Festival 2018

Is this the end? American Horror Story" brings back the Antichrist from the first season and lets him meet the witches from the "Coven". A series crossover of the particularly apocalyptic kind.

Here we go to the very foundation of Swiss prosperity: with a production that plunges us deep into the hermetically sealed local banking system and lets "bad banks" thrill meet family tragedy.

"Girls" creator Lena Dunham sends Jennifer Garner, David Tennant ("Doctor Who") and Juliette Lewis, among others, on a painfully funny camping trip.

A "fish out of water" has to get to know everyday police life "the hard way": Jerry O'Connell bumps into "The Gate to an Alien Dimension" as the star of a Hollywood crime series: Real Police Work.

The disastrous affair of a university professor with her student becomes a gripping psychological thriller in the hands of the "Liars" makers.

A German film legend resurfaces: With "Das Boot," the international co-production realized for Sky picks up where the Petersen classics left off and delivers great series cinema with star appeal.

A pretty "Cinderella" story is hidden behind the "Das Rezept zur großen Liebe", which follows the young Mehek in ...

The love story of King Rana after the end of the Second World War.

Beam us up, Schotty! For the seventh time, crime scene cleaner Heiko Schotte philosophizes about death, life and all the rest. Enlightenment not excluded!

"Stromberg" meets "Parks & Recreation" and "Baron Noir" when a German department head has to deal with the quirks of French local politics. And this sets new standards not only in terms of Franco-German coproduction (and friendship).

Without Jean Reno and Vincent Cassell, but with everything that made "The Purple Rivers" exceptional thriller cinema: Jean-Christophe Grangé's bestselling series is now making series history.

To keep his head above water, a broke actor has to take on dubious roles in real life, too, in an absolute world premiere at Seriencamp.

Between "Gomorrah" and "The Godfather," there's still a Spanish spot open: "Gigantes" is a mafia series devoted to Madrid's criminal underworld, while at the same time fascinating as a Shakespearean reminiscence of brotherly love-hate relationships.

"Game of Thrones" without dragons, but with the historically authenticated "Anonymous" icon Guy Fawkes and a star-studded cast around Kit Harington (Jon Snow). Sensitive minds should be warned!

Between "Mr. Robot" and "Deutschland 83": With their first international co-production, TNT Serie and HBO Europe deliver fascinating insights into the world of globally operating hacker communities.

"Infernal Affairs" in a British counterterrorism haze: executive producer Sam Mendes ("James Bond 007: Skyfall") raises the stakes when he has character face Paddy Considine become a handler for an unwilling undercover agent.

A sad clown directed by a sad clown: Jim Carrey shines in Michel Gondry's first foray into the wonderful world of serials. Imaginative, tragicomic, and absolutely unusual!

A whole squad of top Spanish stars populate the dystopian zone with which the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers put Spain on the international series map and deliver gripping thriller fare between neo-Western and science fiction.

A special place for a special (superhero) series: our Seriencamp PFLICHTPROGRAMM highlights one of the most exciting serial casts in recent years with Noah Hawley's ("Fargo") "Legion."

"Under the surface, we are all connected": Filmmaker Hervé Cohen invites us on a fascinating interactive journey through the world's subways.

Fact and (science) fiction form a fascinating combination in the second season of this lavishly staged docu-fiction: Astrophysics and urgent questions about the future to experience firsthand!

A young Latino takes on the legacy of "Sons Of Anarchy" and adds fascinating facets to showrunner Kurt Sutter's Shakespeare-inspired biker universe.

A city full of supernatural creatures fighting against the "normal" outside world: "True Blood" fans can already lick blood in Charlaine Harris' new series universe...

Once again, an Israeli hit series acts as the idea generator, this time for the new VOX in-house production that replaces the "Club der roten Bänder" with a group of provincial East German gigolos.

Three autistic people, a shared apartment and a daily struggle with the challenges of the "normal" world: series wonderland Israel thrills us - unsurprisingly - with the next series gem.

A blind date in real time turns us into voyeurs in this Norwegian hit series, whose formal rigor gets its entertaining counterbalance in the ups and downs of just one night.

Razia Sultan is the first and only ruler of the Delhi Sultanate. We accompany her in the fight against intrigues in typical Bollywood style.

Sundance winner Desiree Akhavan follows in the footsteps of Phoebe Waller-Bridge ("Fleabag"), taking us on a debunking, hilarious and truthful trip through London as she loses her sexual orientation.

"Total Control - Under the Spell of the Soul Catchers" will celebrate its TV world premiere as part of the theme week "Twisted Faith - Power and Manipulation" on November 19, 2018 at 9 p.m. exclusively on A&E.

Who would have thought it: Once again, series wonderland Belgium surprises with a black-humored crime highlight, this time bringing a "Breaking Bad" feeling to the Limburg province.

A mismatched Belgian investigator duo under the spell of cybercrime, which continues to gain in importance: the usual high-class world of Franco-Belgian crime series gets a new subuniverse with "Unit 42".

It's once through Colombian hell and back for four former members of a special forces unit whose action-packed rescue operation rightly earned the Israeli hit series the "Best Series Award" in Cannes.