HOONS

Production company: Tai Huri Films
Country: New Zealand

Te Kauri and Reuben, two young men predisposed to casual hookups, find themselves drawn to each other to explore what a relationship could look like, unexpectedly finding pleasure and power in vulnerability – and through their shared love of cars.

Their relationship is complicated by their different backgrounds, unresolved family issues and the influence of a neoconservative Christian men’s group in their small town. As the group moves towards a violent political statement and their romance develops, the two men must confront questions of loyalty, identity and their future together in regional New Zealand.

IBSEN SUMMER / SUMMER GUESTS

Production company: Miso Film Norway
Country: Norway

The White Lotus meets Gossip Girl, inspired by the iconic characters of Henrik Ibsen.

Set in an exclusive Norwegian summer paradise, the series follows three young women caught in a dangerous game of love, power, privilege and secrets.

One summer, Nora (19), Ellida (20) and Hedda (19) return to the island of Tjøme, where they grew up. As old relationships resurface, Nora hides a secret that could destroy her family’s reputation, Hedda sets a dangerous game in motion and Ellida finds herself swept into a romance that becomes impossible to keep hidden. Over one intense summer week, friendships and loyalties are tested, with devastating consequences.

SOMEBODY ELSE’S WAR

Production company: BuchaFilm / Submarine
Country: Ukraine / Netherlands

When Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 is shot down over eastern Ukraine, three former military academy friends find themselves on opposite sides of a covert intelligence war.

This eight-episode action drama and spy thriller, based on documented events from 2014 to 2019, follows Ukrainian intelligence officers, Russian operatives and international investigators as they fight over the truth surrounding the tragedy.

At the centre of the operation are three former friends: Viktor, working undercover as a police commander in separatist-controlled Donetsk; Gunna, the first woman to command a special operations unit in Ukrainian intelligence; and Pasha, a frontline smuggler simply trying to survive. As their paths collide over five years, everyone is fighting to expose, exploit or bury the truth.

WANG XIANG CHAN

Production company: Ina Taiwan Film Production
Country: Taiwan

If we could attain everything we desire – love, wealth and power – would we finally find true fulfilment, or would our hearts still long for something more?

Wang Xiang Chan is a historical fantasy based on the extraordinary life of Taiwan’s legendary courtesan and poet, spanning half a century of upheaval in East Asia.

In 1902, under Japanese rule, celebrated courtesan Wang Xiangchan falls to her death – only to awaken moments earlier. Trapped in a cycle of death and rebirth, she discovers that each door opens another chapter of her life, where different choices lead to different loves, marriages, identities and destinies.

Against the rise and fall of empires, war and shifting regimes across Taiwan, China and Japan, Xiangchan journeys from colonial Taiwan to Beijing and Manchukuo, ultimately discovering that escaping the cycle requires freedom from the need to rewrite her past.

HONOURABLE MENTION
DEPARTMENT 01: WAR & PEACE

Production company: Story House Pictures
Country: Germany

German agent Andreas Bolken (39) is the head of a newly created covert intelligence task force made up of European agents. The mission of the ambitious leader of Department 01 is to prevent any threat to Europe by any means necessary.

Soon, Bolken and top French agent Nicola Rosaire (34) uncover evidence of one of multiple looming terrorist attacks, orchestrated by a mysterious adversary who calls himself ‘The Instrument’.

As the international team races to uncover his identity and prevent the attacks, the mission becomes personal, forcing the agents to choose between duty, loyalty and love.

GET ABOARD

Production company: Independent creator – Ioannis Eleftheriadis
Country: Greece

Ten contestants. One sailing yacht. One final destination. At every stop, a new Passage decides who continues the journey. Finish last and the yacht sails on without you. To reach the end, there is one simple command: Get Aboard – or be left behind.

Get Aboard is a location-based adventure reality format in which 10 contestants live and travel together aboard a sailing yacht on a spectacular journey from destination to destination.

At each stop, they face a new adventure challenge shaped by the surrounding terrain, which can include running, swimming, kayaking, paddleboarding, mountain biking and navigation. The last contestant to cross the finish line is eliminated, while the others get aboard and sail to the next destination. One contestant eventually reaches the final destination and wins.

OUT OF YOUR LEAGUE

Production company: Free Kings
Country: Belgium

Everyone looks like a million dollars. But who actually has it?

Twenty singles from radically different financial backgrounds enter a spectacular luxury villa where everyone lives like a millionaire, but nobody knows who’s actually rich. They date and fall in love without knowing what their partner is worth.

Once five couples have committed, they leave the villa and draw five radically different lifestyle budgets, from millionaire luxury to barely making ends meet, to discover what it’s really like to build a life together.

Armed with fictional fortunes, the couples go house hunting, shop for furniture, plan romantic getaways and navigate everyday expenses. Then their real financial situations are revealed, forcing them to confront whether money makes love easier or harder – and whether they can afford the future they imagined together.

SWAP

Production company: Philo Productions
Country: Switzerland

The first collaborative quiz: before you answer, your opponents remove half the answers, and if you find the right one among those left, both teams win. But if you think they took the right answer away, pull the Swap lever: now they have to answer.

Swap is a daily quiz in which two duos face each other. For every question, one duo prepares and the other answers. The preparing duo sees the question and its four possible answers, then removes two. The answering duo sees only the two remaining options and must pick one.

A correct answer pays both teams, while a wrong one pays nobody. But teams can pull the Swap lever if they suspect a trap, sending the question back to the duo that prepared it, who must now answer between their own two choices. Over 10 questions, trust is built, tested and broken.

WIN THE WOODS

Production company: Hello Deer
Country: UK

For a generation struggling to get a foothold on the property ladder, the numbers are brutal. The average first-time buyer now needs a £61,090 deposit just to get onto it. Around £92,000 could buy 10 acres of Welsh woodland.

Win the Woods turns that gap between conventional home ownership and the dream of space, land and a different way of living into a reality competition.

Ten ordinary people move into 10 acres of empty Welsh woodland for one summer. Living on site from day one, they must work together to turn it into a beautiful, liveable home, making the big decisions and tackling the practical challenges of shelter, power, water, living spaces and the land itself.

Together, they are building the prize. Individually, they are fighting to win it. As the house grows, the cast shrinks, until one contestant wins the woodland, the home and the chance to live a completely different life.

HONOURABLE MENTION
ORKESTRA – BATTLE OF THE MUSICIANS

Production company: Independent producer and format creator – Çağrı Sarıer
Country: Turkey

Sixty musicians duel. Two star Captains build rival bands from the winners. Only one band survives – and the singer is only the guest.

Orkestra is a primetime music competition for instrumentalists. Sixty master musicians, 12 from each of five instrument families, compete under two rival star Captains until one Champion Orchestra is left.

Famous singers appear only as Guest Soloists: they accompany and never compete.

The musicians first face 30 one-on-one duels before the remaining contestants are drafted into two rival bands. The Captains then battle to build the strongest line-ups, with musicians ultimately deciding which team they join. Following a series of performances and eliminations, the two bands compete in a final concert, with public voting and a guest jury deciding the champion.