Seriesly Berlin

PROGRAM 24

Explore the program from SERIESLY Berlin 2024! While the event has concluded, the highlights and schedules are available for your reference. Stay tuned for updates and details about next year’s festival.

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DER UPIR
Human – Upir – Vampire: Climbing the career ladder to immortality was not actually Eddie's (Fahri Yardım) goal. But during a house viewing, the hip Berlin burger joint owner is bitten in the depths of the basement by vampire Igor (Rocko Schamoni). From that moment on, Eddie's transformation from human to bloodsucker begins. He can only prevent this metamorphosis by being unconditionally at Igor's service as Upir. In the disposal of corpses as well as in his amorous ambitions.
DAY 1 | Mo 16.09.24 19:00 - 20:32 (4 x 23 min.)
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 LA FIÈVRE (THE TRIGGER)
The extended family of French football is gathering during a high-profile party to celebrate the end of the season. But scandal erupts when star player Fodé Thiam violently headbutts his coach and uses a slur against him, inciting accusations of racism and angry demands to exclude him from the team. The club calls for Sam, a brilliant but emotionally unstable PR fixer, to diffuse the crisis and save the team's future. Sam’s journey takes a personal turn when she discovers that her former best friend is now a far-right leader working to exploit this situation for political gain. As the case unfolds, it tears painful rifts in French society and sparks the biggest fight of Sam’s career, pitting her against her most feared adversary. From the creator of the critically acclaimed series Baron Noir and the producers of worldwide hit The Intouchables (BAFTA and Golden Globe nominations for Best Foreign Film).
DAY 1 | Mo 16.09.24 21:30 - 23:14 (2x 52 min.)
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PENELOPE
Like most teenagers today, Penelope is caught up in the modern world’s technology, pacing and pressure. But something is missing, and things feel off, she just can’t quite put it into words. On the surface, her life seems pretty great, while inside, there’s a fierceness that’s been brewing, a calling towards a new way of being. After a chance encounter with a wolf and a rabbit on a school camping trip, the call becomes too loud for Penelope to ignore. When no one is looking, she runs away. Without a plan, Penelope navigates her way through a series of encounters, traveling a long distance and eventually sneaking into a National Forest. But this is only the beginning of what will become a long journey through the unknown wilderness and Penelope’s quest to find her place in it. World premiere at Sundance 2024
DAY 2 | 17.09.24 19:00 - 20:30 (3 x 30 min.)
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SPINNERS
Ethan is a good kid born on the wrong side of town. In Cape Town's slums where local gangs make the law, he is soon left with no choice but to work for one of them to support himself and his younger brother. Caught in a web of crime, he discovers he has an incredible talent for spinning, an exciting and extreme motorsport. Could this be his way out from the violent criminal life that seems to be the only option to survive in his neighbourhood? Selected at CANNESERIES, winner of three awards at the Dakar Series Festival 2023 and of the Magnolia Award for Best Foreign TV Serie at Shanghai TV Festival 2024, the fresh tone, vibrant characters and the breath-taking action make this coming-of-age story an irresistible must-see.
DAY 2 | 17.09.24 21:30 - 23:10 (2 x 50 min.)
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THE UNDERGROUND RAILROAD
In this 8-part documentary series for Dutch public television, two friends and fellow filmmakers, Martijn Blekendaal & Finbarr Wilbrink, one black, one white, embark on a transformative American road trip along the old tracks of the Underground Railroad, during slavery times a resistance group that helped smuggle enslaved people to freedom, from the sun-drenched South to the icy North of the United States. Finbarr and Martijn aim to unlock the mystery of how people can coexist in the face of such political polarization and a history of bloodshed. New Orleans, Alabama, Atlanta, Mississippi, St Louis, Chicago, Detroit: can the folks they meet on the road illuminate a path forward that transcends the boundaries of race and politics and serve as a mirror that reflects their own struggles, teaching them how to navigate the treacherous waters of the division within their own society?
DAY 3 | 18.09.24 19:00 - 20:30 (90 min.)
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VESTIDAS DE AZUL (DRESSED IN BLUE)
Two years after the death of La Veneno, Valeria finds the tape that narrates the experiences of six transsexuals in Spain in the early 1980s. These experiences will inspire Valeria's new book which, once again, decides to tell the story of women who do not deserve to be forgotten. Vestidas de Azul (Dressed in Blue) maintains the same narrative structure as Veneno, straddling the present and the past, intertwining the lives of its protagonists. It deals with the reality of transgender people in the 1980s, a very hostile period for the collective, through the six protagonists of the documentary Vestida de Azul. The second season of the successful series Veneno, winner of the Fotogramas de Plata for best Spanish series according to readers, the Iria Critics Award and best direction, as well as the GLAAD Media Award for best Spanish-language series. Its actresses won the Ondas Award for Best Actress and it also received three nominations at the Feroz Awards and one at the Forqué Awards.
DAY 3 | 18.09.24 21:30 - 23:10 (2 x 50 min.)
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