Will they be part of the series rewarded by the Canneseries jury, whose fifth season will end this Wednesday, April 6? These three will have, whatever happens, marked the Croisette.
El immortal – Spain, 8×50 minutes
The series returns to the true story of the “Miami”, a gang that controlled cocaine trafficking and Madrid’s nightlife in the 1980s and 1990s. El Inmortal retraces more exactly the history of Jose Antonio at the head of this organization which was feared by all. A man who has become one of the most powerful drug traffickers in Europe, and who has survived an incredible number of assassination attempts.
The trajectory of this ruthless Madrid kingpin is carried with charisma (and caliente charm) by Álex García (seen in Antidisturbios on Canal+).
Games of influence, the fighters – France, 6 x 55 minutes
Jean-Xavier de Lestrade (An ideal culprit, The Staircase, Laëtitia) is back with a new season of Games of Influence, Les Combatantes, this time centered on the relationship between lobbies and the agri-food industry. In this tale of chilling topicality and realism, a Minister of Agriculture caught in the trap of exercising power, a lobbyist ready to do anything to stifle a health scandal, mothers of families destitute in the face of drama that touches them, and a pugnacious journalist ready to do anything to lift the veil on the truth.
Rich in long-term documentary work and carried by a perfect Alix Poisson, the series raises awareness of the dangerous connections between power and lobbies.
1985 – Belgium, 8 x 50 minutes
In 1980, a young woman, her brother and her best friend embark on adult life. Full of good intentions, they embark on a promising future. Vicky, as a law student at the Free University of Brussels, Marc and Franky, as recruits in the Belgian gendarmerie. But over the next few years, the three of them will lose their innocence and their illusions. Just like the rest of the country, a violent and bloody news is imposed on them, reducing to crumbs part of their innocence and their dreams: the Brabant Killings…
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1hMLs1ndLMM
Written by Willem Wallyn, screenwriter of All of Us, and carried by the teams of The Twelve and Red Light, two series previously awarded at the Canneseries, 1985 returns with finesse to the case of the Brabant killings, a series of crimes and more specifically of bloody robberies that took place in Belgium, among others, and which marked an entire generation.