EXCLUSIVE: Seriesly Berlin‘s second version will embody no less than 5 premieres and panels on all the things from energy, trend and manufacturing.
The premieres, which is able to happen within the German capital between September 15-18 will comprise Eve’s Rib (La Costilla de Eva) from Colombia, Home of Bellevue from Germany, Kazakh Scary Tales from Kazakhstan, Oh, Otto! from Belgium and Sanajiit (Inuit Makers) from Canada.
Audio system will embody designer Be Inthavong, who led the costume design within the newest season of The White Lotus, Walt disney Germany unique manufacturing boss Benjamina Mirnik-Voges and Drops of God exec producer Klaus Zimmermann.
Seriesly, which might be holding its second version on the Fotografiska Berlin, has tried to carve out a distinct segment within the European convention and competition world by taking a difficult method to panels and premieres in a bid to ignite conversations round trade subjects in new methods.
As for the premieres, Eve’s Rib is ready in a Colombian metropolis haunted by a serial killer focusing on homosexuals, following a bunch younger folks exploring their sexuality amid worry and prejudice. It’s from Colombian Tv and produced by Cóncavo Movies, and James Camargo de Alba is the director.
Home of Bellevue follows 19-year-old Emiel as he escapes a small city to immerse himself in Berlin’s dazzling ballroom scene and appears at themes of id, chosen household and queer love. Florence Kasumba, Komi M. Togbonou, Ricco-Jarret Boateng, Nora Henes, Abed Haddad, Kawian Paigal, Ilonka Petruschka, Robin Kadet, Lie Ning and Binta Yaffa star within the sequence, which is for German internet ZDFneo and comes from Don’t Panic Movies.
Kazakh Scary Tales follows investigator Birzhan, who, determined for a promotion, takes on on chilly circumstances from distant villages shrouded in thriller. Although he doesn’t consider within the supernatural, elders whisper of an historical curse in a single village the place infants are disappearing. Adilkhan Yerzhanov is the director and Freedom Media produced in-house for its streaming service.
Streamz drama Oh, Otto! follows a captivating and considerably clumsy 26-year-old, who navigates heartbreak and id within the the colourful queer neighborhood after a five-year relationship ends.
Eyeworks Movie & TV Drama produced the sequence, with Stijn van Kerkhoven the director and Jonathan Michiels and Jennifer Heylen main the forged.
Sanajiit (Inuit Makers) is a 13-part doc sequence that explores the day by day lives and inventive worlds of Inuit “Makers” in Nunavut, utilizing a gradual TV method. Uvagut TV is the broadcaster and Isuma TV the producer, with Susan Avingaq, Gabriela Gamez, Carol Kunnuk directing.
On the panels entrance, White Lotus desigenr Inthavong will seem in a ‘Dressed To Impress: Style as a Narrative Power’ session that may discover how designers and trend manufacturers use TV as inventive platforms, how product placement turns into cultural foreign money and the way sequence profit from collaborating with the style world.
A state-of-the-union-style session, ‘Storytelling 2030: Who Pays, Who Performs? Energy, platform, and the value of creativity in a altering world’ will function the likes of Mirnik-Voges, the VP Unique Manufacturing at The Walt Disney Firm Germany and Sabine de Mard, President of Gaumont Germany.
Held in partnership with the Göteborg Movie Pageant’s TV Drama Imaginative and prescient observe, ‘Nordic-German Co-Producing’ will function Miira Paasilinna, the COO of Anagram Group and Managing Director of Anagram Sweden, who has produced and offered worldwide productions equivalent to Disney+’s first Nordic unique To Cook dinner a Bear.
‘Past the Regular Suspects: Reinventing Co-Productions’ will see Drops of God co-producer Zimmermann from Dynamic TV explaining how the Worldwide Emmy-winning Apple TV+ sequence introduced collectively companions from Japan and France. Rahul Patel, Principal Analyst at Ampere Evaluation, will add knowledge outlining market realities.
Elsewhere, in what’s going to seemingly be an emotive second, Seriesly is pushing the boat out with a panel titled ‘Tales for Tomorrow: How Collaborative Palestinian and Israeli Writing Transforms Tv’. Held in partnership with Albi, a New York-based fund that backs Israeli and Palestinian creators, the session will see creatives from each nations discussing how collaborative storytelling can reshape how identities are portrayed and understood. Actor-director Yousef Sweid (The Goat, Between the River and the Sea), Non-Situation co-creators Nayef Hammoud and Gal Rosenbluth, program director Keren Michael, and Albi founder Libby Lenkinski will seem.
‘What The Heck Is A Queer Present?! Queerness in Mainstream TV’, in the meantime, will see Oh, Otto! director Kerkhoven ongoing challenges in representations of queerness and is held in partnership with Queer Media Society, whereas ‘Constructing Concern That Stays With You: How Horror Works in Episodes’ will see Turkish director, producer and author Can Evrenol (Baskın) and German writer-director Until Kleinert (Der Samurai) discussing low dread, rigidity constructing and mythologies unfold uniquely in serialized storytelling.
There may also be a workshop sequence starting from producer-focused classes equivalent to ‘Germany 2026: Movie & Sequence Funding – Turning New Guidelines into Alternatives, and writer-centric classes equivalent to ‘Improvement Hell’ from screenwriter and inventive producer Elena Lyubarskaya (Pauline).
“With this yr’s program, we stay true to our mission of making areas for tales and themes that usually don’t have any place on different levels,” mentioned Pageant Director Dennis Ruh. “We need to carry ahead voices and subjects which are often left unstated. Seriesly Berlin goals to indicate the surprising, to spark conversations, and to push the boundaries of storytelling.”
