Sally Potter, Burak Çevik & Andrea Pallaoro Projects Head To Berlinale Co-Production Market
The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the 34 projects, hailing from 27 countries and selected from 318 submissions, that will be showcased at its Berlinale Co-Production Market, running from February 17 to 21. (scroll down for full list)
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).
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The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.
The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative, which will see them participate at both CineMart Rotterdam and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
A hybrid project combining documentary and fiction film, Zone | Myths by Daria Yurkevich, will be presented in the World Cinema Market section in cooperation with the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.
Berlinale Co-Production Market head Martina Bleis said the projects explored a range of contemporary topics such as home and migration; parenthood and the fear of commitment as well as political and social conflicts.
“Many topics are reflected in a number of projects with diverse approaches. Current political conflicts are sometimes examined through the lens of the past or alternatively, in visions of the future,” she said.
The festival also unveiled the selection for the Talent Project Market, organised in cooperation with Berlinale Talents.
It features ten projects from producers still in the first decade of their careers which were selected from 171 submissions.
To date, over 360 projects showcased in the Berlinale Co-Production Market have come to fruition including Golden Bear winners 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), Alcarràs (2022), and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) as well as high-profile festival titles such as The Siren, Puan, Holly, Toll, Shame on Dry Land and Lost Country.
Full list of Berlinale Co-Production Market
The Side Effects of Trusting Life (director: Ahmad Ghossein), Abbout Productions, Lebanon
A Woman Builds (directors: Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka), Akanga Film Asia, Singapore & 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 Produktion, 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 & 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 Projects and Selected Producer Talents
(in alphabetical order of production companies):
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
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