The actress Aina Clotet won this Wednesday the award for the best interpretation of the Canneseries festival for her work in the series ‘Això no és Suècia’, the only Spanish actress competing to win the award together with ‘Mejor Quemarse’.
“Thank you very, very much (…) getting this award is a dream” were the words – in French – with which the actress began her speech during the award ceremony.
She also mentioned – in English – that “an actress always needs a good script”, for which she proceeded to thank the work of those who, along with her, are the creators of the series, Valentina Viso and Daniel González.
Clotet (Barcelona, ??1982) went with other colleagues such as Marcel Borràs and Marc Clotet to the international premiere of the series last day 6 at the Grand Auditorium Louis Lumière in this southern French city.
‘Això no és Suècia’, the first original series of RTVE Play, explores, in the words of this interpreter, “with a lot of irony, drama and tension” the story of Mariana and Samuel, a young couple who moves to a neighborhood in the outskirts of Barcelona.
This Spanish production was in charge of opening the official section of this festival in which others such as the German ‘The Zweiflers’ also competed, which was proclaimed the winner of the night in the category of best series, best soundtrack and also obtained the high school students award.
Its plot, directed by David Hadda, tells the story of businessman Symcha Zweifler, who wants to sell his delicatessen business, but is confronted with his past in Frankfurt’s red light district.
Another of the winners, for best short series, was the co-production between Argentina and Spain ‘Mejor Quemarse’, by Sebastián Tornamira and Laura Grandinetti, which presents a group of friends who intend to make the wish list that another friend leaves them. in common after his death.
The best script was written by the Norwegian Christopher Pahle with ‘Dumbsday’, set in an apocalypse in which a virus gradually destroys the intelligence of humanity.
And the special prize for acting went to the Serbian-Hungarian cast of ‘Operation Sabre’, by Vladimir Tagi? and Goran Stankovi?, which in Belgrade in 2003 narrates the chaos in which Serbia found itself immersed after the assassination of Prime Minister Zoran Djindjic.
Outside of fiction, the award for best docuseries went to ‘DJ Mehdi: Made in France’, with which director Sebastián Tornamira recovers the story of the late DJ Mehdi, recognized for his contributions to French rap.
