Peacock’s Apples By no means Fall, MGM+’s Lodge Cocaine and NRK’s buzzy drama about Leonard Cohen, So Lengthy, Marianne will probably be within the Worldwide Competitors at Sequence Mania in March.
The exhibits will probably be up in opposition to BBC Three’s UK sequence Boarders, France 2 drama Dans L’Ombre (Within the Shadows), ARD’s German sequence Herrhausen, the Banker and the Bomb (Herrhausen, Der Herr Des Geldes), ABC Australi’s Home of Gods, and Franco-Hungarian co-production Rematch, which is for Arte, Disney+ and HBO Europe.
The exhibits comprise an fascinating cross-section of U.S. and European tasks, with the Anette Bening-starring thriller Apples By no means Fall among the many highest profile. Sizzling Cocaine, a few Cuban expatriate who re-made his life in Miami, is amongst MGM+’s greatest latest bets, whereas So Lengthy, Marianne has been constructing steam as a examine into the lifetime of singer-songwriter Cohen and his muse, Marianne Ihlen.
The Worldwide Competitors jury will comprise French-American director and screenwriter Zal Batmanglij (A Homicide on the Finish 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 Energy, Occupied), and French actor and producer Sofiane Zermani (The Wages of Worry, Spirit of Ecstasy).
They may award a Grand Prize for Greatest Sequence and gongs for Greatest Script, Greatest Actress and Greatest Actor.
The Worldwide Panorama competitors, whose jury chair is American author Douglas Kennedy, will see TV4 and C-Extra’s Swedish sequence 8 Months (Doktrinen), SWR’s German present 30 Days of Lust (30 Tage Lust), TVNZ’s New Zealand present After the Celebration, 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 Actual Life, Atresplayer’s Spanish streamer sequence La Mesías and Present Your self (Dejate Ver), Canada’s Société Distinct (Distinct Society), Latvian comedy Soviet Denims (Padomju Dzinsi), Taiwan’s Three Tears in Borneo and Channel 4’s UK comedy-drama Truelove.
There may also be a European premiere for Netflix’s 3 Physique Drawback, the upcoming drama sequence from Sport of Thrones showrunners David Benioff and D. B. Weiss and The Terror co-creator Alexander Woo.
The French Competitors will pit OCS’s Homejacking, Arte’s Le Monde M’Existe Pas (The World Does Not Exist) and Machine, M6’s Homicide Membership, Prime Video’s Ourika, and France Télévisions’ One Amitié Dangereuse (A Harmful Friendship).
Sequence Mania Normal Director Laurence Herszberg and President Anne Bouverot mentioned in an announcement, “Greater than ever, TV sequence mirror the sweeping technological and geopolitical modifications at play on the planet.”
They famous this 12 months’s occasion marks the primary time no Israeli productions will characteristic, as a result of ongoing battle within the area. Entries from Russia and Ukraine are additionally all the way down to as a result of Jap European battle and U.S. entries dipped as a result of labor strikes.
“This 12 months being marked by a number of worldwide crises, the TV enterprise and, consequently, the pageant are each affected,” they mentioned. “The present Russo-Ukrainian battle and Israel–Hamas battle have drastically lowered the variety of candidates from these territories. In Israel, many ongoing tasks have been shut down, making it not possible for Sequence Mania to incorporate an Israeli manufacturing this 12 months, for the primary time ever. South America remains to be experiencing geopolitical and financial turbulence.
“As for the U.S, the Hollywood strike that paralyzed movie and TV manufacturing final 12 months for a number of months explains why the 2024 lineup comprises fewer American premieres. On this regard, we’re delighted to welcome entries from newcomer nations who rose to the event, and shocked us with content material whose high quality matches the creativity of the international locations quickly absent this 12 months.”
In complete, Sequence Mania will characteristic 52 unreleased sequence, 26 world premieres, 15 worldwide premieres and 21 international locations represented. Final 12 months, round 85,000 folks participated general, with 3,800 registered for the industry-focused Sequence Mania Discussion board. The screenings are free to attend.
The occasion will run on March 15-22 in Line, France.
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