Section Focus: Great Britain 2020
White House Farm (GB, 2020)
The drama of the reconstruction of one of the most famous crimes in British history, the probable perpetrator of which is still in prison and denies his guilt. The six-part miniseries on the murder...
The Accident (GB, 2019)
The central character of the story, hairdresser Polly from a fictional Welsh town, is pictured by one of the most popular contemporary series faces of United Kingdom - Sarah Lancashire. The actress known from the Happy Valley series or the Kiri miniseries, presented last year at the Serial Killer festival, is once again the heroine of the working class uniting the local community, who has the courage to stand up for her in times of crisis....
Salisbury Poisonings (GB, 2020)
In March 2018, in the British town of Salisbury, which is known in its whole history only by the cathedral with a tall tower, two members of the Russian secret services tried to poison the former Russian double agent, Sergei Skripal, and his daughter, with the poison novichok. In addition to them, a policeman was poisoned by an unfortunate accident while searching Skripal's house, and later also a woman who got the perfume with the poison found in a trash can from her boyfriend....
The Nest (GB, 2020)
Emily has a husband with a profitable job, lives in a glass house on the coast and works at a local university. The only thing she can't have is a child. The eighteen-year-old Kaya, who grew up on...
GameFace (GB, 2017)
Marcella is an actress who did not get a job in the branch for years, but in the very first episode of the GameFace series she happens to get a much bigger task - to convince an unknown colleague not...
Back to life (GB, 2019)
Daisy Haggard is a comedic actress who we could also see this year in the sarcastic comedy Breeders with Martin Freeman. Back to Life is her authorial "sadcom", in which she plays the main character Miranda, returning home from prison after eighteen years. And because she wasn't serving her sentence for any petty theft, they weren't looking forward to her in her hometown....