France TV Distribution, the commercial arm of the French public broadcaster France Télévisions, is bringing to market at the London TV Screenings the costume drama-thriller “Sorority,” a tale of three women – a wet-nurse, a midwife and a grieving mother – pitched against a male-dominated world in a Paris of 1889.
Starring Lula Cotton-Frapier, seen in Dominik Moll’s “The Night of the 12th” which swept France’s 2023 César Awards, “Sorority” is written by Alexandra Echkenazi, a co-creator of the well-received TV series “Simon Coleman,” and a co-scribe on period romance “Rosalie,” selected for Cannes Festival’s Un Certain Regard section in 2023.
The six-part period series – a genre in which France Télévisions can excel, drawing on the craft category excellence of its domestic industry, one of the biggest in Europe – “Sorority” is directed by Savina Dellicour and Vania Leturcq, co-helmers of Belgian crime drama “Pandore” (2022-24).
Dellicour also directed two episodes of breakout Netflix 2023 hit “Who Is Erin Carter?” while Leturcq helmed “Next Year,” a Montreal World Film Festival Silver Zenith winner.
Distributed worldwide by France TV Distribution, “Sorority” turns on Rose who leaves her rural home to become a wet nurse for a bourgeois family in Paris. There, she meets Odette, a midwife, who warns her that she won’t be allowed to keep her own child with her. Rose finds a solution, however risky: passing off her baby as that of Hélène de Gersande, a mother grieving the sudden loss of her infant.
“Rose, Odette and Hélène – three women from very different backgrounds – will have to join forces to carve out a place for themselves in a male-dominated world, and claim their freedom,” the synopsis runs.
“Sorority “ stars a large cast led by Cotton-Frapier, Barbara Probst, Jonathan Zaccaï, David Kammenos, Cécile Rebboah, Olivia Côte. It also takes in Alexia Giordano, Lauréna Thellier, David Talbot, Ralph Amoussou, Baptiste Carrion-Weiss, Younès Boucif, Anne Coesens.
It is produced by Lincoln TV for France TV. France Télévisions, La Compagnie Cinématographique and Panache Productions co-produce.