Barcelona’s Serielizados festival selected Hagai Levi’s Etty as its best international series and Killing a Bear as its national winner. The awards also recognised screenplay and acting across both competitions. Etty adapts Etty Hillesum’s diaries, while Killing a Bear follows the killing of a bear in the Pyrenees through several perspectives.
Hagai Levi’s Etty won best international series at Serielizados Fest, the television-series festival in Barcelona, Spain. Killing a Bear, by Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo, won the national competition at the festival’s 13th edition.[1], [2]
Both winners have six episodes. Etty is a French, Dutch and German coproduction adapting the diaries of Dutch Jewish writer Etty Hillesum. It follows its 27-year-old protagonist in Nazi-occupied Amsterdam.[1]
Killing a Bear approaches the killing of a bear in the Val d’Arán, in Spain’s Pyrenees, through several characters’ perspectives. The Kubik Films production for Movistar Plus has a Spanish launch scheduled for 1 December. In the international competition, Benjamin Charbit and Dominique Baumard’s French comedy Camarades won screenplay. Diane Morgan won performance for playing the second-hand robot Linda in Ann Droid.[1]
Segunda Temporada won national screenplay for Miguel Ángel Blanca, Berta Prieto and Víctor Diago. Carmen Machi took the acting prize for tax inspector Sara Santano in Celeste’s second season. In Vitro received a special mention. The Barcelona programme continues until 28 October, with an online edition on the Filmin streaming service scheduled for 10–22 November.[1]
