SERIES MANIA Digital

Forum
PROFESSIONAL PLATFORM
MARCH 24-26 2026
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Grand Théâtre | Tuesday 24 March - 10.00 to 11.30
Meetings

CO-PRO PITCHING SESSIONS 1-8

  • Wednesday 25 March - 09.30 to 10.15
    Rencontre
    Wednesday 25 March - 09.30 to 10.15

    How can distributors stay relevant when broadcasters platforms forge alliances?

  • Wednesday 25 March - 10.30 to 11.15
    Rencontre
    Wednesday 25 March - 10.30 to 11.15

    Creation under pressure: towards a risk of (self-)censorship?

  • Wednesday 25 March - 11.30 to 12.15
    Rencontre
    Wednesday 25 March - 11.30 to 12.15

    Best Marketing Initiative for Series

  • Wednesday 25 March - 15.45 to 16.15
    Rencontre
    Wednesday 25 March - 15.45 to 16.15

    Talent Masterclass: Showrunner Russell T. Davies & Producer Nicola Shindler

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  • Monday 23 March - 12.45 - 14.30
    Monday 23 March - 12.45 to 14.30
    BETA BRUNCH
    Forum events
    CCI - Chambre de commerce et d'industrie

    BETA BRUNCH

  • Monday 23 March - 14.30 - 18.30
    Monday 23 March - 14.30 to 18.30
    BUYERS UPFRONT
    Forum events
    CCI - Chambre de commerce et d'industrie

    BUYERS UPFRONT

  • Monday 23 March - 18.00 - 20.00
    Monday 23 March - 18.00 to 20.00
    WELCOME DRINKS
    Forum events
    CCI - Chambre de commerce et d'industrie

    WELCOME DRINKS

  • Monday 23 March - 20.30 - 22.30
    Monday 23 March - 20.30 to 22.30
    Buyers Upfront Dinner
    Forum events
    L'Hermitage Gantois

    Buyers Upfront Dinner

  • Tuesday 24 March - 08.30 - 10.00
    Tuesday 24 March - 08.30 to 10.00
    International Horizons - Meet the Producers from Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales.
    Forum events
    Salon Bleu

    International Horizons - Meet the Producers from Scotland, Northern Ireland & Wales.

  • Tuesday 24 March - 10.00 - 11.00
    Tuesday 24 March - 10.00 to 11.00
    Key trends in TV and VOD markets

    Théâtre Louis Pasteur

    Key trends in TV and VOD markets

  • Tuesday 24 March - 10.00 - 11.30
    Tuesday 24 March - 10.00 to 11.30
    CO-PRO PITCHING SESSIONS 1-8

    Grand Théâtre

    CO-PRO PITCHING SESSIONS 1-8

  • Tuesday 24 March - 11.15 - 11.45
    Tuesday 24 March - 11.15 to 11.45
    A year in series

    Théâtre Louis Pasteur

    A year in series

  • Tuesday 24 March - 11.30 - 12.15
    Tuesday 24 March - 11.30 to 12.15
    A New Generation of Tools for Series Development
    Showcases en
    Room 3.5 + 3.6

    A New Generation of Tools for Series Development

  • Tuesday 24 March - 11.45 - 13.00
    Tuesday 24 March - 11.45 to 13.00
    CO-PRO PITCHING SESSIONS 9-16

    Grand Théâtre

    CO-PRO PITCHING SESSIONS 9-16

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Discover our 2026 Projects

  • Suf

    Serial Bridges Central Asia

    Suf

    In modern Almaty, a gifted young shaman from a women-only healing dynasty must choose between preserving her inherited power or claiming a life of her own.

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  • Humanitarians!

    Authentica Series Lab

    Humanitarians!

    1999 war-torn Sudan, Nour, a 24-year-old Egyptian idealist, arrives to start her dream job at a humanitarian organization to discover that it runs on ego, cynicism & a permanently jammed fax machine.

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  • Outlaw Educators

    APOLLO SERIES

    Outlaw Educators

    Three unsuccessful robbers led by Max, fleeing from gangsters after a failed robbery of money-laundering center in Kyiv, hide under the guise of volunteers in a provincial orphanage where Max grew up.

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  • Safe Harbor

    Sam Spiegel Series Lab

    Safe Harbor

    Two Mossad agents pose as a married couple seeking to foster a nine-year-old Lebanese boy. The child is their gateway to recruit his mother; a woman deeply embedded in Hezbollah’s organization.

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Producers, distributors, directors, content creators... Meet and exchange ideas with other series professionals attending the Forum!

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Discover the IPs 2026

  • Unfiltered

    Short Series

    Unfiltered

    In Sense filTRES Season 2, group chats are more than messages—they are identity, belonging, and conflict. Across three interlinked stories, they reveal bonds, clashes, and the risks of sharing, showing the complex truths of modern youth in a raw, unfiltered portrait of growing up online and offline.

     

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  • My Sister's Secret

    Books

    My Sister's Secret

    Two estranged sisters are forced back together when a charismatic psychiatrist enters their lives, only to expose buried childhood trauma and a long-suppressed crime. As love turns toxic and memories fracture, they must confront their past before a manipulative man destroys them both. A psychological thriller about sisterhood, power and fractured memory, packed with bold twists, intimate[...]
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  • Hirayasumi

    Short Series

    Hirayasumi

    When easygoing 29-year-old Hiroto unexpectedly inherits a cozy one-story hiraya from a kindly neighbor, his unhurried life shifts as his 18-year-old cousin Natsumi arrives from the countryside to live with him. Their gentle coexistence in a small Tokyo home becomes a refuge for people worn down by modern life—an understated, heartwarming tale of ordinary days that quietly save you.

     

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  • Dry your tears

    Books

    Dry your tears

    In the streets of annemasse, Emma Delorme investigates a kidnapping that echoes her own past.

     

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