Section International panorama 2020
July 22 (NOR, 2020)
The reconstruction of the events of July 22, when Anders Breivik first killed seven people with a bomb attack near the government buildings in Oslo and then shot dead 69 children at a camp on the island of Utøya. However, instead of Breivik we follow several fictional characters representing the people of Norway, who had to deal with the consequences of the disaster immediately....
The Minister (ISL, 2020)
"We all have the same opinion on 95 % of the topics, we just act like we don’t," says the bipolar politician in the election debate, and things pick up speed - immediately everyone in the nation loves him. In a small and specific environment, the series shows the phenomena that we are slowly getting used to everywhere at the moment, for example, the easy infiltration of elements of media shows into high politics....
We Got This (SWE, 2020)
The assassination of Prime Minister Olof Palme is perhaps the most known story in recent national history in Sweden. The American Schiaffino Musarra, who lives in Sweden for years, this time turned the local obsession with the death of the popular social democrat and the national mystery, which probably contributed to the local popularity of detective stories, into topics for parody....
Laetitia (FRA, 2020)
The first French series to get into the selection of the Sundance Film Festival was based on a four-year-old book by local historian Ivan Jablonka. He received the Prix Médicis literary award for his literary reconstruction of the actual case of the murder of an 18-year-old girl that the whole country learned about....
Peacemaker (FIN, 2020)
A sophisticated and visually striking political drama with elements of a political thriller and an unusual protagonist takes place in Syria, Turkey and Spain and focuses on the negotiation process and on relations between high-ranking people of international politics....