Serielizados Fest 2021

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Now in its 8th edition,  Serielizados Fest continues to premiere the best international series previously unreleased in Spain.

Tu Préfères (Would You Rather), a French miniseries from the ARTE network, will land at the Fest after being shown at Sundance in 2021. Also featured is the Australian drama The End, by the co-writer of Nine Perfect Strangers, Samantha Strauss, released in 2020 by Sky Atlantic. And the winner of the 2020 International Emmy, #martyisdead, will finally be seen here in Spain.

As is customary at the festival, some Nordic series will be debuted as well; two new Icelandic series arrive at Serielizados Fest. The first, Blackport (2021), which won the 2018 Berlinale CoPro Series pitch, tells the true story of corruption in the Icelandic fishing industry of the 1980s, the cod mafia. Blackport will be seen for the first time in Spain at Serielizados Fest just after its world premiere in Séries Mania, and before its arrival on Icelandic television.

The second, Journey (2020), starring two Nordic stars, Ólafur Darri Ólafsson (Trapped, The Minister) and Víkingur Kristjánsson (Trapped and The Valhalla Murders), is a dramatic series in which two middle-aged men, who have lost the course of their lives, address their innermost feelings on a road trip through the surprisingly diverse and mystical nature of the Icelandic Westfjords.

In the children’s section, the festival will screen Mironins (2021), an animated series starring three drops of paint—Ro, Blu and Low—that have escaped from one of Joan Miró’s paintings. Now that they have managed to get out of the dark and boring warehouse they were in, they can go live alongside the other works in the museum.

In the documentaries section, Serielizados sees the Spanish premiere of Sopranos Sessions (2020), a documentary that interviews face to face and exclusively the cast and creator of one of the best series of all time, and Louis Theroux: Shooting Joe Exotic (2021), an unpublished documentary distributed by BBC Studios where the director searches the tragicomic life of the Tiger King ten years after their first encounter.

As usual, Serielizados Fest Barcelona will concentrate most of its activities at the CCCB (Center for Contemporary Culture of Barcelona), CASA SEAT and Sala Phenomena with additional showings online via Filmin.

For more events check our online events calendar.