The star of X Files Gillian Anderson and the creator of Squid Game, Hwang Dong-hyeok, expected on the pink carpet… The organizers of Canneséries unveiled this Tuesday during a press conference in Paris the very promising season 5 program of the Côte d’Azur festival, which will be held in Cannes from April 1 to 5. They kept a few surprises for the seriesphiles unveiled this Wednesday at a press conference held in Cannes.
The first Chinese series in competition
Alban Lewi, the artistic director of the event, announced the list of ten short series in competition. in contention, Revenge of the Black Best Friendsan American satirical comedy created, co-written and co-produced by Amanda Parris, about the place of black characters in the entertainment industry; Platonic, a French romantic comedy created by Camille Rosset, Elie Girard which follows two divorced people with roommates; Normalolanda German anthology written by Matthias Thönnissen, Michael Halberstadt, Ben Rodrian; Night Cat Express: Night dreaman anthology made up of 13 urban parables, “the first Chinese series in competition”, welcomes Alban Lewi; It’s fine, I’m finean Australian series that follows a middle-aged therapist increasingly affected by her patients; hackedan Indian thriller about a young woman whose life is turned upside down when she rejects the advances of a teenage hacker; Helloa dark coming-of-age drama from Santiago Mouriño and Pablo Balmaceda; Everything You Love, a Norwegian series by Marie Hafting which asks how one manages when the person one loves becomes radicalized on an online far-right forum; the animated series Educational TV, “the first 100% animated series in competition”, underlines the artistic director”; and finally Completely high schoola Canadian teen drama set in New Garden Hills Valley High School.
A tribute to the composer of “Mission: Impossible”
For its fifth edition, the Canneséries festival will welcome the Orchester de Cannes, conducted by Benjamin Levy, during the closing ceremony. “It’s a dream for Benoit and me! We are going to pay homage to Lalo Schifrin with a collaboration with the Cannes orchestra on the occasion of the closing ceremony”, exclaims Alban Lewi. We owe in particular to the Argentine-American pianist, composer, arranger and conductor Lalo Schifrin the musical theme of the long television series Impossible mission and of Mannix.
In the cinema, he signed the mythical themes of Luke the cold hand, Bullit, THX 1138the film series dirty harry worn by Clint Eastwood from the late 1960s to the 1980s. The musician received an honorary Oscar in 2019 “in recognition of his unique musical style, his compositional integrity and his influential contributions to the art of music from movie.