After an intense week of screenings and encounters, the Séries Mania festival closes its doors this Friday in Lille with the world premiere screening of Transatlanticthe new series from the creator ofUnorthodox, Anna Winger, for Netflix. The opportunity to unveil the favorites of this 2023 edition among the international, French and comedy competition.
“Red Skies” at the heart of the second Intifada
Immersed in the heart of the heart of the Israeli-Palestinian conflict! The Israeli series Red Skies follows the crossed fates of a trio of inseparable friends. The Palestinian Ali and the Israeli Sa’ar each find themselves on opposite sides when the second Intifada breaks out.
Jenny, an American journalist who appreciates both of them as much as the other, doesn’t know which side to lean on. The writer Daniel Shinar adapts his novel here with a mixed Israeli-Palestinian team, including the authors of No Man’s Land, Ron Leshem and Amit Cohen. A moving and breathtaking variation around the eternal theme of enemy brothers.
The ethical questions of “Best Interests”
It’s the story of a family faced with choices no parent would ever want to make. Written by the great Jack Thorne (Enola Holmes, The Virtues, This is England, Skins…) the British series Best Interests directed by Sharon Horgan (Bad Sisters, Disaster) and Michael Sheen (Good Omens, Masters of Sex) as a married couple who embark on a legal battle to have their disabled daughter’s medical care uninterrupted, when doctors believe it’s best for her to let her die. A touching drama that deals with crucial topics such as disability care and the ethical issues of assisted end of life.
“De Grace”, a dive into the world of dockers
A family tragedy among the dockers. Sublimated by the camera of Vincent Maël Cardona, director of the film Magnetics, Thanks, a Franco-Belgian miniseries expected this fall on Arte, features Olivier Gourmet in the skin of Pierre Leprieur, a respected figure in the powerful union of dockers in Le Havre and patriarch of a dysfunctional family. He finds himself confronted with a sprawling drug trade. Visually at the crossroads of Godfather and films by James Gray, a masterpiece of meticulous writing.
“Les Randonneuses”, six women at the top
This is the new drama created by Fanny Riedberger to whom we owe Toulouse-Lautrec high school. The Hikers, a miniseries to be discovered soon on TF1, follows six women suffering from cancer or in remission who take up the challenge of going on a hike to attack the Dôme de la Lauze, at nearly 4,000 meters above sea level. A portrait as funny as it is touching of six women at the top, embodied by a cast that commands respect, including Alix Poisson, Clémentine Célarié and Camille Chamoux.
“Aspergirl”, a fable that makes you laugh and think
A fable that makes you laugh and think! aspergirl, new signature OCS series features the tangy Nicole Ferroni in the superheroine costume of Louison, 38, a recently separated single mother. She discovers that she has Asperger’s autism at the same time as her 11-year-old son Guilhem is diagnosed with the same condition. The latter injured a classmate on the first day of school… A shimmering and sparkling reflection that questions the norm with an always benevolent look.