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