LILLE, France — “Yours, Margot,” from “Compartment No 6’s” Juho Kuosmanen, Guatemalan Cannes Camera d’Or winner César Díaz (“Our Mothers”) and Brazil’s Beatriz Seigner (…
Though all three series range hugely in setting and creators, all three see their protagonists go back to a recent past to explore events that have impacted their family , their modern-day country , or traumas in the present .
Doing so they form part of one of the biggest trends in current issue-driven series, through the resort to an alternative, future or recent past setting to talk with varying degrees of directness about the present. Beatriz Seigner, Fernando Epstein & Cesar Diaz., with “Compartment” scribes Andris Feldmanis and Livia Ulman also on board. It turns on Vilja, who spent her childhood in East Berlin, following her foreign correspondent father.
The series, tracing the collapse of the German Democratic Republic, will still concentrate mostly on “the collapse of the family,” Rantamäki told “The Invisible Ink” is a drama-thriller in which a former Uruguayan anarchist, now leading a quiet life in Belgium, finds on his doorstep his former torturer who threatens to kill his family if he doesn’t hand over hidden loot.
The ex-revolutionary must return to Uruguay and confront people who thought him dead for 20 years. Producer Fernando Epstein, whose credits include “25 Watts” and “Whisky” co-writes. Written by writer-director Maira Bühler , “Amigas” will receive a €20,000 award, courtesy of the Kirch Foundation in collaboration with HFF . In it, five high school girl friends meet once more at their 25th graduation anniversary, and finally face a traumatic experience they lived together as teens.
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