CANNESERIES SPIN OFF

Since its creation, CANNESERIES has been committed to defending a vision of entertainment where audacity, diversity and inclusion are central. CANNESERIES claims to be a festival of its time, a place where every voice counts and where diversity is not a trend, but a necessity. Once again this year, we are stepping up our commitment within the Festival program and beyond its walls, celebrating the richness of plural narratives.

DURING THE FESTIVAL

SCHOOL SCREENINGS WITHIN THE PROGRAMMING

Since its first edition, entire days have been dedicated to school audiences, including middle and high school students, with screenings designed for them — and sometimes even by them. In partnership with the Académie de Nice, the Festival dedicates a portion of its school programming to CANNES MINI SÉRIES, a special session showcasing a web series created by high school students from the Académie de Nice, in support of tomorrow's generation of creators. This year, these budding talents will present their work on Thursday, April 24, from 9:15 to 10:30 a.m., and Friday, April 25, from 9:00 to 10:30 a.m., with Le Chant des séries — a dive into the oceanic world through their creative lens.

They will also have the opportunity to enjoy:

Bewitched: a screening of two episodes followed by a discussion – Thursday, April 24, from 10:55 a.m. to 12:15 p.m.
Maintenant ou jamais : FC Montfermeil: screening of two episodes followed by a discussion – Thursday, April 24, from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.
Conversation with Maïdi Roth: Thursday, April 24, 3:45 to 4:45 p.m.
Zonz: screening of the first two episodes followed by a discussion – Friday, April 25, from 10:40 a.m. to 12:00 p.m.

Throughout the Festival, the collaboration with Cannes Cinéma continues, as middle and high school classes attend various sessions and discussions, as well as screenings of the Competition in the Grand Auditorium Lumière.

TALKS & MEETINGS

CANNESERIES continues to expand its program geared toward young audiences, with meetings and screenings.

**MEETING BETWEEN THE TEAM OF LA VRAIE VIE AND STUDENTS FROM LYCÉE CARNOT’S BTS AUDIOVISUAL PROGRAM**

On Monday, April 28 at 3:15 p.m., after the screening, audiovisual BTS students from Lycée Carnot in Cannes will have the opportunity to meet with the team behind La Vraie Vie, a documentary series competing this season. A unique chance to explore the behind-the-scenes process and discuss the professions that shape audiovisual creation.

**MEETING BETWEEN L’ARCHIPEL DES LUCIOLES COORDINATION AND SCREENWRITING STUDENTS FROM KOURTRAJMÉ SCHOOL**

A meeting will be held on Saturday, April 26 at 5:30 p.m. at the Palais des Festivals et des Congrès. It will bring together the coordination team of L’Archipel des Lucioles and screenwriting students from Kourtrajmé. This dialogue will provide passionate young creatives, eager to enter the industry, with the opportunity to engage with students who followed an unconventional path and are now completing their screenwriting studies. The Archipel des Lucioles team will present series they have already created and gather insights from these emerging professionals.

MEETING WITH MAÏDI ROTH

On Friday, April 25, composer Maïdi Roth will host a special session with a dozen students from the MSC Music for Visual Media Scoring program. This intimate event is scheduled for 10:00 a.m. at the Méliès Campus - Université Nice Côte d’Azur.

**MEETING ABOUT FULGURÉE, QUAND LA FOUDRE NE TUE PAS AND BTS COMMUNICATION STUDENTS FROM LYCÉE BRISTOL**

On Tuesday, April 29 at 12:00 p.m., following the screening, students from the BTS Communication program at Lycée Bristol will meet with part of the documentary series team: Mickael Royer, Emilie Grall (director and screenwriter), Juliette Jean (screenwriter), and Julie Perris (producer).

THROUGHOUT THE YEAR

LA NUIT DES SÉRIES

On March 12, 2025, at Espace Miramar, CANNESERIES and the Impac Projet team, in partnership with the City of Cannes, Université Côte d’Azur, and CANAL+, organized the second edition of La Nuit des Séries. This free and festive event, greatly appreciated by young people, celebrated the cult series LE FLAMBEAU, LES AVENTURIERS DE CHUPACABRA by Jonathan Cohen — a CANAL+ Original Creation that closed Season 5 of CANNESERIES in 2022 — with screenings of the first six episodes, themed games, and activities.

This event, designed to keep the Festival alive all year round in Cannes, is part of an educational project with Université Côte d’Azur and aims to strengthen students’ connection with the collective experience of cinema.

SERIES IN PRISONS

Since its launch, CANNESERIES has been committed to opening the doors of the serial world to as many people as possible, through its screenings, meetings and encounters.

In 2022, the festival and l'Archipel des Lucioles set up a partnership with the Direction Interrégionale des Services Pénitentiaires to launch an operation to screen short French-language series in prisons for inmates and staff.

This operation took place in three prisons in the South of France: the Maison Centrale in Arles, the Maison d'Arrêt in Grasse and the Centre Pénitentiaire des Baumettes in Marseille. It consisted of screenings of the series Narvalo, season 2 and Rêves, followed by a time for discussion around image analysis, the world of series, and the creation of the series broadcast, accompanied by talents in front of and/or behind the camera. The success of this operation has given us the ambition to extend the program to more schools in the years to come.

UNIVERSITY INTERVENTIONS

Year after year, CANNESERIES pushes back the walls of the Festival with interventions in universities (Université Nice Côte d'Azur, Campus George Méliès in Cannes, Université la Sorbonne in Paris). They can come either from the Festival's artistic direction, to introduce the Festival and the world of series, or from talents brought directly to their establishments, for a privileged meeting time, like this year's meeting with Maïdi Roth, composer at Campus Georges Méliès, director Ovidie, who came to talk about her work at Campus Georges Méliès in 2024, director Philippe Falardeau, who came in 2023 with his documentary series Lac-Mégantic, and filmmaker Jean-Xavier de Lestrade, who came in 2022 with his series Jeux d'influence - Les Combattantes.