The 68th Berlin International Film Festival (15-25 February) has announced the selection for its Berlinale Series section. Highly successful since its introduction in 2015, when it was born as the Berlinale Special Series programme, the section will now run under the new name (Berlinale Series) and move to a new venue, Zoo Palast, from the 2018 festival onwards. In 2015, the Berlinale was the first category-A festival worldwide to create an individual special programme for series within the official programme. Since then, acclaimed titles such as Better Call Saul, The Night Manager, False Flag and 4 Blocks have celebrated their world or international premieres in Berlin.

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This year's edition features long-awaited series such as Germany's Bad Banks (directed by Christian Schwochow, recently in the cinemas with Paula [+lire aussi :
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Here is the list of works screening in Berlinale Series:

Bad Banks (Germany/Luxembourg)
Director: Christian Schwochow / head writer: Oliver Kienle
Broadcaster: ZDF, ARTE

Home Ground (Norway)
Creator: Johan Fasting / director: Arild Andresen
Broadcaster: NRK

Liberty (Denmark)
Creator: Asger Leth / director: Mikael Marcimain
Broadcaster: DR

The Looming Tower (USA)
Creators: Dan Futterman, Alex Gibney, Lawrence Wright / director: Alex Gibney / writer: Dan Futterman
Broadcaster: Amazon, Hulu (USA)

Picnic at Hanging Rock (Australia) (episodes 1-3)
Director: Larysa Kondracki / writers: Beatrix Christian, Alice Addison
Broadcaster: Foxtel

Sleeping Bears (Israel)
Creator and director: Keren Margalit
Broadcaster: Keshet Broadcasting

The Terror (USA) (episodes 1-3)
Showrunners: David Kajganich, Soo Hugh
Director: Edward Berger
Broadcaster: AMC, AMC Networks International, Amazon World premiere