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The divisions of Israeli society, a science fiction tale and a fable about disability and convalescence... For its fifth edition, CanneSéries has embraced the diversity and lush creativity of audiovisual production.
Full of grace, the president of the jury Fanny Herero confided that the ten soap operas in competition were of an irreproachable quality and that none had disappointed.
She also had a compliment for each.
Faced with this wealth and proliferation, she and her friends have however made assumed and supported choices.
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Rather than multiplying the winners and distributing the awards, the jury chose a compact prize list by awarding three series twice.
The prize for best long series and best performer goes to Israeli drama
The Lesson
and its force of nature performer Maya Landsmann.
A social phenomenon in Israel and screened on the first day of CannesSeries,
The Lesson
left a deep mark on the jury and recounts the ongoing confrontation of a rebellious high school student and an education teacher on the issue of racism and the treatment of Arabs in the Hebrew State.
He fights to destigmatize his neighbors, she campaigns for their exclusion from the local swimming pool.
Social media and misinformation will only escalate their feud.
Picking up her trophy, Maya Landsmann exclaimed:
“Living in Israel is magical but frustrating.
May art help us to overcome our personal and state prejudices”.
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Looking for French broadcasters
The Dior grand prize and the special interpretation prize, which rewards an entire cast, went to the bittersweet Quebec comedy
Audrey returned
, signed by one of the most prominent creators and actresses of La Belle Province of Florence Longpre.
The former caregiver embodies the return to life of Audrey who wakes up after 15 years in a coma.
How to bring back a body whose muscles have atrophied?
How to recover language and vocabulary word by word and find one's own in a disrupted friendly and family environment?
The series brings humor and seriousness together with an unexpected strangeness.
Audrey has a giant raven as an imaginary friend.
We have rarely found since
Patients
of Grand Corps Malade such a fine and authentic evocation of disability and the slow process of rehabilitation and re-education.
A final duplicate came to crown
Souls
.
In the vein of
Dark
, this German sci-fi production is based on a web of temporalities and follows a teenager, who pretends to live with the memories of a past life.
That of a heroic pilot, whose plane had been hijacked by terrorists.
Despite a confused introductory episode, this fresco by Alex Elsam received the prize for screenplay and music.
The most beautiful ovation of the festival, the Norwegian production
Afterglow
on the reaction of a mother, when diagnosed with cancer, leaves with the prize for high school students.
Inspired by the fate of the creator's wife, taken away by illness, this series is full of life and color.
It now remains for all these winning series to find a French broadcaster.
After an effective closing ceremony accompanied by the Cannes orchestra, which paid tribute to the legendary composer of
Mission: impossible
Lalo Schifrin, the Lumière auditorium welcomed a final wave of clamor for the preview of Le
Flambeau,
the sequel to the series parody
The Flame
.
This time, Jonathan Cohen, very prominent with the cinema release of
At the same time,
is having fun with Koh Lanta-style adventure games.
Highly motivated, the public at the Palais des Festivals repeatedly chanted the thunderous “Maaaaaaaarc”.
It's up to the Film Festival audience to be just as shrill next month.