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Arcadia

8 x 50', First Season

Arcadia (Bild: Jonnydepony/Maarten De Bouw)

After the world survived the outburst of a deadly virus, a new society is created, called Arcadia. Because resources in this new world are scarce, a Citizen Score is introduced. It determines your rights and entitlements. People are forced to stay healthy, focused, and efficient.

We follow the life of a hardworking family that is able to enjoy a good life because of their high score. Everything changes when dad Pieter is deported from Arcadia to the outer world because he tricked the algorithm and artificially inflated his wife's and two daughters' Citizen Score. The women are punished with penalty points which lower their score severely. Can they get back to their old score or has the downward spiral begun?

How do you survive in a world where your Citizen Score determines whether you can keep on living or not?

Cast: Gene Bervoets, Monic Hendrickx, Wim Opbrouck, Abigail Abraham, Lynn Van Royen, Ellie de Lange, Melody Klaver, Naomi Janssens

Screenplay: Philippe De Schepper, Bas Adriaensen, Zita Theunynck

Director: Tim Oliehoek

Production: Jonnydepony/Helen Perquy in coproduction with VRT, NPO/KRO-NCRV, WDR/SWR

Helsinki Syndrome

8 x 50'

Helsinki Syndrome (Bild: Fisher King Oy)

Helsinki Syndrome tells the story of Elias Karo who kidnaps four respected journalists in the office of the main newspaperin Helsinki. Over the course of several years, Karo has devised a scheme to reveal the crimes that he feels, banking officials and the government have committed against his family.

Trigged by the pandemic, he sets his plan in motion and forces the journalists to investigate and expose the machinations that drove his father to suicide and ruined his family’s reputation.

Inspired by true events that took place during the 1990s banking crisis in Finland, the series deals with the feeling of increasing inequality in western society.

Cast: Peter Franzén, Oona Airola, Taneli Mäkelä, Mari Rantasila, Eero Saarinen, Laura Malmivaara, Tuulia Eloranta, Antti Luusuaniemi.

Screenplay: Miikko Oikkonen, Olli Koivula, Olli Suitiala, Tuomas Hakola

Directors: Juuso Syrjä, Marko Mäkilaakso

Production: Fisher King in coproduction with Beta Film and YLE, NDR and Arte.

YLE Original Series

Recent projects

Eden

6 x 45'

Eden (Bild: SWR /Pierre Marsaut)

A Greek beach on a sunny day. All of a sudden, a small dinghy boat crammed with fifty refugees lands on the beach and its passengers start running through a crowd of stunned tourists. This disturbing scene shapes the destinies of many characters: a Nigerian on the run, a Greek security guard haunted by guilt, a French camp owner caught up in the upheaval, a German couple hosting a secretive refugee, a Syrian family taking a fresh start in Paris but soon to be tormented by their past.

Europe’s migration crisis from various perspectives: the world behind the doors of Brussel’s European Commission, the private security sector, the daily lives of refugees arriving in Europe and the reactions of the European society to them.

Cast: Sylvie Testud, Juliane Köhler, Wolfram Koch, Diamand Bou Abboud, Maxim Khalil, Joshua Edoze, Theo Alexander, Michaelis Ikonomou, Adnan Jafar u.v.a.

Screenplay/Headwriter: Constantin Lieb (based on the idea by Jano Ben Chaabane und Felix Randau)

Director: Dominik Moll

Production: Lupa-Film (Felix von Boehm), Port-au-Prince (Jan Krüger), Atlantique (Jimmy Desmarais), Nexus factory, Umedia in coproduction with Arte France, Arte G.E.I.E and SWR

Nona et ses filles (Nona and her daughters)

9 x 30'

Nona and her daughters (Bild: SWR/ARTE/Gaumont /Stephanie Branchu)

Nona and her daughters is the story of a heroine who regains her power, who defends her differences, her femininity and her motherhood. As a reflection of herself, the story follows the trajectory of her three forty-four year old triplets, Manu, Gaby and George through the lens of Valérie Donzelli's tender but committed look at the modern woman. Women, who are sometimes powerful, sometimes fragile but always free, whatever the circumstances and choices they make.

Cast: Miou Miou, Virginie Ledoyen, Valérie Donzelli, Clotilde Hesme, Barnaby Metschurat, Rüdiger Vogler, Antoine Reinartz, Christopher Thompson, Léonie Simaga, Michel Vuillermoz

Screenplay: Clémence Perdrillat and Valérie Donzelli

Director: Valérie Donzelli

Production: Gaumont Télévisions in co-production with Rectangle Production and Les films de Florence for Arte France and SWR/ARD

Parlement (Parliament)

10 x 25’, Two Seasons

Parlement (Bild: France Télévision)

Samy, a young parliamentary assistant arrives in Brussels a few weeks after the Brexit referendum. He is obviously not fit for the job. In fact, Samy doesn’t know much about European institutions and he hopes to get away with it thanks to his wit and cleverness… Well, through luck: he gets quickly assigned an obscure mission : write a report on finning (the act of removing fins from sharks and discarding the rest of the animal). How do you get a report adopted at the European Parliament? Samy has no clue. He has six months to make it, six months to master the secrets of the Parliament.

Cast: Xavier Lacaille, Philippe Duquesne, Liz Kingsman, Lucas Englander, Christiane Paul (S1), Johann von Bülow (S2), Martina Eitner-Acheampong (S2)

Screenplay: Noé Debré, Daran Johnson, Pierre Dorac, Maxime Calligaro

Director: Émilie Noblet, Jérémie Sein

Production: Cinétévé / Fabienne Servan-Schreiber, Thomas Saignes, Artémis Productions, Cinecentrum, Serienwerft/Jan Diepers, Dagmar Rosenbauer, WDR/SWR, ONE

Heirs of the night

26 x 25’

Heirs of the night (Bild: Lemmingfilm/NDR)

Set in 1889, the children of the five remaining Vampire Clans in Europe - the so called Heirs of the Night - come together to join forces, as each child has individual powers unique to their clan. They will have to set aside their initial differences aboard a travelling school ship and unite - to defend their lives against none other than Lord Dracula himself. Destiny has given Alisa, heiress of the German Vamalia clan, the gift of love - which leads her to a troubling choice between Nicu, a human boy, and her fellow Norwegian heir Lars. But she also inherited the gift of the spark: a curse so powerful, it could destroy all vampires. Young Alisa will eventually have to decide over everyone's fate - will she make the right choice?

Cast: Anastasia Martin, Ulrik William Graesli, Aisling Sharkey, Jordan Adene, Charlie Banks, Lance West, Julian Bleach, Monic Hendrickx et.al.

Screenplay: Maria von Heland and Diederik van Rooijen, based on the novels by Ulrike Schweikert

Directors: Diderik van Rooijen, Thale Persen

Production: Lemming Film NL/D/ Maze Productions/Maipo Film/ZDF Enterprises in coproduction with NRK, AVROTOS, NDR

18.2.2022