# Transfers (2017)

> After five years in a coma, Florian has his mind transferred into another man's body and must hide his identity while serving in an anti-transfer police unit.

Canonical page: https://ember.film/tv/65169

## Facts

- Seasons: 1
- Episodes: 6
- Episode runtime: 55 min
- Status: Ended
- Genres: science fiction, thriller
- Created by: Patrick Bénédek, Claude Scasso
- Network: ARTE
- Cast: Arieh Worthalter, Brune Renault, Toinette Laquière, Steve Tientcheu, Balthazar Monfé, Aïssatou Diop, Sébastien Chassagne, Pili Groyne
- TMDB rating: 7.2/10
- IMDb: https://www.imdb.com/title/tt6531888/

## Ember's analysis

- Pacing: measured
- Intensity: strong
- Complexity: layered
- Violence: moderate
- Tone: paranoid, cold, tense, melancholic, austere

## Synopsis

Transfers is a French-Belgian scripted science fiction thriller created by Patrick Bénédek and Claude Scasso for ARTE. Across a single six-episode season, the series follows Florian, who wakes from five years of coma to find his mind moved into another man's body, Sylvain, played by Arieh Worthalter. Now he must conceal who he really is while working as an officer in BATI, the unit that hunts illegal transfers. Brune Renault plays Béatrice, Toinette Laquière plays Sophie, and Steve Tientcheu plays Gabriel, each entangled with his double life. The engine is simple and tense: every day Florian risks exposure while investigating the very practice that made him, and each episode brings a new pressure on his hidden identity. Set in a near future of surveillance and bodily commodification, the show has a cold, austere palette and a paranoid, dread-filled atmosphere. Fans of Black Mirror, Altered Carbon and Dark Matter will find resonance in its questions about selfhood, memory and what remains of a person when the body changes hands. It is a compact, serious limited series with a mature, unsettling edge.

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