Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market
The Selection 2025 will be announced around mid-January, first the feature film projects, a few days later, Books at Berlinale and finally, Co-Pro Series.
For the 22nd Berlinale Co-Production Market (15 to 19 February), 35 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 2025
(in alphabetical order of production company):
- - Konbini (d: Pedro Collantes), Aquí y Allí Films, Spain
- - Holiday (d: Wissam Charaf), Aurora Films, France
- - The Funeral (d: Carolina Markowicz), Biônica Filmes, Brazil
- - 30 Days of Summer (d: Anastasiia Solonevych), Bosonfilm, Ukraine
- - Ibicaba - Visions of Paradise (d: Andrea Štaka), Cinédokké & Okofilm Productions, Switzerland
- - Suffering Is Optional (d: Zarrar Kahn), CityLights Media & LBG Films, Canada
- - Happy Days (d: Floor van der Meulen), Keplerfilm, Netherlands
- - Girl, Don't Play (d: Ainhoa Rodríguez), Les films du Worso, France & Tentación Cabiria, Spain
- - Crocodile Rock (d: Kirsten Tan), Momo Film Co., Singapore & 10minuteslater Films, USA
- - Men and Days (d: Arnau Vilaró), Nanouk Films, Spain
- - A Place in the World (d: Ayşe Polat), NiKo Film, Germany
- - Galerna (d: Tatiana Huezo), Pimienta Films, Mexico
- - Keep Her Quiet (d: Franz Böhm; co-director: Suli Kurban), Schubert, Germany
- - A Few Miles South (d: Ben Pearce), Stop Gap Films, Ireland & New Europe Productions, Poland
- - The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It (d: Maksym Nakonechnyi), Tabor, Ukraine
- - Lende (d: Katy Lena Ndiaye), Tact Production, France
- - The Magic Hour (d: Radu Muntean), Tangaj Production, Romania
- - Dreamgirl (d: Kaan Müjdeci), Tato Film & Asteros Film, Turkey
- - You Crazy Thing (d: Miia Tervo), Yellow Film & TV, Finland
"Berlinale Directors" projects:
- - The Block Universe (R: Stephan Komandarev), Argo Film, Bulgaria & 42Film, Germany
- - Daemon (R: Valeria Hofmann), Máquina, Chile
- - The Inverted Well (R: Narges Kalhor), Michael Kalb Filmproduktion, Germany
"World Cinema Market" project:
- - I'm Coming For You (d: Cyrielle Raingou), Je Capture Ma Réalité, Cameroon & Seera Films, Germany
"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":
- - Meat (d: Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair), Fantastic Films, Ireland
- - Four Seasons In Java (d: Kamila Andini), Forka Films, Indonesia
"Talent Project Market":
- - The Illusions (d: Ingrid Pokropek), 36 Caballos (p: Ivan Moscovich), Argentina
- - The Sun Sees Everything (d: Wissam Tanios), Abbout Productions (p: Christian Eid), Lebanon
- - March 14th (d: Alberto Gross Molo), Contraria Media (p: Laura Egidos Plaja), Spain
- - All That We Could Be (d: Rohena Gera), Marianne Productions (p: Alice Bloch), France
- - Death in Torrevieja (d: Adriana Arratia), Nakamura Films & Maqueta Films (p: Araceli Isaac Delso), Spain
- - Sentimental Fail Club (d: Jasmin Baumgartner), Ostblok (p: Dominic Spitaler), Austria
- - Hum (d: Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan), Prima Materia Pictures (p: Hannah Schierbeek), USA/Philippines
- - Sentinel (d: Carl Joseph E. Papa), Project 8 Projects (p: Geo Lomuntad), Philippines
- - The Serpent (d: Diogo Hayashi), Quarta-feira Filmes (p: Julia Alves), Brazil
- - A Certain Type (d: Christoffer Lossius), Skala (p: Louise Beyer), Norway
Company Matching Programme:
- - Cinema Inutile, USA & Japan
- - Fünferfilm, Germany
- - KawanKawan Media, Indonesia
- - Lava Films, Poland
- - Yetu (Un)limited, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya & Ghana
Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2025
(in alphabetical order of production company):
- Ruth’s Ghosts (creator/writer/director: Jennifer Fox), A Luminous Mind Production, USA, Oma Inge Film, Germany & Temair Pictures, USA
- The Best of Families (creator: Maja Jul Larsen; director: Charlotte Sieling), Apple Tree Productions, Denmark
- The Guard (co-creator/writer: Stéphane Mitchell; co-creator/director: Christian Johannes Koch), Catpics, Switzerland
- Recipes for a Nervous Breakdown (creator: Sophie White; director: tba), Deadpan Pictures, Ireland
- The Experts (head-writer: Julian Pörksen; director: tba), Filmgalerie 451, Germany
- Shit Happens (creator/head-writer: Magda Woitzuck; writer: Calle Fuhr; directors: Arman T. Riahi, David Wagner, tba), Nikolaus Geyrhalter Filmproduktion, Austria
- Miami Wildlife (creator: Adam Penn; directors: Fernando Meirelles, Quico Meirelles), O2 Filmes, Brasilien & Traveling Picture Show Company, USA
- Lucy. Maud. (writers: Susan Coyne, Rosa Laborde; director: Megan Follows), Story Girls Productions, Canada
- Sk8 or Die: The Lee Ralph Story (creators: Tom Hern, Halaifonua Finau; directors: Travon Free, Martin Desmond Roe, Tom Hern), Tavake, New Zealand
Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania:
• Our People (Autor: Miro Šifra; Regie: Tereza Nvotová), Nutprodukcia, Slovakia, Nutprodukce & Czech Television, Czech Republic
The following literary works are selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2025:
(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)
- - "The Sea Cemetery“ / „Havets kirkegård“ (author: Aslak Nore, Norway), Le Bruit du monde / EDITIS, France
- - "Whatever You Can Get“ / „Was du kriegen kannst“ (author: Clemens Böckmann, Germany), Carl Hanser Verlag, Germany
- - "The Spectrum Series“ / „Spektrum“ (author: Nanna Foss, Denmark), Gyldendal Group Agency, Denmark
- - "Daily Soap“ (author: Nora Osagiobare, Switzerland), Kein & Aber, Switzerland
- - "Impenetrable“ / „Impénétrable“ (author: Alix Garin, Belgium), Mediatoon, France
- - "Dog” / „Irô” (author: Angelo R. Lacosta, Philippines), Milflores Publishing, Philippines
- - "Pink Elephant” (author: Luca Kieser, Germany), Penguin Random House, Germany
- - "Mediterranean Gothic“ / „Gotico salentino” (author: Marina Pierri, Italy), Piergiorgio Nicolazzini Literary Agency (PNLA), Italy
- - "Poubelle“ (author: Pieter Waterdrinker, Netherlands), Singel Uitgeverijen, Netherlands
- - "Fish Days“ / „Fischtage“ (author: Charlotte Brandi, Germany), Ullstein Buchverlage, Germany
Berlinale Co-Production Market
Potsdamer Platz 11, D-10785 Berlin
coproductionmarket@berlinale.de