A key event in the audiovisual industry calendar, the Series Mania Forum — the professional arm of the Series Mania Festival — brings together over 4,000 professionals from around the world each year in Lille to celebrate and explore the art of series creation. The 2025 edition will shine a spotlight on Belgian productions through presentations by Flanders Image and Wallonie-Bruxelles Images. It will be an opportunity to discover projects supported by screen.brussels, expected in 2025 and 2026. These projects all reflect the rich diversity of fiction series backed by the fund.
In parallel, Putain, a series supported by screen.brussels, will have its premiere at the Series Mania Festival as part of the International Panorama selection. The jury will award four prizes, in addition to a student jury prize.
This is not a murder mystery
This is Not a Murder Mystery is a surprising and colourful whodunit where the Brussels painter René Magritte, unknown at the time, turns out to be a brilliant detective after some of his artist friends fall victim to a mysterious murderer who uses their own famous surrealist works as murder weapons.
Roomies, saison 2
Bibi, 23, and Ama, 26, both graduates of interior design, have moved back in together. This time, they're living on the fifth floor of an old, vacant office building. They not only share a roof but also a huge void. Without the structure of school and with empty wallets, the roommates try to familiarise themselves and each other with so-called adulthood. Bibi and Ama solve the final question of series one—what now?—in several steps, rather than all at once.
Arcanes
Arcanes plunges into the heart of Gravines, a small industrial town in the 90s, marked by the closure of the MTLK factory, an economic and social pillar for generations. When Stella, a local teenager, disappears, Clémence Rosier, heiress and former factory manager, is reminded of the unsolved death of her son Benjamin two years earlier. Convinced that the two events are linked, Clémence must join forces with Antonio D’Ambrosio, a worker suspected in her son’s death and holder of a mysterious book written by the two missing children. Together, they decode the book’s secrets, which will upset the families and the fragile balance of the town. In their quest for the truth, they must confront their prejudices, the weight of the past and a danger still lurking in the shadows.
Ethernel
Thanks to a chance scientific experiment, the dead can now communicate with the living using a terminal called the ETHERNA. David Novack, a former police officer haunted by the death of his wife, works in a new division, the Talkers, responsible for taking the statements of post-mortem victims. A routine investigation will change his perspective forever, leading him to revisit his past and reveal his darkest secrets.
Putain
When Gigi discovers that his mother Anaïs is once again dating her ex Fabrice, with whom she shared not only love but also a drug addiction in the past, he presents her with an ultimatum: her son or her lover.