Camerimage reveal this year’s TV series competition lineup

Camerimage present this year’s lineup for the TV Series Competition at the 32nd edition of the EnergaCAMERIMAGE International Film Festival.

BABY REINDEER

Based on the award-winning one-man play that became a hit at Edinburgh Festival Fringe, Baby Reindeer follows struggling comedian Donny Dunn’s warped relationship with his female stalker and the impact it has on him as he is ultimately forced to face a deeply buried trauma. This compelling, darkly funny drama stars Richard Gadd, Jessica Gunning, Nava Mau and Tom Goodman-Hill.

Director: Weronika Tofilska
Cinematographer: Krzysztof Trojnar
Production: Clerkenwell Films
Country and year: UK, 2024

BECOMING KARL LAGERFELD: MERCENAIRE DU PRÊT-À-PORTER

Becoming Karl Lagerfeld plunges us into the heart of the 70s, in Paris, Monaco and Rome, to follow the formidable blossoming of this complex and iconic personality of Parisian couture, already driven by the ambition to become the Emperor of Fashion. In 1972, Karl Lagerfeld is 38 and not yet wearing his iconic hairstyle. He is a ready-to-wear designer, unknown to the general public. While he meets and falls in love with the sultry Jacques de Bascher, an ambitious and troubling young dandy, the most mysterious of fashion designers dares to take on his friend (and rival) Yves Saint Laurent, a genius of haute couture backed by the redoubtable businessman Pierre Bergé. Between glamour and clashes of egos, grandiose parties and destructive passions, discover the story of Karl before Lagerfeld.

Director: Jérôme Salle
Cinematographer: Mélodie Preel
Production: Disney+
Country and year: France, 2024

BOY SWALLOWS UNIVERSE: BOY SMELLS RAT

An epic coming-of-age story set in 1980s Brisbane that blends the magic and innocence of youth with the brutal reality of the adult world. A lost father, a mute brother, a recovering addict mum, a heroin dealer for a stepfather, and a notorious criminal for a babysitter. Eli Bell is just trying to follow his heart and understand what it means to become a good man, but fate keeps throwing obstacles in his way. Adapted from Trent Dalton’s iconic Australian novel, Boy Swallows Universe explores the crossroads where a boy becomes a man, good toys with evil, and the everyday meets the extraordinary.

Director: Bharat Nalluri
Cinematographer: Shelley Farthing-Dawe
Production: Brouhaha Entertainment
Country and year: Australia, 2024

FALLOUT: THE END

Based on one of the greatest video game series of all time, Fallout is the story of haves and have-nots in a world in which there’s almost nothing left to have. Two-hundred years after the apocalypse, the gentle denizens of luxury fallout shelters are forced to return to the irradiated hellscape their ancestors left behind—and are shocked to discover an incredibly complex, gleefully weird, and highly violent universe waiting for them. Lucy is an optimistic Vault-dweller with an all-American can-do spirit. Her peaceful and idealistic nature is tested when she is forced to the surface to rescue her father. Maximus is a young soldier who rises to the rank of squire in the militaristic faction called Brotherhood of Steel. He will do anything to further the Brotherhood’s goals of bringing law and order to the wasteland. The Ghoul is a morally ambiguous bounty hunter who holds within him a 200-year history of the post-nuclear hell on earth. These disparate parties collide when chasing an artefact from an enigmatic researcher that has the potential to radically change the power dynamics in this world.

Director: Jonathan Nolan
Cinematographer: Stuart Dryburgh
Production: Amazon Studios
Country and year: USA, 2024

HERRHAUSEN – THE BANKER AND THE BOMB: THE LORD OF MONEY

Despite a growing number of enemies and a target on his back, CEO of Deutsche Bank, Alfred Herrhausen has a vision to provide debt relief to the world’s poorest countries and broker a government-backed billion-dollar loan to the nearly bankrupt Soviet Union. By helping Gorbatchov, Chancellor Kohl pursues the plan to bring the wall down. Herrhausen wants to open up new markets with NATOs biggest enemy. With the CIA, KGB, East Berlin and the RAF all watching his every move, the clock is ticking towards the banker’s own tragic downfall.

Tytuł oryginalny: Herrhausen: Der Herr des Geldes
Director: Pia Strietmann
Cinematographer: Florian Emmerich
Production: Beside, Sperl Film, X Filme Creative Pool
Country and year: Germany, Belgium, 2023

A MURDER AT THE END OF THE WORLD: HOMME FATAL

A Murder at the End of the World is a mystery series with a new kind of detective at the helm – a Gen Z amateur sleuth and tech-savvy hacker named Darby Hart. Darby and eight other guests are invited by a reclusive billionaire to participate in a retreat at a remote and dazzling location. When one of the other guests is found dead, Darby must use all of her skills to prove it was murder against a tide of competing interests and before the killer takes another life.

Director: Brit Marling
Cinematographer: Charlotte Bruus Christensen
Production: FX Productions
Country and year: USA, 2023

THE PENGUIN: AFTER HOURS

Emboldened by the death of crime boss Carmine Falcone and a post-flood crime wave, Oz moves to fill the power vacuum left in Gotham City’s criminal underworld and finds a potential first recruit in the young Victor Aguilar. Meanwhile, Sofia Falcone and her brother Alberto seek to keep their family aligned.

Director: Craig Zobel
Cinematographer: Darran Tiernan
Production: 6th & Idaho Productions, DC Entertainment, Dylan Clark Productions, Warner Bros. Television
Country and year: USA, 2024

RIPLEY: A HARD MAN TO FIND

Tom Ripley, a grifter scraping by in early 1960s New York, is hired by a wealthy man to travel to Italy to try to convince his vagabond son to return home. Tom’s acceptance of the job is the first step into a complex life of deceit, fraud and murder. The limited series drama is based on Patricia Highsmith’s bestselling Tom Ripley novels.

Director: Steven Zaillian
Cinematographer: Robert Elswit
Production: Diogenes Verlag
Country and year: USA, 2024

SHŌGUN: ANJIN

Shōgun, an original adaptation of James Clavell’s bestselling novel, is an epic saga set in Japan in the year 1600, at the dawn of a century-defining civil war. Lord Yoshi Toranaga is fighting for his life as his enemies on the Council of Regents unite against him. When a mysterious European ship is found marooned in a nearby fishing village, its English pilot, John Blackthorne, comes bearing secrets that could help Toranaga tip the scales of power. Their fates become inextricably tied to their Japanese translator, Mariko, a mysterious Christian noblewoman and the last of a disgraced samurai family. While serving her lord amidst this fraught political landscape, Mariko must reconcile her newfound companionship with Blackthorne, her commitment to the faith that saved her, and her duty to her late father.

Director: Jonathan van Tulleken
Cinematographer: Christopher Ross
Production: DNA Films
Country and year: USA, 2024

SUGAR: OLIVIA

Sugar is a contemporary, unique take on one of the most popular and significant genres in literary, motion picture and television history: the private detective story. John Sugar is an American private investigator on the heels of the mysterious disappearance of Olivia, the beloved granddaughter of legendary Hollywood producer Jonathan Siegel. As Sugar tries to determine what happened to Olivia, he will also unearth Siegel family secrets; some very recent, others long-buried.

Director: Fernando Meirelles
Cinematographer: César Charlone
Production: Apple Studios
Country and year: USA, 2024