Monte-Carlo TV Festival: a 64th edition rich on all levels

We can imagine the organizers of the 64th Monte-Carlo Television Festival, which will be held at the Grimaldi Forum from June 13 to 17, saying aloud to themselves upon looking at the official schedule: "We are rich." It's hard to prove them wrong since the expected stars command respect. How can we talk about this edition without forgetting Robin Wright, star of House of Cards but also an actress with an impressive filmography, from Santa Barbara to Forrest Gump via Blade Runner 2049 , since the 59-year-old actress will receive a Crystal Nymph at the closing ceremony. An award that will also be presented to Pierre Arditi, a French actor who needs no introduction, for his sixty-year career.

Finally, the last award was given to the young American actress Jaz Sinclair, 30 years old, and star of the series derived from the universe of The Boys , Gen V. The Dallas native will receive the Golden Nymph for Most Promising International Actress, succeeding Simone Ashley.

France Télévisions in the spotlight

But the stars will also be present within the juries since Judith Light ( Who's the Boss ) will chair the fiction jury while the producer and television woman Mireille Dumas will occupy the same position for the documentary part. A free festival and accessible to all, Monte-Carlo has moved upmarket this year with a huge line-up of French-speaking and international stars. France Télévisions will be in the spotlight with many fictions from the public service group highlighted and a nice cast present on site for signing sessions or moments with fans. We are thinking of Gil Alma ( César Wagner ), Bernard Yerle ( Alexandre Ehle ), Éléonore Bernheim and Nicolas Gob ( L'Art du crime ), Michèle Bernier ( La stagiaire ), Sara Mortensen ( Astrid et Raphaëlle ) or Alexandre Varga ( Cassandre ) as well as a moment around the daily Un si grand soleil .

M6 will also be there in force with members of its flagship series such as En famille and Scènes de ménage but especially with certain talents from its next daily, Nouveau jour, when TF1 will offer meetings around Demain nous appartient. Fans of foreign talent will be sensitive to the presence of Antonio Fargas, immense Huggy-les-bons-tuyaux in Starsky and Hutch , but also Famke Jansen, and talents from Teen Wolf, NCIS: Origins, The Bold and the Beautiful, The Young and the Restless or Chicago Fire . And the competition?

The Festival awards eleven prizes (six Nymphes for fiction, three for the Documentary and Current Affairs category and two for the digital category, a new feature). Even if the Monte-Carlo TV Festival aims to be less of a "discoverer" of series than its counterparts in Lille and Cannes, the 2025 fiction program is quite enticing with nine series in the running, including On a day in September , which looks back at the crucial and delicate meeting between General de Gaulle, played by Jean-Yves Berteloot, and German Chancellor Konrad Adenauer. The bombing of Pan Am 103 is another curiosity, a British series that focuses on the investigations conducted by the American and British governments into the bombing of Pan Am flight 103 after the explosion over the town of Lockerbie in Scotland in 1988.