Crave and NRK original So Long, Marianne (pictured) and Club illico drama Société distincte will make their world premieres at Series Mania next month.

The Lille, France-based television festival announced its lineup on Wednesday (Feb. 7), with So Long, Marianne set as one of eight series to run in its International Competition program. The festival runs from March 15 to 22.

So Long, Marianne is a Norway-Canada-Greece coproduction, produced by Montreal’s Connect3 (C3) Media with Tanweer Productions and Letters From Leonard.

Created by Øystein Karlsen and developed by Ingeborg Klyve and Tony Wood, the series tells the love story between famed Canadian singer and poet Leonard Cohen (played by Alex Wolff) and his muse Marianne Ihlen (Thea Sofie Loch Næss). 

Executive producers on the series include Wood, Klyve, Richard Tulk-Hart and Vegard Stenberg Eriksen for Oslo-based Redpoint Productions; André Barro and Pablo Salzman for C3; Dionyssis Samiotis and Nancy Kokolaki for Greece-based Tanweer Productions; and Ales Ree for Norwegian broadcaster NRK. Cineflix Rights is handling worldwide distribution.

Making its world premiere in the International Panorama program is Société distincte, written, directed and produced by Benoit Lach. 

The 10 x 60-minute drama is produced by Lach’s Montreal banner Blach Films, in association with Quebecor Content, and follows a ufologist who is obsessed with the disappearance of his younger brother when they were children. It will debut on Club illico later this year. 

Ici Tout.TV Extra series Ça prend pas la tchas à Papineau has been selected for Series Mania’s Short-Form Competition, where it will make its international premiere.

The 7 x 10-minute series is produced by Montreal’s Trio Orange, written by Lex Garcia and directed by Émilie Mannering. It follows a widower who balances raising two sons with working at a barber shop. 

Also making its international premiere is Unis TV’s Peasantries (Les Oubliettes), produced by St Laurent TV from writer-director Bertrand Desrochers and Héloïse Desrochers. The 6 x 12-minute short-form series is running in the Comedy Competition. 

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