Canneseries 2022 Unveils Long Form Competition Finalists Including Oliver Hirschbiegel & Jean-Xavier De Lestrade Premieres & ‘The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen’
deadline.comCanneseries 2022 has unveiled its Long Form Competition finalists, with Academy Award winners Oliver Hirschbiegel’s Punishment and Jean-Xavier De Lestrade’s The Inside Game, Seeds of Wrath featuring alongside the likes of Zentropa’s The Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen.
Germany is the only nation to have more than one show on the prestigious list (the other being Alex Eslam’s Souls), which also features Canada’s Audrey’s Back, Spain’s El Inmortal, Belgium’s 1985, Norway’s Afterglow, Israel’s The Lesson and Italy’s Bang Bang Baby.
The latter, for Amazon Prime Video, is the only one from a global streaming service.All will be given international premieres and the majority world premieres, with the jury set to be announced in due course.Unveiling the list to Deadline, Canneseries Artistic Director Albin Lewi described the crop of 10 as showcasing “creativity at its best, reflecting the true diversity of content.”The Short Form Competition will be announced tomorrow and a press conference today also saw the fifth Canneseries, which runs concurrently with Mip TV from April 1 to 6, unveil Euphoria star Sydney Sweeney as the winner of its Madame Figaro Rising Star Award, along with the shows playing out of competition: Halo, Le Flambeau, Les Aventuriers De Chupacabra, Infiniti and Visions.The prestigious Long Form Competition will spark plenty of interest, with two Academy Award-winners in Downfall’s Hirschbiegel and Murder on a Sunday Morning’s De Lestrade featuring with shows for RTL+/VOX and ARTE respectively.Elsewhere, Dunja Gry’sThe Dreamer – Becoming Karen Blixen for Scandi streamer Viaplay comes from Lars Von Trier’s Zentropa, as the same company’s feature The Worst Person in the World garners plenty of Oscar interest,
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