Spanish marital drama Querer was awarded the Worldwide Competitors grand prize on the 2025 Collection Mania competition on Friday night time (March 28) in Lille, France.
Created by Alauda Ruiz de Azua, Eduard Sola and Julia de Paz, the sequence 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 sequence The German concerning 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 concerning 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 greatest actor for taking part in 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 sequence Empathy a few younger borderline psychiatrist working in a jail hospital.
The French Competitors’s prime prize went to Arte sequence 37 Secondes, offered by ITV studios, based mostly on the true story of the thriller surrounding the disappearance of a Breton trawler and its crew. Elsa Guedj took greatest actress for Max sequence Reformed (Le Sens Des Choses), Arthur Dupont received greatest actor for La Famille Rose, and Anthony D’Amario and Edouard Rigaudière received greatest rating for Log Out.
One other Spanish sequence Celeste received the perfect sequence award within the Worldwide Panorama competitors with Belgian sequence Putain getting a particular point out. Celeste star Carmen Machi took greatest actress, and Matthew Gurney earned the perfect actor prize for BBC sequence Reunion. Ida Panahandeh received the perfect directing award for Iranian sequence At The Finish Of The Night time that dissects the separation of a married couple.
The quick kind competitors’s prime award went to Danish younger grownup romance drama One Of Us Is Trembling.
Each the competition and Discussion board attracted a spate of expertise and prime executives to the northern French occasion with some 5,000 professionals accredited for the Discussion board, up 20% from final 12 months, together with 500 consumers from 75 nations.
The competition attracted greater than 108,000 spectators, 10,000 greater than final 12 months, 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 instructed Display screen.
Competition founder and common supervisor Laurence Herszberg applauded the jury’s choice saying the choice committee selected sequence “that have been very open to the world, and we’re delighted that the prizes mirror these decisions by rewarding, amongst others, an American unbiased sequence, an Israeli sequence, an Algerian sequence and an Iranian sequence.”
