2021 TV Drama Shortlist

21 aprile 2021 ore 16:14
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DENMARK    DR

Ulven Kommer
(Cry Wolf)

14-year-old Holly has written a school essay in which she accuses her stepfather of physical abuse. Social worker, Lars Madsen, receives a report from the school and decides to act quickly. In the space of a few hours he succeeds in placing the girl and her younger brother in emergency foster care. Holly's parents flat-out deny Holly's accusations and are appalled by the council's handling of the case. The question is whether Lars can work out who in the family is lying and who is telling the truth, and in so doing uncover the family's secret.

FINLAND    YLE

Pala sydamesta
(Piece of My Heart)

Rita and Laura, two childcare workers in the Helsinki area are trying to make life better for children in distress. Along the way, Rita is bound to face the dark memories of her own childhood, while Laura is trying to balance her demanding job with family life. They work under extreme pressure, in situations where one wrong decision can lead to immediate catastrophe. Each episode deals with a different childcare unit case, but the landscape for the whole series is set in Rita's attempt to solve the case of one missing child, Elli. In order to find out what really happened to Elli, Rita is forced to dive deeper into her own consciousness.

FRANCE    ARTE FRANCE

Dérapages
(Inhuman Resources)

Alain Delambre is a senior executive worn out and humiliated by six years of unemployment. When a prestigious company selects him as a candidate, he is prepared to betray his wife, steal from his daughters and hit his son-in- law. He even takes part in a role-playing game in the form of a hostage-taking scenario, convinced that, if he is hired, all will be forgiven. But sometimes, things don't go as planned….

GERMANY    ZDF

The Windermere Children

A summer's night in 1945. A coachload of children is in transit to the Calgarth Estate in Lake Windermere. They are child survivors of the Nazi Holocaust that has all but wiped out Europe's Jews and, for these particular children, their entire families too. They carry only the clothes they wear and a few meagre possessions, along with the physical and psychological scars of all they have suffered. But the children are also excited, for the war is over and there is always hope that the future will be kinder to them than the past. The British government granted up to 1000 children a refuge, a place to rehabilitate and grow strong again. 300 of these children were brought to live in Lake Windermere for four months, and for many of them came the hope that the UK might become their future home.

SWITZERLAND    SRG SSR

Cellule de crise
(Crisis Unit)

Newly elected president of one of the largest humanitarian organisations in the world, Suzanne Fontana's diplomatic skills and humanitarian values are put to the test when a young delegate and a dozen employees of the organisation are kidnapped in Yemen. Crisis Unit dives into a treacherous world of manipulation and pretense, where she will have to get her hands dirty, forge dubious alliances and challenge everything she believed in to bring the hostages back alive.

UNITED KINGDOM    CH4

It's A Sin - Episode 1

September 1981, and Soft Cell are Number One. 18-year-old Ritchie Tozer is leaving the Isle of Wight to go to university. In London, Roscoe Babatunde walks out of home after his parents make a shocking discovery. And Colin Morris-Jones arrives from Wales, to start a new career on Savile Row. The three boys meet, and life will never be the same again. As the year unfolds, the boys - along with fellow student Ash, and their best friend Jill - form a gang and move into a flat, christened the Pink Palace. And there, they start to become who they truly are. But a distant threat on the horizon means that life in the 80s might be all too precious.

PAN-EUROPEAN BROADCASTERS    HBO-E

Patria

The day ETA announces a ceasefire, Bittori visits the cemetery where her husband Txato, who was murdered by the terrorists, is buried. Will forgiveness be possible in a community shattered by political fanaticism?

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