DAY ONE: ESCAPING UKRAINE

(Sentinelles-Ukraine)

TELEVISION COMPETITION
MELVILLE THEATRE
Series, Drama / War, Episodes 1& 2

WEDNESDAY OCTOBER 30
8:00 pm (Screening ends at 9:25 pm)
FRIDAY NOVEMBER 1
1:10 pm (Screening ends at 2:35 pm)
SATURDAY NOVEMBER 2
11:00 am (Screening ends at 12:25 pm)
SUNDAY NOVEMBER 2
9:20 am (Screening ends at 10:45 am)

Presented in association with:
Federation Studios

Directed by: Jean-Philippe Amar
Created by: Frédéric Krivine, Thibault Valetoux
Written by: Frédéric Krivine, Thibault Valetoux
Produced by: Antoine Szymalka and Emmanuel Daucé (Tetra Media Fiction), StudioCanal
Cinematography: Stéphane Aupetit
Film Editing: Olga Penot, Raphaël Péaud
Original Score: Eric Neveux
Cast: Pauline Parigot, Louis Peres, Éric Caravaca, Yannick Choirat, Samy Seghir, Jonathan Turnbull, Antoine Pelletier, François Loriquet, Adèle Journeaux, Antonia Buresi, Jeanne Favre, Jérôme De Falloise, Louise Manteau
International Sales: StudioCanal
Original Broadcast: CINÉ+OCS

February 24, 2022. Lieutenant Anaïs Collet is on leave in a surrogacy clinic in Donbass, when Russia launches a military attack on Ukraine. She and her partner are suddenly trapped there, along with a group of other French couples. The Russian army is just a few kilometers away from the maternity hospital. They’re torn — should they stay and wait for the birth of their child, or make haste and flee?

Jean-Philippe Amar is an accomplished television director of the hit TV series Spiral (10 episodes, 2019-2020), Un village français (23 episodes, 2013-2017), Infiltré(e) (6 episodes, 2023), and the documentary series Les Nouveaux explorateurs (4 episodes, 2008-2014). He wrote and directed the series Sweet Dream (2009) and the TV movie Pilules bleues (COLCOA 2015). Co-showrunner Thibault Valetoux wrote the screenplay for the feature film Le Sens de la famille (2017), and has written scripts for various series, including Paris Police 1900 (COLCOA 2021), Totems (2020-2022) and Black Mambas (2021). Co-showrunner Frédéric Krivine has written scripts for numerous shorts, TV movies, and for the series Une belle histoire (2020) and Infiltré(e) (2023). He was previously showrunner on P.J. (94 episodes, 1997-2009) and Un village français (65 episodes, 2009-2017). All three also collaborated on the series Sentinelles-Mali (TAFFF 2022, Best Series Award).