German series The Zweiflers (Die Zweiflers) took home the prize for Best Series at the Canneseries Awards last night.
This year, Canneseries took place from 5 to 10 April, in parallel with the final MIPTV event. The Zweiflers – which also won Best Music and the High School Award for Best Series – is a six-part series about a Jewish family in contemporary Germany pondering the inheritance of the family delicatessen. Director and showrunner David Hadda paid tribute to his Jewish grandparents at the premiere of the show, which will premiere in Germany on ARD’s Mediathek streaming service in the spring.
Norwegian series Dumbsday (Dummedag) won for Best Screenplay. The series is set against the backdrop of a virus that causes people’s intelligence to drop to unsurvivable levels worldwide.
Elsewhere, Aina Clotet took home the Best Performance Award for her role as Mariana in Spanish-Swedish comedy drama This Is Not Sweden. The Special Interpretation Award went to the cast of Operation Sabre, which revisits the events following the 2003 assassination of Serbian Prime Minister Zoran Đinđić. Deadline spoke with the creators prior to the fest on how the show reveals a “bigger truth” about society.
DJ Mehdi: Made in France emerged victorious in Best Documentary Series. Meanwhile, Argentinian show Rather Burn and Finnish drama Money Shot won Best Short Form Series and the Student Award for Best Short Form Series respectively.
The 2024 Canneseries jury for television series comprised Danish The Killing star Sofie Gråbøl, composer Amine Bouhafa, French actor Alix Poisson, producer Olivier Abbou, Spanish actor Macarena García and Brazilian actor-producer Alice Braga. French director and actress Ovidie, producer Alex Boden, and French journalist Julien Cernobori made up the jury panel for documentary series, while Henriette Steenstrup, Pénélope Bagieu and Nathan Stewart-Jarrett were on the jury for Best Short Form Series. The television festival also saw the world premieres of Disney+’s Becoming Karl Lagerfeld featuring Daniel Brühl and Michael Douglas-starrer Franklin, which closed the event. Also in the lineup was Prime Video’s Fallout, a drama series based on the popular video game starring Yellowjackets Ella Purnell and Kyle MacLachlan.
