The Good Mothers, Disney+’s hard-hitting mafia drama series, has won the first ever Berlinale Series Award. Forged in co-operation with Deadline, the award is the first of its kind for TV at a major film festival. Revealed as winner at the Berlin Zoo Palast, the Italian drama from Baghdad Central scribe Stephen Butchard tells the true story of how three courageous women inside the notorious Calabrian ‘Ndrangheta mafia worked with female prosecutor, Alessandra Cerreti, to bring down down a criminal empire. 

The Good Mothers is directed by Julian Jarrold and Elisa Amoruso and stars Gaia Girace, Valentina Bellè, Barbara Chichiarelli, Simona Distefano and Micaela Ramazzotti. Producers are House Productions and Wildside. It streams on Disney+ from April 5.