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Event Dates: Series Mania runs March 21-28, 2025 in Lille, France. The Co-Pro Pitching Sessions take place on March 25.
Total Selected Projects: 16 (with one project, Ruth’s Ghosts, showcased but not competing).
Jury Members:
M-K Kennedy (STUDIOCANAL, UK) – Jury President
André Béraud (ICI Radio-Canada Télé, Canada)
Henriette Marienlund (DR Drama, Denmark)
José Pastor (RTVE, Spain)
Frank Seyberth (ZDF, Germany)
Selected Projects (Alphabetical Order & Main Details):
ANTIPAROS (Greece) – Comedy/Crime – A detective’s holiday turns into a murder mystery.
CECILIE MARS (Denmark) – Thriller – A police officer faces a moral dilemma.
CONSULTANTS (Germany) – Political Thriller – A young campaigner discovers a conspiracy.
HEIST (Belgium/France) – Action Thriller – Set during the Lebanese civil war.
INTIMACY (UK/Israel) – Thriller – An intimacy coordinator investigates an actress’s death.
INVISIBLE (Ireland) – Mystery Drama – An unlikely duo solves a crime.
MASQUERADE (Iceland) – Crime Thriller – A journalist uncovers dark secrets in a small village.
NEST (Belgium/UK/Taiwan) – Crime Comedy – A conwoman and her brother are drawn into the gambling underworld.
NUCLEAR SUNSET CRUISE (Germany) – Dramedy – An East German cruise ship enters the Cuban Missile Crisis.
PHENOMENA – THE SERIES (Italy) – Horror/Teen Drama – A girl with psychic insect powers battles a killer.
THE CHAPLAIN (Australia) – Drama – An unconventional airport chaplain fights for his job.
THE INSTITUTE (Germany/Denmark) – Thriller – A PhD student’s death reveals academic corruption.
THE LOTTERY TICKET (Spain) – Dramedy – A birthday, terminal illness, and a winning lottery ticket cause chaos.
TOKYO CRUSH (France/Japan) – Comedy/Romance – A Parisian chef tries to save a struggling Tokyo restaurant.
WOOL (Serbia/Iceland) – Drama – A 1960s Yugoslavian woman revolutionizes her village through knitting.
Special Presentation (Not Competing):
RUTH’S GHOSTS (US/Germany) – Legal Thriller/Supernatural – A lawyer haunted by ghosts fights for abortion rights in 2030’s United States.
Held in Lille since 2018, Series Mania is Europe’s largest TV series festival, attracting 98,000 spectators and 4,200 industry professionals. It also features Series Mania Institute, a training initiative supporting European TV content development.
