Editions come and go and records are coming thick and fast for the Series Mania Festival, which closed having attracted over 108,000 participants on the festival side (10,000 more than last year) and 5,000 attendees (up 20%) from 75 countries at the professional Forum sidebar, and which has now unveiled its winners, following the example of Buyers’ Upfront (news), the Co-Pro Pitching Sessions (news) and SERIESMAKERS (article).

Spain has confirmed its locomotive status in the series world, with the International Competition’s Grand Prize awarded to Querer [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
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Presided over by Pamela Adlon (and further composed of Victor Le Masne, Ignacio Serricchio, Minkie Spiro and Karin Viard), the International Competition jury awarded its Best Actor prize to Italian talent Luca Marinelli for his performance in Mussolini: Son of the Century [+lee también:
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Equally noteworthy in the International Panorama line-up was the Special Mention won by Belgian series Putain [+lee también:
entrevista: Frederik Daem y Deben Van …
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The winners are as follows:

International Competition

Grand Prize
Querer [+lee también:
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entrevista: Alauda Ruiz de Azúa
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Best Screenplay
Moshe Zonder and Ronit Weiss Berkowitz - The German (Israel/USA - Yes TV)
Special Mention
Jean-Stéphane Bron, Alice Winocour, Eugène Riousse, Stéphane Mitchell, Valentine Monteil and Julien-Guilhem Lacombe - The Deal [+lee también:
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Best Actress
Lili Reinhart - Hal & Harper (USA)

Best Actor
Luca Marinelli - Mussolini: Son of the Century [+lee también:
entrevista: Joe Wright
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International Panorama

Best Series
Celeste [+lee también:
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entrevista: Diego San José
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Special Mention
Putain [+lee también:
entrevista: Frederik Daem y Deben Van …
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Best Director
Ida Panahandeh - At The End Of The Night (Iran - Filmnet)

Best Actress
Carmen Machi - Celeste

Best Actor
Matthew Gurney - Reunion (UK - BBC)

Student Prize
Requiem For Selina (Noway – NRK)

French Competition

Best Series
37 Seconds (Arte)

Best Actress
Elsa Guedj - Reformed (Max)

Best Actor
Arthur Dupont - The Rose Family (Ciné+/OCS)

Best Original Music
Anthony D'Amario and Edouard Rigaudière - Log-out (France/Switzerland - TF1, RTS)

Audience Award
Empathy (Canada - Crave)

Short Format Competition

Best Series
One Of Us Is Trembling (Denmark)

High Schoolers’ Award
Wingspan (Germany)