Organized six months after the previous one, this edition of the Lille Festival confirmed the vitality of the French fiction and the importance of the demonstration on the world series of series.
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Two French series, funny and Ouskine will have opened on March 18, then closed, this Friday, March 25, the Festival Series Mania, Lille, in style every time. And it’s still a hexagonal series, [Nute] tomorrow, who won the Grand Prix of the International Competition. Organized six months after the previous one, offbeat due to pandemic, this edition affirmed the ability of French fiction to seduce its audiences and claim its place on the international scene. A radiation made easier by the presence of its productions on the platforms.
ousekine, ample and moving evocation of the death of the young manifestant under the blows of the police in 1986, will be available before the end of the year on Disney +, funny looking at Netflix. As for the world of tomorrow, chronicle of the first years of hip-hop in France, centered around the characters of Joey Starr, Kool Shen and Dee Nasty, it will be visible in autumn on Arte before the series migrates to Netflix; It is the perfect example of a written narrative as a series (under the leadership of the Duo Vincent Poymiro-David Elkaim) and staged as a feature film (by the Filmmakers Helier Cisterne and Katell Quillévérée).
The jurors of the international competition, under the auspices of the Ukrainian producer Julia Sinkevych, have submitted the interpretation prices to Michelle de Swarte, who embodies a female retaw to maternity that the spell afflicts of an infernal baby. In the British comedy The Baby, and Judah Levy for his role as Rabbi taken in a furious quarrel of succession in an Orthodox community, in Fire Dance, signed by Israeli filmmaker Ramah Burstein.
Societal subjects to honor
The rest of this international selection was essentially dedicated to the analysis and criticism of various institutions: the French army, in sentinels which staged a unit of the army during the operation “Barkhane “In Mali (on OCS on April 5th), an Italian prison in it re (the king), the Baltimore police in the United States in WE Own This City (always on OCS, April 26) or Finance and Trade International in the intriguing transport, Finnish series showing international horseback traffic.
Everyone in their own way, these stories – of which, it is the rule of the game of the festival, we discovered the two or three first episodes – use the cutting and duration of the serial form to dissect the contradictions of a organization, offsets between the speeches of its members and their actions.
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