France tv distribution is proud to announce the selection of three drama series from its line-up in the official competition at Series Mania Festival. The 9th edition of the international festival completly dedicated to drama will take place from April 27th to May 5th in Lille.
France tv distribution will produce these three drama series into DVD and VOD, and distribute them abroad.
MOTHER IS WRONG (International distribution launch at 2018 MIPTV - France tv distribution line-up)
©Alain Guizard
The drama is based on the eponymous book by Michel Bussi published in 2015 by Presses de la cité. Should Police Captain Marianne Aubrais believe a child who claims that is mother is not really his mother? If his story is not simply a fantasy, it would be genuinely criminal to ignore it. The boy may never become the man he should be and might have to accept the unthinkable: being raised by a woman who has taken his real mother's place.
Length : 6x52' - Film-making : François Velle - Cast : Anne Charrier, Pascal Elbé, Samuel Theis... - Production : MFP - 2018 - France 2
WAR ON BEASTS (International distribution launch at 2018 MIPTV - France tv distribution line-up)
©Benoît Linder - Europacorp Television
Martel is a dangerous man. Even if he works his eight hour job at the factory without batting an eye, takes care of his mother, helps his friends and takes it on the chin, he's a dangerous man. So when he loses his job and ends up alone with his debts, anything's possible. War on beasts is the story of this man who refuses to go donwhill and a work inspector specialised in lost causes. It's also the story of Bruce, a bodybuilder who takes himself for Tony Montana, Tokarev, a procurer receiving chemotherapy, and Jordan, a biker teenager who would do anything for the beautiful Lydie. Finally, it's the story of a handful of labourers who refuse to die and who want to save their factory. War on beasts is the tale of a world that ends in peripheral France, when the social violence becomes simply violence.
Length : 6x52' - Film-making : Alain Tasma - Cast : Roschdy Zem, Olivia Bonamy, Rod Paradot... - Production : Europacorp Télévision - 2018 - France 3
KEPLER(S)
©Jean-Philippe Baltel / France Télévisions
After a police operation gone wrong, Samuel Kepler, a mentally fragile cop, is sent for a break to the Calais police station where he tries to start anew with his wife Anne and their daughter Marion. Kepler believes the simple administrative tasks he is carrying out will keep his demons at bay. However, one crime is going to change everything. A young girl's body is discovered on the former premises of the Calais 'jungle'. Kepler teams up with a local cop Alice Haddad to solve the case. As she guides him around she worriedly witnesses his decline.
Length : 6x52' - Film-making : Frédéric Schoendoerffer - Cast : Marc Lavoine, Sofia Essaidi... - Production : EVS Production - France 2