Theme Festival - Non-English Language Drama 2024 | Screenings

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Machine Mediawan Rights

A mysterious kung fu heroine and a former drug addict converted to Marxism join forces to lead a workers’ revolt in a French factory. Led by Margot Bancilhon (Best Actress at Series Mania 2023 for Haven of Grace) and JoeyStarr, an action series created by Thomas Bidegain and Fred Grivois. When Karl Marx meets Kung Fu! MORE

Sueños de Libertad (Dreams of Freedom) ATRESMEDIA SALES

“Sueños de Libertad”, Atresmedia’s new telenovela, is breaking all the audience records in Spain. It has a powerful story that maintains the elements that every successful telenovela should have, passion, melodrama, and betrayal. However, it is also distinguished by its high production standards, with many outdoor locations. This kind of detail illustrates that it transcends the typical tropes of a telenovela. MORE

Still I Rise Zone3 International

Set in the heart of a disadvantaged neighbourhood, STILL I RISE tells the rough-and-tumble story of a policewoman who introduces four troubled young adults to mixed martial arts, hoping to give them a fighting chance at keeping their crime sheets clean. The idea does not meet with the unanimous approval of her colleagues and could cost her dearly. A second season is underway. MORE

The Witch Antenna Studios

1817 Ottoman-occupied Greece, in the unconquered region of Mani, two rival families are united by marriage and the birth of their first son. With the disappearance of the child a young maid’s vision leads her to the missing infant. As her visions intensify and suspicions of witchcraft emerge against her, she must find the infant’s kidnappers to save herself and avert a civil war that ends all hope of revolt against Greece’s occupiers. MORE

Codename: Annika Mediawan Rights

Finnish detective Emma Haka is still completing her undercover training when she gets sent on a mission into Stockholm's corrupt world of fine art trade. Calm and collected Emma takes on the wild and fiery alias of Annika Stormare with the goal of getting closer to the suspect.As the investigation takes Emma deeper into the underworld, lines start to blur between her and Annika… MORE

Déjate Ver (Show Yourself) ATRESMEDIA SALES

"Show yourself" is a dramatic comedy that revolves around the search for oneself and the need to transcend in today's world. It addresses issues such as identity, personal fulfilment, the world of art and entertainment, loneliness, the idea of family or the current relationship with technology, offering a point of view full of wit. MORE

Becoming Gabrielle Zone3 International

A young author in the making seeks to understand the world around her amidst social and political upheaval. Spread over three seasons, BECOMING GABRIELLE is a coming-of-age story that sees Gabrielle fight to escape her fate and emancipate herself through arts and literature, from her withdrawn hometown in Manitoba, Canada, to her eye-opening journey to Europe, just before WW2. MORE

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The Trigger STUDIOCANAL

A thought-provoking drama dissecting a media scandal spiraling out of control in the high-pressure world of professional football, from the creator of the critically acclaimed series BARON NOIR. MORE

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A Dangerous Friendship Mediawan Rights

From Emmy Awards Winner Alain Tasma. "Best Actor" at Series Mania 2024. The story of two young women, bound by a powerful friendship. Marie de Rohan-Montbazon is happy and vivacious, free-spirited and emancipated, while Anne of Austria, Queen of France, is prim, shy and, neglected by her husband, King Louis XIII. Marie concentrates all her energy on binging the royal couple together… at first… MORE

Money Shot Federation Studios

Life is meant to be enjoyed. MORE

Classified Series 1 DCD Rights

After a shooting near the US embassy puts a secretive international summit in Montreal at risk, married Canadian Secret Service (CSS) agents Rachel and Émile are pulled into a world of espionage and betrayal, where trust is hard to come by and every move could jeopardize national security. MORE

The Zweiflers ZDF Studios

Family patriarch Symcha Zweifler wants to sell his delicatessen empire when suddenly he is confronted with his past in Frankfurt's red-light district. Things get worse when Symcha's grandson Samuel and his girlfriend Saba are expecting a son. A tragic-comic search for the meaning of life begins. MORE

Pren ar y Bryn/Tree on a Hill All3Media International

Written and created by Hinterland/ Y Gwyll’s Ed Thomas, this Welsh language drama drew in slot winning figures following its BBC launch. The six aprt drama delivers a rich mix of dark humour, unique characters and a touch of the absurd, as it follows the lives of two unlikely heroes’, whose quiet existence is changed in an instant when they find themselves on the wrong side of the law. MORE

Ossan's Love Returns TV Asahi Corporation

The first season, which aired in 2018, became a social phenomenon in Japan. The new season started in January 2024. https://tv-asahicontents.com/en/ MORE

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66 North Precinct Seven.One Studios International

66 North Precinct mixes crime and black humour with the trials and tribulations of family life to create a warm and fresh new police procedural. MORE

Rough Cut (aka Dal y Mellt) Sphere Abacus

Based on Iwan (Iwcs) Roberts’ first novel ‘Dal y Mellt’, Rough Cut is a 6-part drama series, set in contemporary Wales, which takes us on a roller-coaster journey from Cardiff to Holyhead, from London to Dublin and to the farm of Bwlch y Gloch in old Caernarfonshire. MORE

Aftertaste Series 1 ABC Commercial

Has-been enfant terrible celebrity chef Easton West goes toe-to-toe with his irrepressible millennial niece in this edgy comedy with bite.

Available in Spanish and French. MORE

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In Memoriam Cineflix Rights

Following the death of their father, the heirs of a businessman must go through a series of troubling tests that reopen wounds of their childhood to get their hands on $84 million. But their memories put their family bond in jeopardy. MORE

Seeds Banijay Entertainment

At the Anjela Duval Agricultural High School in Brittany, the school year is in full swing. For Elsa, Lia, Medhi, and their fellow final-year students in the Agricultural Business Management program, graduation is just around the corner. MORE

23:23 Bomanbridge Media

The time-travelling crime thriller drama features inverstigators from two eras who must hunt for the truth in old unsolved cases, communicating only through an old radio. The signal between the past and the present only opens at 23:23. MORE

All and Eva Viaplay Content Distribution

Eva doesn't believe in love, but when she least expects it, she meets it in Mads. The only problem is that she is already pregnant, with his child, although he doesn’t know about it. MORE

Them Boat Rocker

Five supposed strangers find themselves trapped in an elevator together only to discover they have much more in common than they initially thought. A story of fate and friendship, Them is an enthralling dramatic series that follows Camille as she uncovers a dark family secret all the while finding comfort from a new group of unlikely friends. MORE

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