Canneseries kicked off this week in the French city and stars including Sandra Oh, Patrick Dempsey and Phoebe Waller-Bridge braved the wet and windy conditions to walk down the pink carpet.
Ten drama series played in competition at the event, which ran alongside Mip TV, and the organizers have now revealed the winners.
Israeli drama When Heroes Fly won the top award – Best Series. The drama, which was created by Omri Givon and stars Tomer Kapon, Michael Aloni and Moshe Ashkenzi, follows four friends, war veterans of a Special Forces unit, reuniting for one final mission: to find Yaeli, the former lover of one of them and sister of another. The thriller, which is from Israeli’s Keshet, is set in the Colombian jungle.
But there’s more
Adoption drama Miguel, for Israel’s Hot, picked up the Special Performance Prize,
I am not familiar with these awards (I am, of course familiar with the Cannes Film Festival, but that is a different beast) but an award is an award. And Israel winning them is bound to piss off the haters. That is reason enough to acknowledge them!
