2020 Canneseries

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2020 Cannes International Series Festival
Location Cannes, France
Founded2018
AwardsBest Series (Partisan)
Festival date9–14 October 2020
Website canneseries.com/en
Canneseries

The 3rd Cannes International Series Festival is a television festival that took place in Cannes, France. [1] The festival was scheduled to be held on 27 March to 1 April but postponed to 9 to 14 October, due to COVID-19 pandemic-related concerns and was held in-person/virtual hybrid. [2] American writer and director Darren Star served as the patron of the festival edition. [3]

Contents

The Best Series of the Festival award went to the Swedish crime drama Partisan. [4]

Juries

The following juries were named for the festival. [5]

Competition

Short Form Competition

Official selection

In competition

The following series were selected to compete: [6]

TitleOriginal titleCreator(s)Production countrie(s)Network
257 Reasons to Live 257 prichin chtoby zhitAlexey LyapichevRussia Start, TNT
Atlantic Crossing Alexander Eik Norway NRK1
Cheyenne and LolaCheyenne et LolaVirginie BracFrance, Belgium OCS Max
Losing Alice Le'abed et Alice Sigal Avin Israel Hot 3, Apple TV+
Man in Room 301Huone 301Finland Elisa Viihde
MolochArnaud MalherbeFrance Arte
Partisan Amir Chamdin & Fares Fares & Mauricio MolinariSweden Viaplay
Red Light Halina Reijn & Carice van Houten Belgium, Netherlands NPO 1, VTM
Top Dog Jens Lapidus & Veronica ZaccoSweden ZDFneo, TV4
Truth Seekers Nick Frost & Simon Pegg & Nat Saunders & James SerafinowiczUnited Kingdom Amazon Prime Video

Short Form Competition

The following series were selected to compete:

TitleOriginal titleCreator(s)Production countrie(s)
BroderJonathan Barg & Mauro Pérez Quinteros & Andrés Sehinkman & Leandro VitalArgentina
Christmas on Blood MountainJul i BlodfjellLars Kristian Flemmen & Christopher Pahle & Martin ZimmerNorway
Claire and the ElderlyClaire et les vieuxPatrick Bilodeau & Charles Grenier & Edith Morin & Sarah PellerinCanada
CryptidDaniel di Grado & Sylvain RunbergSweden
Deadhouse Dark Enzo Tedeschi Australia
Dog DaysAmours d'OccasionEva KabuyaCanada
First Person Renuka Jeyapalan & Tyler Levine & Patrice TherouxCanada
TonyMalena FilmusArgentina
The Writers. A Short Series.Pisarze. Serial na krótko.Mikołaj LizutPoland
Zero DayUnited States, France

Out of competition

The following series were screened out of competition: [6]

TitleOriginal titleCreator(s)Production countrie(s)Network
Call My Agent! (season 4) (closing series)Dix pour cent Fanny Herrero France France 2
The Flame(opening series)La FlammeFlorent Bernard & Jonathan Cohen & Jérémie GalanFrance Canal+
#FREERAYSHAWN Marc MaurinoUnited States Quibi
OVNI(s)Clémence Dargent & Martin DouaireFrance Canal+
Shadowplay Måns Mårlind France, Canada, Germany ZDF, Viaplay, Canal+, Canal+ Poland, NPO 1

Awards

The following awards were presented at the festival: [7]

Special awards

The following honorary awards were presented at the festival: [8] [9] [10]

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