Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

The Selection 2025 will be announced in January 2025.

For the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market (17 to 21 February), 34 film projects from 27 countries were selected to find partners, in order to secure their financing and get produced as international co-productions in the next few years.

Official Feature Project Selection 2024

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • - The Side Effects of Trusting Life (director: Ahmad Ghossein), Abbout Productions, Lebanon
  • - A Woman Builds (directors: Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka), Akanga Film Asia, Singapur & YGP-Film, Japan & Island X Pictures, Taiwan
  • - Next Apparition (director: Julieta Amalric), Cimarrón Cine, Argentina/Uruguay
  • - My Hands (director: Eoin Heaney), Feline Films Limited, Ireland
  • - Screaming Girl (director: Antonio Lukich), ForeFilms, Ukraine
  • - To the Wedding (director: Andrea Pallaoro), Good Question Media, Canada
  • - Idda’s Breath (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni, Italy
  • - Divorce During the War (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania
  • - Last Trip (director: Ziad Kalthoum), Mayana Films, Germany
  • - Antonivka (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania
  • - Marriage by Abduction (director: Sophia Mocorrea), NiKo Film, Germany
  • - Ich bin Marika (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary
  • - To Die on Your Feet (director: María Paz González), Quijote Films, Chile
  • - Remains of Life (director: Sevda Shishmanova), Red Carpet, Bulgaria
  • - Folk Play (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia
  • - Fragments of This Beauty (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey
  • - Burnings (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Production, Sweden
  • - The Girl with the Leica (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • - Alma (director: Sally Potter), Adventure Pictures, United Kingdom & Sixteen Films, United Kingdom
  • - Twist the Rabbit (director: Mira Fornay), Cineart, Czech Republic & Mirafox, Slovak Republic
  • - Londoner (director: Babatunde Apalowo), Polymath Pictures, Nigeria, Cato Street Productions, United Kingdom &, and Sixteen Films, United Kingdom

"World Cinema Market" project:

  • - Zone |Myths (director: Daria Yurkevich), Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Germany

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • - The Diplomats (director: Andreas Fontana), Alina film, Switzerland
  • - Hold Time for Me (director: Fradique), Seera Films, Germany

"Talent Project Market":

  • - Eau de Colony (director: Veronica Spedicati), Alcor (producer: Giorgio Gucci), Italy
  • - So the Lovers Could Come Out Again (director: George Peter Barbari), Btrswt Pictures (producer: Christelle Younes), Lebanon
  • - Silence Sometimes (director: Álvaro Robles), Cartuna (producer: Mireia Vilanova), USA & Spain
  • - Bad Gays (director: Loïc Hobi), Cloud Fog Haze Pictures (producer: Michael Graf), Switzerland
  • - Pogana (director: David Kapac), Eclectica (producer: Rea Rajčić), Croatia
  • - The Numbered Days (director: Agustina San Martín), Mil Monos (producer: Maximiliano Monzon), Argentina & Spain
  • - Uptight Ass (director: Matija Gluščević), Naked (producer: Čarna Vučinić), Serbia
  • - Astana Internet Stars (director: Assel Aushakimova), Risk Pictures (producer: Assel Aushakimova), Kazakhstan
  • - More than a Hug (director: Christian Zetterberg), Snowcloud (producer: Liselotte Persson), Sweden
  • - Little Lying Wild (director: Samantha Aldana), Valerie Steinberg Productions (producer: Valerie Steinberg), USA & Belize

Company Matching Programme:

  • - Hobab, Sweden
  • - Momo Film Co, Singapore
  • - Paradise City, United Kingdom & France
  • - Special Touch Studios, France
  • - Ukbar Filmes, Portugal

"Co-Pro Series" Projects 2024

For the tenth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invited producers, editors, distributors and other series financiers to pitches and meetings at “Co-Pro Series” on February 20 and 21.

Ten new, selected drama series projects were pitched and met with co-production and financing partners here.

Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2024

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • - The Coroner's Assistant (creator/writer/director: Elina Psykou), Blonde, Greece
  • - The Palm Line (creators: Thomas Ritter (head-writer), Maria Rosselini, Mattia Lento; director: Fulvio Bernasconi), hugofilm features, Switzerland
  • - The Werewolf & Renée (creator/writer/director: Katrin Gebbe), Junafilm, Germany
  • - Wolves (writer/director: Sina Ataeian Dena), Ma.ja.de, Germany & Europe Media Nest, Czech Republic / Iran
  • - Death to Love (creator/writer/director: Carlota Pereda), Morena Films & Buendía Estudios, Spain
  • - Witness 36 (writers: Natacha Caravia, Juan Matías Carballo, Daniel Burman; director: Daniel Burman), Oficina Burman, Argentina
  • - The Man with the Crooked Arm (creator/head-writer/director: Perivi John Katjavivi), Old Location Films, Namibia
  • - Mirrors (creators: Amra Bakšić Čamo, Aida Begić; director: Aida Begić), SCCA/pro.ba, Bosnia and Herzegovina
  • - S.O.L. (creator: Ruth McCance; director: tba), Warp Films, United Kingdom & Rainy Days, Sweden

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania:

  • - Executioners (creators/writers: Rodrigo Martín Antoranz, Pedro García Ríos; director: tba), Vertice 360, Spain

"Books at Berlinale" 2024

On Sunday, February 18, 2024, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, once more presented 10 exceptional books particularly suitable for literary adaptation in "Books at Berlinale". At the live pitching event, which has been presenting new publications, bestsellers and award winners every year since 2006, film producers can get in touch with the film rights holders - renowned, internationally working publishers and literary agents.

The following literary works are selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2024:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • - “The Secret of Nox: Light, Shadow - Bat Rats! (vol. 1)” / „Das Geheimnis von Nox: Licht, Schatten – Flederratten! (Vol. 1)“ (author: Claudia Scharf, Germany), Carlsen Verlag, Germany
  • - “Me: In-Between” / „Dazwischen: Ich“ (author: Julya Rabinowich, Germany), Carl Hanser Verlag, Germany
  • - “White Clouds” / „Weiße Wolken“ (author: Yandé Seck, Germany), Copywrite Literatur- und Filmagentur, Germany
  • - “Cesare’s Story. Choosing Happiness with Your Eyes Closed” / „La storia di Cesare. Scegliere a occhi chiusi la felicità” (author: Valentina Mastroianni, Italy), DeAgostini libri, Italy
  • - “Dissident Club” (author: Taha Siddiqui, illustrator: Hubert Maury, Pakistan/France), Editions Glénat, France
  • - “History’s Angel” (author: Anjum Hasan, India), Jacaranda Literary Agency, Singapore
  • - “Everything for Jo” / „Die Entflammten“ (author: Simone Meier, Switzerland), Kein & Aber, Switzerland
  • - “A Poisoner’s Tale” (author: Cathryn Kemp, United Kingdom), Penguin Random House UK, United Kingdom
  • - “The Áróra Investigation Series: Cold as Hell” / „Helköld sól” (author: Lilja Sigurðardóttir, Iceland), Reyjkavík Literary Agency, Iceland
  • - “Xerox / Hard Copy” / „Xerox” (author: Fien Veldman, the Netherlands), Sebes & Bisseling Literary Agency, The Netherlands

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