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South International Series Festival: 10 Titles to Watch
From ‘Cable Girls’ producer’s new serie, to a potential French breakout, Steven Knight’s ‘Twin Town’ and rave-reviewed ‘Joan’ and ‘Querer.’
One of Atresmedia’s biggest bets at Mipcom, a biopic series about the rise to Olympic Gold Medals at Sydney and Athens of Spanish gymnast Gervasio Deferr and, in a second timeline, his descent into drugs and alcohol, incapable of accepting failure in competition and lost when retired. These look fully on display in new period piece “La Favorita 1922,” Mediaset España’s first collaboration with Bambu and showrun by Josep Cister, who scored with hit RTVE soap “The Vow.” Here, Seville’s Marquise Elena de Valmonte flees to Madrid and sets up a restaurant with four young women. Bowing at the September La Rochelle Festival, the sci-fi eco-thriller has been praised for its high-concept ambition, direction of David Hourrègue, who helmed the Series Mania standout “Germinal” and for the central performance of Fleur Geffrier as a marine scientist who returns to her home town to investigate a shipwreck.
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