the Séries Mania festival in Lille unveils its program and its guests

The hero of SuccessionBrian Cox, the director Cédric Klapisch or the actress Cécile de France will take part in the Series Mania festival in Lille from March 17 to 24. The programming for this 2023 edition will be marked by the 80s and 90s and ecology. For this 5th edition in Hauts-de-France, the organizers have chosen “54 series of 24 nationalities“after viewing”396 from 62 countries“, underlined the general manager, Laurence Herszberg, during a press conference.

Europe’s biggest event dedicated to series returns from March 17 to 24, 2023!

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And “huge job“which reflects the vitality of a sector”florissant“, where countries such as Greece, Pakistan or Benin will be represented for the first time. The festivities will begin with the preview screening of the highly anticipated Greek salad by Cédric Klapish (Prime Video), a serial sequel to his saga launched 20 years ago with The Spanish inn. They will end with the American-German series Transatlantic d’Anna Winger (Unorthodox), which traces for Netflix the real exfiltration of Jewish artists in Marseille in the early 1940s.

Audrey Fleurot, Hervé Le Tellier and Cyril Dion

In the meantime, the 70,000 participants will be able to discover an exhibition on credits or attend master classes by Brian Cox, Cécile de France, Cédric Klapisch, the co-creator of Westworld and president of the international jury, Lisa Joy, or Philippine Leroy-Beaulieu, the French boss ofEmily in Paris. Audrey Fleurot will also be there for the new season ofHPI, the writer Hervé Le Tellier – whose Goncourt Prize 2020, The Anomalyis going to be adapted into a series -, the journalist Florence Aubenas, the winner of the drag queens television competition Drag Race France Hugo Bardin, alias Paloma, or the actor Jean-Claude Drouot for the 60th anniversary of Thierry the slingshot.

Other international guests will be announced later for this edition where three trends stand out, including “the women“, “drivers of storytelling“, selon Laurence Herszberg. “More than half of the series received are rooted in the 80s and 90s“, she remarked, referring to the Quebecer Disobey: Chantal Daigle’s choice on the difficulty of having an abortion.

Another popular theme, “ecology“, at the heart of a conference led by activist and director Cyril Dion and series like The Fortress or The Swarm. In the first, Norway, in autarky, sorts out Western climate refugees, and in the second, an underwater entity revolts against human polluters.

“Festival Series Mania” in Lille. From March 17 to 24, 2023. Find the complete program on the event website.