(Paris) Gillian Anderson, Soprano and Sydney Sweeney on the “pink carpet”: the Canneseries festival launched its fifth edition with great fanfare on Friday, rolling out its pink carpet on the Croisette for six days of “glamorous” and “ popular”.
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After two editions postponed to the fall due to the health crisis, Canneseries, backed by MIPTV (international TV program market, from April 4 to 6) thus regains its spring setting.
Impossible, however, to inaugurate the event “without having a huge thought for the Ukrainian people”, launched the president of the festival, Fleur Pellerin, during the opening ceremony.
“Culture is one of the foundations of a democratic and enlightened life”, she notably underlined to justify the maintenance of cultural events in these troubled times.
Party time, therefore, lit up on Friday by the unforgettable agent Scully of X FilesGillian Anderson, who came to receive the “Variety Icon Award” for her emblematic career in the history of the small screen, from Sex Education at The Crown.
“Hallo”
The young Sydney Sweeney was also awarded a prize by Madame Figaro devoting her status as a rising star, before the public at the Palais des Festivals discovered the blockbuster Halo (Paramount+).
Taken from the eponymous blockbuster on Microsoft’s Xbox consoles and co-produced by Amblin, Steven Spielberg’s studio, this intergalactic war story will be broadcast in April on Canal+, partner of the Riviera festival, which also has two original creations out of the four offered out of competition. .
On Saturday, festival-goers will discover the miniseries Infiniti – science fiction thriller with Céline Sallette, shot in Ukraine and Kazakhstan – two days before its arrival on the encrypted channel.
And on Wednesday, Jonathan Cohen, who inaugurated the 2020 edition with The flamewill close this 5and season with its sequel, The Flambeau, the adventurers of Chupacabraparody of Koh Lanta.
In the meantime, TF1 will present Visionsparanormal thriller starring Louane.
On the competition side, among 180 series received, ten from nine countries compete in the long format category, and ten for the short formats.
Fanny Herrero President
The long series will be submitted to a jury chaired by the creator of Funny and Ten percentFanny Herrero, surrounded by actors Anne Marivin, Denis O’Hare, Olafur Darri Olafsson, Sami Outalbali, and composer Daniel Pemberton.
Games of influence, the fightersa sequel to the Arte series created by Oscar-winning documentary filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade on the pesticide lobby, will represent France.
It will face two German series: soulsa work of “chilling science fiction”, and Punishmentkind of black-mirror in the world of justice, prohibited at least 16 years old and taken from a collection of short stories by Ferdinand von Schirach.
Spanish series (The Immortalon a guy from the 80s and 90s), Belgian (1985on the case of the “Brabant killers”), Norwegian (Afterglow sort of cross between The big C and This is us) complete the selection.
Added to this is the Israeli The Lessonwhere a political discussion between a teacher and a high school girl degenerates, the Canadian Audrey came backabout a woman emerging from a 16-year-old coma, the Italian bang bang baby“explosion of colors” in the world of the mafia, and the Danish The dreamerabout the author of The African FarmKaren Blixen.
Invited free of charge to the “Cannes meetings”, the general public will also be able to attend five-star meetings, with in particular Gillian Anderson or the rapper Soprano, hero of a Disney + documentary series, who walked the pink carpet from Friday.
actors from More beautiful lifefrom the series for teens Skam, which will receive the Konbini commitment prize on Wednesday, or the director Ovidie are among the other personalities announced, the creator of Squid GameHwang Dong-hyuk, in front of him meet the professionals.
In October, Canneseries had welcomed 25,000 participants.