The sixth season of CANNESERIES, the Cannes International Series Festival, will take place from April 14-19, 2023, with series from around the world in competition, previews, honors, and meets and master classes. Here is the program of this free festival, the opening of which will be broadcast live on Canal+.

The official program of CANNESERIES, the sixth of the name, whose opening ceremony will be moderated by Camille Chamoux and broadcast live on Canal+, was unveiled on Tuesday. An extremely rich vintage that promises to be exciting this year with 10 long-format series, 10 short series and, for the first time, 6 documentary series.

CANNESERIES will also offer 4 out-of-competition series:

– Silo (United Kingdom), opening. A British series set in a dystopian universe where the remnants of humanity are holed up in a bunker with no prior knowledge of the world.

– BRI, the new Canal+ Original Creation (coming soon to air on the channel), a highly efficient detective series by Jérémie Guez.

– The fabulous Mrs. Maisel, that’s it. CANNESERIES will pay tribute to the series in the presence of the team as it enters its fifth and final season.

– Fatale Attraction (USA), an adaptation of the 1980s cult film starring Joshua Jackson (Dawson) and Lizzy Caplan, reprises the roles of Michael Douglas and Glenn Close.

Series competition in long format

The long series competition jury will be chaired by Lior Raz (Fauda). The actor, screenwriter and producer is joined by actresses Shirine Boutella (Lupin) and Zabou Breitman (Kitchen and Addictions), as well as actor Daryl McCormack (Peaky Blinders) and Police drummer Stewart Copeland.

The long series competition brings together 10 series. It has 9 different nationalities and 7 previews.

– Bargain (South Korea). Based on a very strong concept (it is advisable not to read the synopsis beforehand in order to fully understand it), this series to be released on Paramount+ has the particularity of being shot entirely in a sequential shot, which allows the viewer like in a video game or an escape game.

– Good Morning Chuck or the Art of Harm Reduction (Canada). The Invincibles director’s new series is a black-and-white tragic comedy with a jazzy soundtrack.

– Carthage (Israel). In 1942, under the name of Elijah Levi, he immersed himself with wild humor in a British camp for Fascist and Nazi prisoners set up in the middle of Africa.

– Childhood Dreams (Netherlands). This drama is the bittersweet chronicle of a family that spans multiple generations.

– Cord (Israel). The new series from All Eyes On Me director Hadas Ben Aroya explores the love affairs of Tel Aviv’s younger generation.

– Dead wrestlers (USA). Alice Birch (screenwriter of The Young Lady and Normal People) is offering an adaptation of the David Cronenberg film Faux-Semblants (1988) in which Rachel Weisz plays two perverted twins.

– Powerplay (Norway). The series returns with an unconventional tone to the true story of Gro Harlem Brundtland, a young doctor who got into politics by accident and became Norway’s first female prime minister in 1981.

– prisoner. This Danish series delves into a hyper-realistic prison universe. Faced with overcrowding and a dire lack of funds, the guards find themselves powerless in the face of the rise of communitarianism.

– Crackhead. This first African competition series depicts the horrific life of gangs in the suburbs of Johannesburg where young people indulge in spinning, those dangerous adrenaline-fuelled auto rodeos.

– Beat. The French Netflix series about the famous businessman with an unrecognizable Laurent Laffite portrays “the St. Bernard of losers rather than the St. Bernard of victory,” as announced by CANNESERIES Artistic Director Albin Lewy.

Short Series Competition

The short series competition jury will be chaired by screenwriters and producers Javier Calvo and Javier Ambrossi (Holy Camp!). They are joined by comedian Marina Rollman and actress Simona Tabasco (The White Lotus).

The 10 series of competitions put 9 countries in the spotlight.

– appetite. A series between thriller and social criticism from Australia.

– Dead easy. A Norwegian sketch comedy.

– Groundbreaking (Ireland/USA). A wacky series described as a cross between Deterorists and The Office, with a touch of mystique.

– Looks good. A Canadian comedy about a group of friends with cystic fibrosis.

– Miss. Inspired by real events, the series looks back to the 1976 coup in Argentina and the dictatorship that followed, in which babies and children were stripped of their identities to be entrusted to new families.

– Out of touch. A Swedish series that follows the codes of romantic comedy but with a supernatural twist.

– Roommate. Between Girls and The L Word, this Belgian series follows the daily lives of two lesbian friends.

– Sensitive terrain. French series about the love story between Inès and Slimane in a town in Marseille.

– The left-handed sound. This Spanish series follows a mother whose son became radicalized in a neo-Nazi group.

– Streams flow from a river. This Canadian drama shows the difficult everyday life of an immigrant family living in Canada.

Documentary series competition

The documentary series competition jury is chaired by Asif Kapadia and consists of screenwriter and director Nathalie Marchak and journalist and producer Mélissa Theuriau.

– Draw for change! (Belgium). A strong series about illustrators in different countries of the world, rebels who are sometimes threatened with censorship, even the death penalty as in the first episode set in Idlib, Syria.

– Juan Carlos – Fall of the King (Germany). This thriller returns to the allegations that weighed on the former King of Spain.

– Lac-Mégantic – This is not an accident (Canada). This series chronicles a train disaster that killed 47 people and shows that the accident theory is not true.

– Miracle No. 71 (Belgium). The story of a director suffering from multiple sclerosis who goes to Lourdes and dreams of one day being able to get out of the wheelchair she has been in for ten years.

– Reread Mafalda (Argentina). The series returns to the famous character Mafalda, from her beginnings to the present day, with the history of Argentina as a watermark.

– Chevaline (France). The Canal+ series returns to the affair that happened on September 5th, 2012 in the town of Chevaline, with new insights and in particular a revolutionary 3D reconstruction tool to try to unravel what remains a mystery to this day.

honor awards

– The Madame Figaro Rising Star Award is presented to Lord of the Rings series actress Morfydd Clark.

– The Canal + Icon Award goes to Buffy the Vampire Slayer actress Sarah Michelle Gellar (who will be giving a master class on the 19th).

– The Konbini Commitment award goes to Joey Soloway, screenwriter of Transparent, Six Feet Under and I Love Dick (whose Masterclass is also on the 19th).

Meet at Miramar

Between dedications, screenings and meetings, a total of twenty meetings are planned at the Miramar. Including an enticing focus on three South Korean series, Island, Pale Moon and Midnight Horrors 6 Different Nights, but also showing the first episode of Un, dos, Tres Nouvelle Génération, in the presence of the stars of the series or even showing the first episode of the Netflix series Tour de France in the heart of the peloton.

As a reminder, the festival is free and open to everyone. Please note that reservations can only be made online on the event website. Herefrom March 29th for residents of Cannes and from March 31st for everyone.