Many Quebec series, including the moving Podz series About Antoine, will be part of the competition at the La Rochelle Fiction Festival. The event, which rewards French, French-speaking foreign and European works of fiction, celebrates its 25th anniversary this year.

One of the selected series, Symphonie pathétique, an “offbeat comedy with a ‘musical-absurd’ approach written and performed by Daphnée Côté-Hallé and Lysandre Ménard, has not even been broadcast in Quebec yet. She will air on Noovo later this fall.

Pathetic Symphony is part of the Foreign Short Formats section, as is the adaptation of Simon Boulerice’s novel into poems Géocaliser l’amour, as well as the ecological dystopia Vidanges.

About Antoine, which tells the story of a blended family around a child with multiple disabilities, is part of the Foreign Francophone Fictions section, as is Les bombes, a series written by Kim Lévesque-Lizotte, which talks about bodily diversity, dependence and solidarity.

The festival will be held in La Rochelle, France from September 12-17, with the awards ceremony taking place on the 16th.