# 2020 Canneseries

The 3rd Cannes International Series Festival is a television festival that took place in Cannes, France. The festival was scheduled to be held on 27 March to 1 April but postponed to 9 to 14 October, due to COVID-19 pandemic-related concerns and was held in-person/virtual hybrid. American writer and director Darren Star served as the patron of the festival edition.
The Best Series of the Festival award went to the Swedish crime drama Partisan.

## Juries

The following juries were named for the festival.

### Competition

* Laëtitia Eïdo, French actress
* Grégory Fitoussi, French actor
* Randy Kerber, American composer
* Roxane Mesquida, French actress
* Caroline Proust, French actress and director
* Jean-Pascal Zadi, French actor and director

### Short Form Competition

* Jamie Bamber, British actor
* Timothée Hochet, French director and screenwriter
* Erin Moriarty, American actress

## Official selection
### In competition

The following series were selected to compete:
| Title | Original title | Creator(s) | Production countrie(s) | Network |
| 257 Reasons to Live | 257 prichin chtoby zhit | Alexey Lyapichev | Russia | Start, TNT |
| Atlantic Crossing | Atlantic Crossing | Alexander Eik | Norway | NRK1 |
| Cheyenne and Lola | Cheyenne et Lola | Virginie Brac | France, Belgium | OCS Max |
| Losing Alice | Le'abed et Alice | Sigal Avin | Israel | Hot 3, Apple TV+ |
| Man in Room 301 | Huone 301 | — | Finland | Elisa Viihde |
| Moloch | Moloch | Arnaud Malherbe | France | Arte |
| Partisan | Partisan | Amir Chamdin & Fares Fares & Mauricio Molinari | Sweden | Viaplay |
| Red Light | Red Light | Halina Reijn & Carice van Houten | Belgium, Netherlands | NPO 1, VTM |
| Top Dog | Top Dog | Jens Lapidus & Veronica Zacco | Sweden | ZDFneo, TV4 |
| Truth Seekers | Truth Seekers | Nick Frost & Simon Pegg & Nat Saunders & James Serafinowicz | United Kingdom | Amazon Prime Video |

### Short Form Competition

The following series were selected to compete:
| Title | Original title | Creator(s) | Production countrie(s) |
| Broder | Broder | Jonathan Barg & Mauro Pérez Quinteros & Andrés Sehinkman & Leandro Vital | Argentina |
| Christmas on Blood Mountain | Jul i Blodfjell | Lars Kristian Flemmen & Christopher Pahle & Martin Zimmer | Norway |
| Claire and the Elderly | Claire et les vieux | Patrick Bilodeau & Charles Grenier & Edith Morin & Sarah Pellerin | Canada |
| Cryptid | Cryptid | Daniel di Grado & Sylvain Runberg | Sweden |
| Deadhouse Dark | Deadhouse Dark | Enzo Tedeschi | Australia |
| Dog Days | Amours d'Occasion | Eva Kabuya | Canada |
| First Person | First Person | Renuka Jeyapalan & Tyler Levine & Patrice Theroux | Canada |
| Tony | Tony | Malena Filmus | Argentina |
| The Writers. A Short Series. | Pisarze. Serial na krótko. | Mikołaj Lizut | Poland |
| Zero Day | Zero Day | — | United States, France |

### Out of competition

The following series were screened out of competition:
| Title | Original title | Creator(s) | Production countrie(s) | Network |
| Call My Agent! (season 4) (closing series) | Dix pour cent | Fanny Herrero | France | France 2 |
| The Flame (opening series) | La Flamme | Florent Bernard & Jonathan Cohen & Jérémie Galan | France | Canal+ |
| #FREERAYSHAWN | #FREERAYSHAWN | Marc Maurino | United States | Quibi |
| OVNI(s) | OVNI(s) | Clémence Dargent & Martin Douaire | France | Canal+ |
| Shadowplay | Shadowplay | Måns Mårlind | France, Canada, Germany | ZDF, Viaplay, Canal+, Canal+ Poland, NPO 1 |

## Awards

The following awards were presented at the festival:
* Best Series: Partisan by Amir Chamdin, Fares Fares and Mauricio Molinari
* Best Screenplay: Arnaud Malherbe and Marion Festraëts for Moloch
* Best Music: Jon Ekstrand and Carl-Johan Sevedag for Top Dog
* Special Interpretation Prize: Red Light by Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten
* Best Performance: Polina Maksimova for 257 Reasons to Live
* Student Prize: Red Light by Halina Reijn and Carice van Houten
* Best Short Form Series: Broder by Jonathan Barg, Mauro Pérez Quinteros, Andrés Sehinkman and Leandro Vital
* Short Form Prize: Claire and the Elderly by Patrick Bilodeau, Charles Grenier, Edith Morin and Sarah Pellerin

### Special awards

The following honorary awards were presented at the festival:
* Variety Icon Award: Judith Light
* Madame Figaro Rising Star Award: Daisy Edgar-Jones
* Excellence Award: Patrick Dempsey
* Prix du Public: All the Way Up by Franck Gastambide