Arte’s Franco-Iranian coming-of-age net sequence Happiness gained the Viewers Alternative Award at this year’s SerienCamp, capping off a record-breaking version of Germany’s largest television pageant.
The sequence, created by Pouria Takavar and starring Ghazal Shojaei as an Iranian scholar navigating a brand new life in Paris, topped the viewers vote after incomes a five-minute standing ovation throughout its Cologne screening. Happiness launches its second season later this month.
The viewers award victory got here forward of Arne Feldhusen’s absurdist ZDF comedy The Flaws, which completed second within the public vote after earlier profitable SerienCamp’s official competitors prize. Organizers introduced the winners Friday as they reported report attendance figures for each the general public pageant and accompanying {industry} convention. Practically 1,000 accredited {industry} professionals attended the three-day occasion, alongside roughly 4,000 pageant company.
The Critics’ Alternative Award went to Channel 4’s Northern Irish drama Trespasses, the variation of Louise Kennedy’s acclaimed novel starring Gillian Anderson.
Different honors introduced throughout the week included the European Collection Improvement Award, which carries €50,000 ($57,000) in funding and went to German political thriller Radio Free Europe. The Co-Productions Pitch Award was awarded to Icelandic music-industry drama GusGus, whereas Czech horror-comedy venture Paralegal gained the Writers Imaginative and prescient Pitch Award.
The pageant showcased round 20 premieres over three days, with a give attention to international sequence, together with Bangladeshi sci-fi horror sequence AnniE, from director Abdullah Mohammad Saad (Rehana Maryam Noor), and Braunschlag 1986, the sequel to the cult Austrian darkish comedy.
Convention classes targeted closely on the way forward for AI-driven tv manufacturing, whereas executives, creators and producers used the occasion to pitch tasks, search financing and preview upcoming sequence. Audio system this yr included Halo showrunner Steven Kane and Skins co-creator Bryan Elsley.
“We are thrilled to see awards go to series like The Flaws, which take stylistic risks, or Happiness, which is incredibly attuned to current events,” Seriencamp co-managing director Malko Solf stated in an announcement. “We also want to thank the Cologne audience, who turned out in large numbers over the three days of the festival, filled the theaters, and showed so much enthusiasm.”
The thirteenth version of Seriencamp will return to Cologne from June 8-10, 2027.
