Spanish marital drama Querer was awarded the Worldwide Competitors grand prize on the 2025 Collection Mania pageant on Friday night time (March 28) in Lille, France.
Created by Alauda Ruiz de Azua, Eduard Sola and Julia de Paz, the collection is broadcast, co-produced and offered by Movistar Plus+ and centres on a household grappling with accusations of marital rape. The producers are Kowalski Movies, Feelgood Media and Moviestar Plus+ and Arte is broadcasting in France.
The Worldwide Competitors jury, presided over by US actress, screenwriter, producer and director Pamela Adlon, additionally gave its writing award to Moshe Zonder and Ronit Weiss Berkowitz for Israeli-American collection The German in regards to the Nineteen Seventies hunt for Nazi criminals, offered by Lionsgate TV.
The jury gave a particular point out to Jean-Stephane Bron and Alice Wincourt’s Switzerland-France-Luxembourg-Belgium co-production The Deal in regards to the 2015 US-Iran nuclear talks that additionally received the Patrons Alternative award on the inaugural consumers upfront forward of the Discussion board’s kickoff.
Lili Reinhart received the perfect actress prize for Cooper Raiff’s self-financed Sundance-premiering household drama Hal & Harper and Luca Marinelli received finest actor for enjoying the titular Benito Mussolini in Joe Wright’s Mussolini: Son Of The Century, offered by Fremantle and broadcast on Sky.
The Worldwide Competitors viewers award went to Quebecois collection Empathy a few younger borderline psychiatrist working in a jail hospital.
The French Competitors’s high prize went to Arte collection 37 Secondes, offered by ITV studios, primarily based on the true story of the thriller surrounding the disappearance of a Breton trawler and its crew. Elsa Guedj took finest actress for Max collection Reformed (Le Sens Des Choses), Arthur Dupont received finest actor for La Famille Rose, and Anthony D’Amario and Edouard Rigaudière received finest rating for Log Out.
One other Spanish collection Celeste received the perfect collection award within the Worldwide Panorama competitors with Belgian collection Putain getting a particular point out. Celeste star Carmen Machi took finest actress, and Matthew Gurney earned the perfect actor prize for BBC collection Reunion. Ida Panahandeh received the perfect directing award for Iranian collection At The Finish Of The Evening that dissects the separation of a married couple.
The brief kind competitors’s high award went to Danish younger grownup romance drama One Of Us Is Trembling.
Each the pageant and Discussion board attracted a spate of expertise and high executives to the northern French occasion with some 5,000 professionals accredited for the Discussion board, up 20% from final yr, together with 500 consumers from 75 international locations.
The pageant attracted greater than 108,000 spectators, 10,000 greater than final yr, because of a bevy of worldwide stars like Amanda Seyfriend, Christina Hendricks and Charlie Brooker plus native legends Alain Chabat, Audrey Fleurot, Gilles Lellouche and even former French president François Hollande. “It was a document version past our expectations,” director of Collection Mania Discussion board Francesco Capurro informed Display.
Competition founder and common supervisor Laurence Herszberg applauded the jury’s choice saying the choice committee selected collection “that have been very open to the world, and we’re delighted that the prizes replicate these decisions by rewarding, amongst others, an American impartial collection, an Israeli collection, an Algerian collection and an Iranian collection.”