The 11th Serielizados Fest unveils its online programming on Filmin

Filmin subscribers will once again enjoy exclusive access to the best series of the year, at no extra cost, which the programmers of Serielizados Fest have selected from a wide variety of countries, all kinds of genres and proven track record in other prestigious festivals.

In this way, it will be possible to see all the series that are part of the International Official Competition Section, the titles selected within the Panorama section (which offers a great sample of the current series worldwide), the short format series that are included in the Short Form category and the documentary film Getting LOST, about the 20 years of the premiere of the series Lost.

International Official Competition Section

Five series are competing in the International Official Selection of the 11th Serielizados Fest: After the Party (New Zealand, Australia), Kafka (Austria), Pressure Point (Sweden), Secrets (Denmark) and Truelove (United Kingdom).

After the Party is one of the revelation series of the season, about a woman who loses everything when she accuses her husband of a sex crime. Starring Robyn Malcolm and Peter Mullan (Top of the Lake), the series reflects on the weight of truth with echoes of other titles such as Olive Kitteridge or Mare of Easttown. For its part, Kafka is an atypical biopic with touches of humor about the life of Franz Kafka, just as it commemorates the centenary of the writer’s death. The series has a luxurious cast with names such as Christian Friedel (star of The Zone of Interest) or Lars Eidinger, recently seen in the mini-series Irma Vep.

Completing the selection are Pressure Point, a fascinating and spherical story based on real events that is told through a theatrical performance in a maximum security prison; Secrets, a powerful drama about family relationships, abuse and co-dependence starring Iben Hjejle and Pilou Asbæk, who played Euron Greyjoy in Game of Thrones; and Truelove, a touching British series about friendship in the third age, starring Lindsay Duncan (The Leftovers, Sherlock) and Clarke Peters (The Wire, Treme) and created by Iain Weatherby and Charlie Covell, creators of titles such as The End of the F***ing World or Kaos.

After the Party

Getting LOST: documentary film on the 20th anniversary of the premiere of Perdidos

Another highlight of the online edition of the 11th Serielizados Fest will be the international premiere of the documentary film Getting LOST, which celebrates the 20th anniversary of the series that changed everything: Lost. 

The film recalls the influence that the series had on the television panorama and offers exclusive interviews with its creators (J.J. Abrams, Damon Lindelof and Carlton Cuse), the composer Michael Giacchino and most of its actors: Evangeline Lilly (Kate), Daniel Dae Kim (Jin-Soo), Henry Ian Cusick (Desmond), Emilie De Ravin (Claire), Nestor Carbonell (Richard), Josh Holloway (Sawyer), Terry O’Quinn (John Locke), Maggie Grace (Shannon), Jorge García (Hurley), Michael Emerson (Ben Linus), Malcolm David Kelley (Walt), Elizabeth Mitchell (Juliet) or Sonya Walger (Penny).

Getting LOST

Panorama: the best collection of unpublished international series

The Panorama section, full of interesting discoveries, with recently produced and out-of-competition series, will be made up of a total of 33 titles. Thus, the highlights are series such as Big Mood, the new comedy revelation in the UK, a story of female friendship marked by mental health and starring Nicola Coughlan (Derry Girls, Bridgertons) and Lydia West (Years and Years); the French The World Does Not Exist, with Niels Schneider (Of Money and Blood, Coup de Chance, Heartbeats), about a journalist who returns to his hometown to investigate a murder in which his childhood sweetheart seems to be involved; Penelope, produced by the Duplass brothers, about a teenage girl who leaves her family behind and runs away to live in the woods; or The Jetty, a British thriller with a feminist outlook, starring Jenna Coleman (Doctor Who, Sandman) and directed by filmmaker Marialy Rivas (Young and Wild, Princesita).

Other outstanding thrillers that are part of Panorama are the African series Mami Wata (Gabon), about a journalist investigating the disappearance of her little brother; the Xilene La cacería. En el fin del mundo, also focused on the mysterious disappearance of a young man; or the Belgian Let’s Be Frank, a drama with touches of comedy and echoes of Breaking Bad. On the other hand, Perni‘s producers bring us the series Stayer (Norway), with actor Aksel Hennie (Headhunters, Sisu) playing a washed-up rock star who is torn between recovering his career or his family. The section also has room for true stories such as Marconi (Italy), a RAI biopic about the inventor of radio, starring Stefano Accorsi (1992, The Young Pope), or The Siege (Finland), a thrilling proposal about a media siege in Finland in the 90s, with Fallen Leaves star Jussi Vatanen.

As far as comedies are concerned, highlights include such titles as the Norwegian Golden Years, about a family of 80s hippies who leave their commune and run headlong into capitalism; Piggy, about a narcotics investigator who allies herself with an oil-sweetened bread criminal; and What Happened to Solveig?, a sketchy parody of true crime that looks like a cross between Little Britain and La hora Chanante. Another of the selected comedies is the Swedish Painkiller, about a mother and daughter who continually fail to improve their lives.

Piggy

The South Korean Pyramid Game is also one of the outstanding series of Panorama, a fiction about bullying, set in a high school for girls, which reminds Squid Game for its implicit and explicit violence. Also about bullying is the surprising The System, a drama from Kazakhstan about a boy who has to choose between submitting to the system of hierarchies in his new boarding school or revealing himself against the brutal rules imposed.

The swapping of partners is also one of the themes of next year’s selection in two series such as the Portuguese Error 404, an explosive mix between Fleabag, Tinder and films like Freaky Friday, starring a girl who discovers an application that allows her to live the lives of other people; and the Icelandic Visitors, about a boy and a girl who, after hooking up, discover that they have swapped places.

The selection also includes such a brutal title as Processes (Poland), a dystopia that plays with absurd comedy, grotesque satire and black humor to expose the repression in Belarus; The Markovic Method: Hojer, the Czech answer to Mindhunter; the francophones Enjoy! three stories created with a rider at the center of the story; LT-21, a dystopia with echoes of The Collapse; or the period fiction The Huguenots, starring Nicolas Duvauchelle, known for series such as Black Butterflies and a regular in Claire Denis’ films. From Japan, meanwhile, come the series What Did You Do After That?, about the most hidden secrets of Japanese society; and Traces of Grace, about the road trip of a young man who tries to find out who his wife really was.

Completing the selection are the sex drama 30 Days of Lust (Germany), Ewusu (Cameroon), Rémoras (Argentina), Húsó (Iceland), Chameleon (Belgium), Home in You (Sweden), House of Gods (Austria) and Behind Every Man (Denmark), a culinary drama reminiscent of The Bear.

What Did You Do After That?

Short Form: short series that have stood out around the world

Serielizados Fest will also dedicate a space on Filmin to four short form series (less than 20 minutes per chapter) that have stood out in festivals around the world. Thus, you can see exclusively #Annaismissing (República Txeca), an eco-thriller about the disappearance of an influencer and the dark side of social networks; Ceux qui rougissent (France, Switzerland), about the peculiar teaching methods of a theater teacher; or the Quebec series La dernière communion, starring three ex-priests; and La terre appelle Mathilde, about a teenage girl who has to learn to live with functional diversity after an accident.

Ceux qui rougissent

Spot of the 11th edition of Serielizados Fest

We present the official spot of the 11th Serielizados Fest, which summarizes the history of the eleven years of the festival through animation. The spot has been made by Mar Guixé (illustration), Fede Serramalera (animation), Marc Cerrudo (script) and Júlia Bertran (voice).

La edición presencial de Serielizados Fest tendrá lugar en Barcelona, del 14 al 23 de octubre, en el CCCB, la sala Phenomena, CASA SEAT y el Espai Texas. La edición online tendrá lugar en Filmin entre el 15 y el 27 del mismo mes.