Canneseries festival winners

Finnish drama Mister 8 and Germany’s The Allegation, took top honours at this year’s Canneseries TV festival.

The awards rounded out the five-day festival, which has been taking place at the same time as Mipcom.

There were no Aussie wins.

Best Series
“Mister 8,” (Teemu Nikki, Jani Pösö, Finland)

Best Short Form Series
“About Saturday,” (Liv Mari Ulla Mortensen, Norway)

Dior Grand Prize
“The Allegation,” (Daniel Geronimo Prochaska, Ferdinand von Shirach, Germany)

Best Performance
Pekka Strang (“Mister 8”)

Special Interpretation Prize
Nader Khademi, Ayaz Hussain, Jonas Strand Gravli, Arben Bala, Erika Strand Mamelund, Syeda Hina Zaidi, Kristin Grue (“Countrymen”)

Dior Revelation Prize
Malik Gervais-Aubourg (“Wipe Me Away”)

Best Screenplay
Ferdinand von Schirach (“The Allegation”)

Best Music
Giorgio Giampà (“Christian”)

High School Prize for Best Series
“Countrymen,” (Izer Aliu, Anne Bjørnstad, Norway)

Student Prize for Best Short Form Series
“Lockdown,” (Gilles Coulier, Maarten Moerkerke, Belgium)

Audience Award
“Awake,” ( Jelena Gavrilović, Uroš Tomić, Serbia)

Source: Variety