Since its creation, CANNESERIES has been committed to promoting a vision of entertainment where boldness, diversity, and inclusion take center stage. CANNESERIES sees itself as a Festival of its time, a space where every voice matters and where diversity is not a trend, but a necessity. Once again this year, we have strengthened our commitment within the Festival’s program and beyond its walls, celebrating the richness of diverse storytelling.
DURING THE FESTIVAL
SCHOOL SESSIONS WITHIN THE PROGRAM
Since the very first year, dedicated days have been set aside for school audiences—middle and high school students—with screenings designed for them, and even by them. In partnership with the Académie de Nice, the Festival reserves a slot in its school program to host the CANNES MINISÉRIES session, featuring the screening of a web series created by high school students from the Académie de Nice, supporting the creativity of the next generation.
The Academic Delegation for Artistic and Cultural Education of Nice presents an eighth web series as part of its partnership with CANNESERIES. This original project is based on collaboration between music students and filmmaking students. Some participants also worked with cultural partners such as Le Cercle Rouge and Cannes Cinéma.
As part of the “Year of Marcel Pagnol,” the series is titled Sous les Auspices de Marcel (“Under the Auspices of Marcel”) and draws inspiration from a line in The Schpountz — “You’re not good for nothing, you’re bad at everything” — which serves as the guiding thread of each episode, treated with a light-hearted tone. For the fist time this year, the web series was screened on the incredible screen of the legendary Auditorium Louis Lumière of the Palais des Festivals.
They also benefited from:
A conversation with the composers Anthony d'Amario and Edouard Rigaudière
The Broos: screening of eight episodes, followed by a conversation with the creator, writer, director and voice David Mirailles and producer Gabrielle d'Andrimont
Blue Gold: screening of an episode followed by a conversation with the producer Aline Panel and the actresses Barbara Probst et Déborah Krey
Deep: screening of two episodes, followed by a conversation with the creator and director Aurélien Molas
Solo at Sea, The Vendée Globe Sailing Race: screening of two episodes, followed by a conversation with the director Thomas Sametin, and the skippers Conrad Colman, Jérémie Beyou, Pip Hare and Thomas Ruyant.
Throughout the festival, educational outreach continued in collaboration with Cannes Cinéma, as middle and high school classes attended various screenings and discussions, as well as Competition screenings in the Grand Auditorium Lumière.
CONVERSATIONS
CANNESERIES offers a program increasingly geared toward Student audience, with conversations throughout the Festival.
Conversation with Roman Doduik and students in Arts et Métiers de l'Image from Université Côte d'Azur on the Meliès Campus.
Conversations with the BTS Communication students from Lycée Bristol, the Aix Film Lab, and the team of the series Avant qu'on m'oublie, in Short Form Series Competition.
Conversation with the Sciences Po students and the team of the series The Deal With Iran, in the Docuseries Competition.
Conversation with the BTS Audiovisuel students from Lycée Carnot and the team of the series Deep.
THROUGHOUT THE YEAR
SERIES NIGHT
On March 3, 2026, at Espace Miramar, CANNESERIES and the MAPIC Master’s program organized, in partnership with the City of Cannes and Université Côte d’Azur, the third edition of “La Nuit des Séries” (Series Night). This free, festive event—highly appreciated by young audiences—celebrated the series Snowfall by John Singleton, Eric Amadio, and Dave Andron, with the screening of four episodes.
This evening, designed to extend the Festival experience throughout the year in Cannes, is part of an educational project carried out with Université Côte d’Azur and aims to strengthen students’ connection to the collective cinema experience.
SCREENINGS IN CORRECTIONAL FACILITIES
Since its inception, CANNESERIES has been committed to introducing the world of series to audiences with the least access to it. In 2023, an initial programme was carried out in several correctional facilities in partnership with Archipel des Lucioles. This year, Archipel des Lucioles, the Marseille Interregional Directorate of Prison Services (DISP), the Regional Directorate of Cultural Affairs (DRAC), and the Meyer Foundation are supporting the Festival in a new initiative running from May to September 2026.
The programme includes media literacy and screenwriting workshops held in five correctional facilities (Aix-Luynes, Borgo, Toulon, Grasse, and Salon-de-Provence) and is divided into two components:
“WATCH” component: Two half-day sessions devoted to screening a series and meeting one of the creative talents behind it.
“CREATE” component: Three half-day writing workshops, led by screenwriters from the Sud Region, some of whom are members of the AARSE, during which participants develop a 90-second to 2-minute pilot episode. All participating facilities work from the same initial story arena and series bible.
These five workshops will result in five pilot episode scripts—representing approximately ten minutes of content in total—which will then be produced by regional partner schools, ERACM and La CinéFabrique.
Finally, the five completed episodes will be screened for participants in the correctional facilities (and made available on their internal video channels where such systems exist) and will also be presented during a screening and discussion dedicated to the project at CANNESERIES 2027.
Participants will have the opportunity to discover how others interpreted the same story world and characters in similar or different ways, while also seeing how emerging film professionals brought their scripts to the screen.