The first Danish Netflix original The Rain (Miso Film) is among six premium international series vying for Best returning drama series, alongside Killing Eve, Dark, Bosch, Gomorra and Succession. 

The first Swedish Netflix original Quicksand (FLX) is running for Best non-English drama, together with My Brilliant Friend, Narcos-Mexico, Das Boot, Dehli Crime and Deutschland86. 

Norwegian actor/creator Vidar Magnussen who plays six characters in NRK’s sci-fi/crime comedy Magnus (Viafilm) will compete in the Best individual performance in comedy/drama, against five top contenders including Ricky Gervais in After Life. 

Denmark’s Johannes Lassen, leading actor in the Danish hostage series Below the Surface 2 (SAM Productions) is nominated for Best individual performance in a drama, next to Jarred Harris (Chernobyl) among others.

Meanwhile five premium Nordic series selected among nearly 100 drama entries, will be pitched to potential co-financiers on December 3rd.

  • Beyond Nature (Finland) will be the first adult-oriented TV drama for Gutsy Animations, creators of the animated hit series Moominvalley. The six-part psycho-thriller is written and directed by Paavo Westerberg (Frozen Land, The Violin Player) from an idea by Katariina Souri. Gutsy Animations founder Marika Makaroff is producing. The series will reveal what happens to an individual when the mind shatters, our link to nature is severed and ego takes over. 
  • Ice (Denmark) produced by Frontier Film for Viaplay is an action drama set in Ilulissat, Greenland. When an old cold-war vet is wrongly accused of his friend’s mysterious murder, he launches an investigation together with his son and a young ice-core scientist to clear his name. However, the group quickly learns that much greater and more cynical powers are at work than they could ever imagine. 
  • Nokia (Finland) produced by Rabbit Films, tells of the celebrated mobile phone brand’s hectic expansion in the late 1980s/early 1990s, through the story of young lawyers Katarina Tammi and Aki Makkonen who fight for the destiny of their company with the help of gifted engineer Salminen. ‘
  • Signals (Iceland) produced by Sagafilm, is a crime drama in which police officer Magnea and her girlfriend, the journalist Salka, are both investigating cyber attacks from an unknown extremist group without being able to compare their information. Their daily life becomes difficult while society is on the brink of collapse. 
  • The Death of a Mermaid (Denmark) is produced by Mastiff Denmark. The crime thriller based on Rydahl & Kazinski's eponymous novel, is a bold reinvention of Hans Christian Andersen’s celebrated fairy-tale The Little Mermaid, set in Copenhagen’s underworld in 1834.

Highlights of the International Drama Summit include case studies of the Danish drama When the Dust Settles (DR) and the Finnish/Spanish crime series The Paradise (Yle/Mediapro), both supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond.