opening : THE TESTAMENTS

WORLD PREMIERE

usa
DISNEY+

An evolution of “The Handmaid’s Tale,” “The Testaments” is based on Margaret Atwood’s novel of the same name and is a dramatic coming-of-age story set in Gilead. The series follows young teens Agnes, dutiful and pious, and Daisy, a new arrival and convert from beyond Gilead’s borders. As they navigate the gilded halls of Aunt Lydia’s elite preparatory school for future wives, a place where obedience is instilled brutally and always with divine justification,their bond becomes the catalyst that will upend their past, their present, and their future.

closing : THE GLASS HOUSE

WORLD PREMIERE

CANADA
PRIME VIDEO

In the mid-1990s, André Joyal, the owner of a glass shop, tries to save his declining business while facing major family challenges in a world undergoing rapid change. André will have to learn to let go, to accept the changes, and to redefine what is truly important in his life

anatomÍa de un instante

FRENCH PREMIERE

SPAIN
movistar plus+ / arte

Starting with the coup d’état of 23 February 1981 in Spain, the series dissects one of the crucial moments in Spain’s recent history: the transition to democracy. When Civil Guard Lieutenant Colonel Antonio Tejero entered Congress with his weapon drawn, only three men remained seated: Adolfo Suárez, Santiago Carrillo and Gutiérrez Mellado. Through these three men who led the transition to democracy and the three main instigators of the coup, the series retraces the series of events and tensions that almost led Spain back to the old military regime.

the audacity

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

USA
amc / amc+

Set inside the bubble of Silicon Valley, The Audacity takes on the warped dreams, outsized egos, and ethical lapses of the self-styled inventors of the future. In a world of jaded billionaires, psychiatrist-gurus, bio-hacked tech bros, AI labs and disillusioned teens being optimized in elite private schools, an audacious data-mining CEO (Billy Magnussen) strives to turn insight and influence into profit and power. A darkly comedic drama that confronts reality, privacy, and the delusions fueling our ever-changing world.

dear killer nannies

WORLD PREMIERE

latin america
disney+ / hulu

Juampi is a lonely child who lives surrounded by luxury and considers his father the benefactor of the humblest of Medellín, with a fortune that obliges them to live with bodyguards who also work as his playmates. However, this ideal world starts to crumble when he learns that his beloved “nannies” are hitmen hired to give their lives to his family and that his father, Pablo Escobar, is the most feared and wanted drug trafficker on the planet. This is the story of a child who loses his innocence by inheriting a war that does not belong to him while carrying the stigma of a last name that will transform his life into a race against death. Juan Pablo Escobar narrates, in first person, how it was to grow up inside the Medellín Cartel, the most powerful criminal empire of his time.

dustfall

WORLD PREMIERE

australiA
abc tv / bbc / zdf

Dustfall is a propulsive Tropic Noir following detective Tig Pollard as she investigates a harrowing case after 18 year old Edie is found naked in a cane field with no memory of how she got there. What begins as a sexual assault case spirals darker, and Tig’s search for the truth turns personal as someone from her past resurfaces, forcing her to confront long-buried secrets from her own adolescence.

love is enough (tentative)

WORLD PREMIERE

polAND
hbo max

Filip is a young, irresponsible and brazen gay man, convinced the world is his oyster. When a family tragedy strikes, his self-focus turns into a lingering feeling of guilt. As he takes care of his infant niece, Filip wants to remain free, yet he rebels at the thought of giving his niece over to strangers due to his own childhood trauma. To care for her, he must face his weaknesses, failures, and societal prejudice.

MAJOR players

WORLD PREMIERE

UK
CHANNEL 4

Major Players is an original drama co-written by Molly Manning Walker (How To Have Sex) and Yasmin Joseph (A Thousand Blows) about two girls on the brink of adulthood and their mission to start a women’s football team. Inspired by Molly’s own experiences at high school where the crowd control was more urgent than the education, the series is a love letter to football and a funny and wild exploration of young people in London today, tackling topics from friendship to gender politics.

my brother

FRENCH PREMIERE

sWEDEN
SVT / DR / NRK / YLE / RÚV

Jana Kippo returns to her native village of Västerbotten to rescue her alcoholic twin brother. In a world of old memories and hidden secrets, she crosses paths with a man rumoured to have killed his wife, Maria — the same woman who was also her brother’s great love. But who was Maria and how did she die? The more involved Jana becomes, the more she is forced to confront her repressed childhood memories.

paolo

WORLD PREMIERE

FRANCE
HBO MAX

Paolo’s ordinary working-class existence is upended when he encounters the ambitious, and magnetic local politician Téophane, an old school mate. What begins as admiration and a desire to help Téophane’s campaign, soon spirals into an all-consuming obsession, leading to a deadly ride in this intense psychological Ripley-style thriller.

waiting for the out

FRENCH PREMIERE

UK
BBC

Dan, a philosopher begins teaching a class of men in prison. Each week, he leads discussions about topics that have troubled philosophers for thousands of years, and that gain a new meaning when seen through the prisoners’ eyes. Through his work, Dan begins to dig deeper into his own past – growing up with a violent father who ended up in prison, as did his brother Lee and uncle Frank. Dan took a different path, but his time working in a prison begins to make him worry, obsessively, that he belongs behind bars just like his father. As Dan’s personal crisis deepens, his actions begin to threaten both his own future, and his family’s.

BABIES

WORLD PREMIERE

UK
BBC one

A moving, heartbreaking but ultimately heartwarming portrayal of a couple trying to have a baby.
Lisa and Stephen are dealing with the painful struggle of pregnancy loss while life continues around them. However, despite facing dark times of grief and loneliness, they are finding their way through it with a burning sense of hope, humour, and love, realising the strength of their relationship, which will ultimately bring them closer than ever.

BREENDONK

WORLD PREMIERE

BELGIUM
VRT / STREAMZ / RTBF

Breendonk is an intriguing prison drama set in war-torn Antwerp in 1942. A story about idealistic choices that turned out to be wrong, about unexpected alliances and the quest for how to keep loving in a loveless world.

BURDEN OF JUSTICE

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

SWEDEN
SVT

In a Swedish justice system on the brink, elite defense firm Matsson & Markovic struggles as new laws erode legal norms. Lawyer Sasha is caught in a personal rape case, while idealist Kalle faces a gang trial that breaks his ethics. As young associates cross dangerous lines, Burden of Justice explores ambition, loyalty, and the price of integrity.

ETHERNAL

FRENCH PREMIERE

BELGIUM
RTBF / PROXIMUS

Thanks to a revolutionary scientific breakthrough, the dead can now communicate with the living via a terminal: the ETHERNA. Police officer David Novack, haunted by the death of his wife, works in a new squad tasked with finding the transitional objects needed to establish communication and taking post-mortem statements from victims. A routine investigation will shatter his beliefs, but also potentially lead him to closure.

PRISONER 951

FRENCH PREMIERE

UK
BBC one

In 2016, Nazanin Zaghari-Ratcliffe is torn from her 22-month-old daughter and falsely imprisoned in Iran. Thousands of miles away, in London, her husband Richard refuses to stay silent and wages a campaign to free her. Thrust into the global spotlight by extraordinary circumstances, this true story is a testament to the courage, resilience and love of an ordinary family.

QUEEN OF MARS

FRENCH PREMIERE

JAPAN
NHK

Is the Mars colony hope for mankind? The year is 2125. Four decades into colonization under authoritarian rule by the Inter-planetary Space Development Agency, discontent is brewing on the Red Planet. Lili E1102 is blind. Born and raised on Mars, she endured grueling tr

SMALL PROPHETS

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

UK
BBC

A man set adrift since the mysterious disappearance of his girlfriend Clea seven years ago.
When his father Brian recalls an ancient alchemic recipe, Michael decides to take a chance on uncovering the truth by creating magical spirits that can predict the future. With help from his friend Kacey he grows the creatures in his shed, hoping that they’ll answer his burning question: will he ever see Clea again? But as the spirits come to life, they trigger a strange series of events. 

THE BEST IMMIGRANT

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

BELGIUM
STREAMZ

Independent Flanders, near future. A far-right government decrees the expulsion of all foreign-born residents. For Muna and Jamal, arrest means forced separation. Desperate, the couple risks everything by joining ‘The Best Immigrant’, a ruthless reality show where contestants must compete against each other for the ultimate prize: a residence permit.

THE FLAWS

WORLD PREMIERE

GERMANY
ZDF

The Flaws are the typical employees of a German government office – quiet, obedient and spectacularly bad at their jobs. Protected by a compassionate boss they face dismissal when consultants audit the department—until a lucky mix-up reroutes them to an advanced training program. Stranded on an autonomous bus, they find themselves on an absurd journey straight into professional disasters, including a mini revolution on forklifts, and an ill-advised attempt to enter heaven.

THESE SACRED VOWS

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

IRELAND
RTÉ ONE

At an Irish wedding in Tenerife the guests juggle personal crises with good times under the sun. From the priest who has a looming disaster staring him in the face, to secret romances, undisclosed illnesses and an unwanted advance, each of them has something to hide and a vow to keep. A celebration where appearances are as fragile as the newlyweds’ vows.

VARIOLA VERA

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

POLAND
TVP

Poland, 1963. Lucja Winter, an experienced intelligence officer, returns from a top-secret mission in India as a smallpox outbreak erupts in one of Poland’s cities – Wroclaw. It is soon sealed off from the outside world in an effort to contain a virus believed to have disappeared from Europe.
As doctors led by the young and ambitious Weronika Przybysz fight the epidemic, journalist Igor Bielik searches for the truth behind the outbreak.

WELCOME TO KINGSTON-FALLS

WORLD PREMIERE

CANADA
ICI RADIO CANADA

In Kingston-Falls, Inspector Gabriel Serpent sees his vacation interrupted by the discovery of a dead body in a bizarre position: buttocks protruding from the ground with a bicycle wheel driven into them. With his municipal police station facing potential closure, Gabriel wants to lead the investigation to prove its necessity. The arrival of Cynthia Quinn, nicknamed “the Tracker,” an investigator whose methods are questionable and who has alcohol problems, disrupts the team’s harmony.

CAMARADES

WORLD PREMIERE

france
ARTE

May 1968. France is in the throes of a student-led uprising that has the government on edge. To neutralize this subversive tide, the Gaullist administration strikes back with a move as cynical as it is brilliant: founding an experimental university safely tucked away from the cobblestones of Paris. Blending larger-than-life icons of “French Theory” with a cast of fictional dreamers, Camarades captures the heyday of an era where ideas were weapons and utopia felt within reach. This lively comedy invites us to relive the wild, chaotic experiment of Vincennes University, a place where the student experience was anything but academic.

ELDORADO

WORLD PREMIERE

france / BELGIUM
ARTE / RTBF

In 1976, Count Arnaud de Toledo and Florindo Bonamici invented a revolutionary technology for X-raying the Earth’s layers, but lacked the necessary funds. Elf saw this as a way to save French competitiveness. An ambitious executive, the count’s daughter, and a brilliant engineer embarked on the adventure, driven by hope and ambition.

UNCHAINED

WORLD PREMIERE

france
FRANCE TV

Bourbon Island, 1806. A devastating cyclone leaves Charles Bellevue’s plantation in ruins. Bankrupt, he is forced to sell his lands, leaving his slaves in terror of being separated. Among them, Isaac refuses to accept his fate. He has just discovered that Charles Bellevue is not only his master: he is his father.

SUMMER of 36

WORLD PREMIERE

FRANCE / belgiUM
TF1 / netflix / RTL / RTS

Nice, summer of 1936. The elite are stunned as the first working-class vacationers arrive on the French Riviera, thanks to newly granted paid leave. In this clash of worlds, four women from different backgrounds find themselves entangled in a murder at the chic Hotel Riviera. A crime that will shatter their families, their romances, and their lives forever.

ALL SHAPES OF US

WORLD PREMIERE

france
TF1

All Shapes of Us follows six teenagers starting at ‘The Hive’, a unique boarding school specializing in eating disorders. Here, students balance education with recovery. Despite their diverse backgrounds, they share one painful bond: a broken relationship with their bodies and weight. These bruised souls will find one another and become inseparable.

PRIVILÈGES

WORLD PREMIERE

france
HBO max

Young inmate Adèle Charki desperately accepts a bellhop position at the palatial Citadel as part of a day-release program run by the hotel’s all-powerful director Édouard Galzain, But shortly after arriving for her first shift, Adèle is thrust into a not-so-secret power struggle where ambitious staff, influential guests, and outside networks all fight for control – turning the hotel into a breeding ground of manipulation and betrayal. As her relationship with Édouard quickly morphs into something more sinister, Adèle’s grit and ambition are crucial for her survival as she fights for a chance to redeem her future.

ATLANTIS PASILA

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

FINLAND
YLE

Welcome to the Atlantis, a bar tucked away in Helsinki’s concrete-gray neighborhood, Itä-Pasila. Here, staff and regulars alike drift through life, grappling with their emotions. Among them is Kauri, a nomad and eternal optimist who has mastered the art of running away. This time, he thinks he has found the ultimate escape: a van, the open road, and a one-way ticket to Portugal. But on the night of his departure, the dream stalls: his van breaks down. To pay for the repairs, Kauri has no choice but to head back to the one place he tried to leave behind: the Atlantis Bar.

AYER’S CLIFF

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

CANADA
TOU.TV

When tragedy strikes in Ayer’s Cliff, Henri must team up with his uncle, Martin Stevens, a one-hit wonder disco singer, to prevent the worst from happening.

THE LAST HOUR

WORLD PREMIERE

france
ARTE.TV

Shortly after arriving to discover her ancestral homeland, Billie is forced to flee due to a sudden uprising. Trapped with her father in her grandfather’s house as he fades into Alzheimer’s, she has only one hour before the embassy arrives. In this race against time, she must unearth the family secrets and the decades of exile that haunt her father.

HAPPINESS

WORLD PREMIERE

FRANCE
ARTE.TV

Having arrived in France six months ago, Shadi wavers between adaptation and loneliness. As the Iranian New Year approaches, her meeting with Arezou—a radiant, spontaneous Franco-Iranian woman—turns her daily life upside down. Their friendship becomes a space for a search for freedom and a fragile sense of stability, shaped by exile, friendship, love, and political awakening.

HIRAYASUMI

FRENCH PREMIERE

JAPAN
NHK

Ikuta Hiroto, 29. He has no full-time job, no partner, no plan for the future—and he couldn’t be happier. He’s just fine, unfettered and carefree. One day, Hiroto ends up inheriting a “hiraya” (one-story house) from an elderly neighbor whom he befriended purely by his personable nature. His 18-year-old cousin Kobayashi Natsumi, who arrives in Tokyo from the northern countryside, moves in with him. So unfolds a quiet, ordinary hiraya life that seems to attract troubled souls who need a break (“yasumi”).

HOMEBODIES

WORLD PREMIERE

AUSTRALIA
SBS

The series follows Darcy, who when forced home to look after his estranged mother, discovers that she has an unexpected housemate: the teenage ghost of his pre-transition self.

LES SATURNIDES

WORLD PREMIERE

canada
TV5 QUÉBEC / UNIS TV

The sudden appearance of northern lights over Montreal plunges the city into a strange mass insomnia. Camille, an protective young mother, and Philippe, her boyfriend, find themselves at the heart of this unsettling world where sleep deprivation begins to wear down minds. Trapped in a city under a state of emergency, they must fight to distinguish reality from illusion as growing hallucinations and creeping paranoia turn their lives into a waking nightmare.

UNFILTereD

INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE

SPAIN
3Cat

Unfiltered follows three teenagers as they sext, swipe, and post, facing the messy truth of who they really are versus the selves they show online. In the presented segment, fifteen-year-old Charlie, a trans boy at the start of his transition, struggles with gender dysphoria. To navigate the dating world, he turns to virtual tools to alter his physical appearance online, only to face a shattering experience when his digital mask collides with the truth.

WATCH PARTY

Let’s meet at the Nouveau Siècle for a Watch Party moderated by @geeknightworld, famous content creator in film and series. Following the screening of Peaky Blinders: The Immortal Man, a giant quiz and other surprises to enjoy…

PEAKY BLINDERS : THE IMMORTAL MAN

UK
NETFLIX

Birmingham, 1940. Amidst the chaos of WWII, Tommy Shelby is driven back from a self-imposed exile to face his most destructive reckoning yet. With the future of the family and the country at stake, Tommy must face his own demons, and choose whether to confront his legacy, or burn it to the ground. By order of the Peaky Blinders…

ASPHODELE

WORLD PREMIERE

FRANCE

The mini-series created by the young participants of the Tremplin training program at Series Mania Institute! 

Auguste works at the city’s Lost and Found Office, returning to people the things they have misplaced.
Madeleine is a florist, known for her love of the language of flowers and her original creations. They love each other, but little by little, their passions begin to pull them apart. To remind him of their story, Madeleine starts sending Auguste the objects that have marked their life together. Through these unexpected parcels, Auguste slowly comes to realize what he is about to lose.

MORSHIKEN

FRANCE
SCREENING IN FRENCH DUBBING

Meet Morshiken, a hero determined to turn a dingy dungeon into the stuff of legend, in the first episode of this series that is 100% devoted to his exploits… or almost.

WAKFU

FRANCE
SCREENING IN FRENCH DUBBING

Enjoy the first 10 minutes of the final season of Wakfu! And where there’s an epic saga, there’s always a legendary villain!

WELSH & SHEDAR

FRANCE / JapAN
Projection en vostfr

Lastly, discover the first episode of Welsh & Shedar, our brand-new Franco-Japanese series where adventure meets gastronomy!

BOLIDE

“Summer 2040, 104° in the shade. Cars who run on gasoline are now banned, electricity prices are skyrocketing : the electric cabs that Saadia operates with her mother will soon no longer be profitable. To save the situation, she puts all the family savings into a business that she believes is foolproof… but she loses everything! Her plan? Pocket the grant from the Town Hall intended to promote an ecological initiative in the neighborhood.”

The unpublished script of the series, created by Juliette Gilot and Clémence Attar, will be read by the actors Talents Adami Cinéma 2025, Ada Harb, Augustin DeWinter, Katayoon Latif and Igor Kovalsy, all directed by the actress, director and director Laetitia Dosch. The series is produced by Maxine Films and will be broadcast on Arte.

The reading will take place for the first time in the Théâtre du Nord and will be followed by an exchange.

BISTROSCOPIE

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REMISE DU PRIX VIDOCQ

This year, the presentation of the Vidocq Award adopts a new format:

For seven editions, internal security professionals have been awarding the Vidocq Prize for the best French police series of the year. The latter salutes the quality and credibility, without taboos or wooden language, of the winning series.

The ceremony will be held in public at the UGC Ciné-Cité de Lille, on Monday 23 March at 11:30 am. It will be followed by an exchange between members of the winning artistic team and jury representatives, around a selection of excerpts.