A bulldozer named Arte. The Franco-German channel was in competition with four units, 90-minute TV films, at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival, which concluded on Sunday. She left Charente-Maritime with six of the nine trophies she could claim. Namely the prizes for young female hopeful (Amel Charif), best male performance (Pablo Pauly) and best direction (Jérôme Bonnell) for To joy. And those for best screenplay, young male hopeful (Oussama Kheddam) and best female performance (Louise Massin) for Loulou.
The trophy for best unit went to Drone Games by Olivier Abbou, soon to be put online on Amazon Prime Video. That of the best 52-minute series was awarded to Followa thriller from 13th Street where the community manager of the police headquarters investigates a serial killer plaguing Paris.
College students vote for YouTube
The jury chaired by Audrey Fleurot, and in which the actors Medi Sadoun and Constance Labbé included, therefore snubbed the proposals from the channels with the highest audiences. Even the schoolchildren voting for the college prize voted for the very short stories (2 minutes per episode) of the Acorns can’t jump visible on… YouTube.
M6 can console itself with the prize for best music awarded to Philippe Jakko for The Spies of Terrora mini-series, as effective as it is demanding, in four episodes, on the hunt for those responsible for the November 2015 attacks.
France Télévisions can say thank you to its France TV Slash platform. It is thanks to her that the public service has gleaned two awards: that of the best series of less than twenty minutes for documentary fiction Ocean : Make family and that of the best series 26 minutes for season 3 of Parliamenta funny dive into the mysteries of the European institution.
TF1 almost empty-handed
On the other hand, nothing for the mini-series All this I will give to you – updating of the great family sagas – nor for the three units competing under the France 2 banner. An unexpected destinyfreely inspired by the adventure of its director, Sonia Rolland, during the Miss France 2000 election, The enchanterretracing the deception of Romain Gary – played by Charles Berling – and his alter ego Emile Ajar, and Right of inspection, featuring a mother on the verge of losing her sight, left the Festival with nothing. Too consensual, perhaps, for a jury which limited itself to concentrating the majority of the trophies awarded around two fictions with more unexpected writings.
The TF1 group left empty-handed or almost: The Fightersa mini-series broadcast last year on the first channel, received the Prix Leisure TV of the best fiction following the vote of Internet users. He previewed The tribea drama about the vagaries of a blended family, adapted from a Swedish format, soon programmed on TF1 and Benoît Gênant Officiala series in several 26-minute episodes, the title role of which is played by Artus, expected on TMC.
In case there is a wound of pride, the historical channels will have to wait for the respective broadcasts of these new features to comfort themselves – the majority should end up finding their audience.
“What does it mean to be a good mother? »
Viewers can expect to see the theme of parenthood expressed in all registers. What does it mean to be a good father? and, above all, What does it mean to be a good mother? were the questions that tormented, explicitly or not, a good number of the fictions in competition at La Rochelle.
The multi-award winner Loulou, a sequel and TV film version of the humorous web series of the same title, features a single mother struggling to win back the attention and respect of her young son. Under a deliberately provocative title, Unworthy mother (France TV Slash) addresses the issue of mental burden and social pressure placed on single mothers by following a newly divorced woman – played by Anne-Elisabeth Blateau – in her attempt to be a “super mom”. In Right of inspectionin addition to having to prepare for the blindness to which she is condemned, Alexandra (Camille Goudeau) must prove that she is capable of continuing to raise her children alone.
On the dad side, The enchantedvery free adaptation of Remained by Jeanne Benameur, narrates, like a cruel tale, the fate of a little girl and her father, who has a slight mental handicap. In The girl we calla faithful adaptation of Tanguy Viel’s novel, the heroine’s father late in understanding the situation of control in which his daughter finds herself… And in The tribe from TF1, with the ball in the center everywhere, father and mother must adapt to the new situation of their blended family. In short, from one channel to another, it will be a bit like “parents, instructions for use”.