Disney+ series “The Good Mothers” among the Berlinale 2023 lineup | News

by James · January 16, 2023

Italian crime drama The good mothers is among the seven titles selected for the Berlinale series (February 16-26).

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The Disney+ series is directed by Britain’s Julian Jarrold, whose credits include Kinky boots, Be Jane and Brideshead Revisedand the Italian filmmaker Elisa Amoruso. The good mothers is a British-Italian co-production and follows three women trying to bring down the Italian mafia.

The first two episodes of the six-part series are one of five series having their world premiere at the Berlinale.

These include the HBO Max series Spy/Master from Adina Sădeanu and Kirsten Peters who will also show the first two episodes. The Romanian-German co-production sees an East German spy caught between the CIA, Securitate, KGB and Stasi.

Other world premieres are India’s Roar about a policeman investigating the disappearance of several women in the neighborhood; Denmark’s Medium from actor Nikolaj Lie Kaas about a talent agent; and Norwegian satire The architect.

Berlinale Series Market

The festival also announced the ninth edition of the Berlinale Series Market which will take place 20-22. February at Potsdamer Platz.

It sees the third edition of the Berlinale Series Market Selects label, which showcases series with high market potential. Among the 16 titles that have been selected is Norwegian sci-fi Dome 16 by Thomas Torjussen; German crime drama Two sides of the abyss from HBO Max and Israeli thriller Traitor from the creators of the HBO series Valley of Tears.

21.-22. On February 1, the Berlinale Co-production Market will host the Co-pro Series where producers from ten series projects will meet and pitch to 420 co-producers, editors, sales agents and other series financiers.

The selected projects were selected from 218 submissions.

Berlinale Series 2023

*world premiere

Medium* (The) cre. Nikolaj Lie Kaas, broad. TV2 – 2/8 episodes

The architect* (Nor), dir. Kerren Lumer-Klabbers, wide. Viaplay Group – 4/4 episodes

Bad behavior (Australia), Dir. Corrie Chen, wid. Stan – 2/4 episodes

Roar* (Ind), cres. Reema Kagti, Zoya Akhtar – 2/8 episodes

The good mothers* (UK-It), dir. Julian Jarrold, Elisa Amoruso, wid. Disney+ – 2/6 episodes

Spy/Master* (Rome-Ger), cres. Adina Sădeanu, Kirsten Peters, broad. HBO Max, Warner – 2/6 episodes

Why try to change me now (China), cre. Yu Gong, broad. iQIYI, Inc – 2/6 episodes

Berlinale Series Market 2023

1985 (Bel), cre. Willem Wallyn, wid. VRT, RTB

About Antoine (Canada), cre. Cathleen Rouleau, wid. Club illico, TVA (Quebecor)

The ark (USA-Serbia), cres. Dean Devlin, Jonathan Glassner, wid. NBCUniversal

brown (Ind), cres. Suri Gopalan, Abheek Barua

Cuba Libre (Gate), kre. Henrique Oliveira, wide. RTP

Donkerbos (S Afr), cre. Nico Scheepers, wide. Multichoice/Showmax

Out of touch (Sweden), cre. Mikael Ljung, broad. C More

Dome 16 (Nor), kre. Thomas Seeberg Torjussen, broad. NRK

Nordland 99 (The), kre. Kasper Møller Fast, wide. DR

Pad (the case) (Serbia), dir. Bojan Vuletić, wide. Superstar TV

Curse poem (Chil), cres. Paula del Fierro, Enrique Videla, Miguel Angel Rodríguez

Snow (Austria-German), cre. Michaela Taschek, broad. ORF, BR, NDR, ARTE

Traitor (Israel), cre. Asaph Polonsky, wid. HOT

The troll farm (Lithuania), cres. Domantė Urmonaitė, Martynas Mendelis, Gabija Siurbytė, Ernestas Jankauskas, broad. Lithuanian national television and radio, TeliaPlay+

The way home (US-Can), cres. Marly Reed, Heather Conkie, Alexandra Clarke, wid. Hallmark Channel

Two sides of the abyss (gives), kre. Kristin Derfler, broad. RTL+, Warner TV series, HBOmax