Kolesnikova, José Garcia, Lambert Wilson and Ana Girardot and is produced by Isabelle Degeorges and Arnaud de Crémiers, Olivier Dujols and Jérôme Salle for Gaumont.
The Argentinean series Limbo… Hasta Que Lo Decida, produced by Pampa Films, Gloriamundi Producciones and Star Original for SVOD Star+. The series follows the story of Sofía (Clara Lago), a young millionaire who seems to have it all: a glamorous life, a family that indulges her every whim, and great friends who are her accomplices in a daring lifestyle.
Following All The Way Up, created and directed by French actor and director Franck Gastambide, who will also act as the master of ceremonies on the opening night. This title will open the festival
Italian drama Gomorra (Final Season), drama inspired by Roberto Saviano’s best-seller about the Naples crime scene, will close the festival out the competition.
The festival will also showcase another two big drama productions out of Competition: Around The World In 80 Days, starring David Tennant as the 19th-century adventurer Phileas Fogg, and Sisi, starring Swiss-US actress Dominique Devenport (Night Train to Lisbon) as the legendary 19th-century Empress Elisabeth of Austria.
