At the ninth Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12-14, 2012), the producers and directors of 39 selected film projects from 30 countries will meet with 450 potential co-production and financing partners. For each of these projects, the Berlinale Co-Production Market team will arrange approximately 25 meetings with interested partners.

 

The 25 new feature film projects (chosen out of 311 entries) in the Official Selection will be presented by experienced producers, and have budgets between 1 and 7 million euros, with at least 30% of their financing already in place.

 

Three more projects have been selected in cooperation with the CineMart Rotterdam for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”. These projects will participate in both the CineMart as well as the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

 

Another 247 applications were entered in conjunction with the Berlinale Talent Campus and eleven of these exciting newcomer projects have been chosen for the “Talent Project Market”.

 

New this year for the Berlinale Co-Production Market is the cooperation with the platform Festival Scope, which allows participants and other potentially interested partners to prepare for their meetings in Berlin by watching previous films by the selected directors online.

 

(in alphabetical order of production companies):

 

- Odyssea (director: Pascal Deux), Alliance de Production Cinématographique, France

 

- Heirs of the Night (director: Marco Kreuzpaintner, tbc), Bavaria Pictures & Hamster Film, Germany

 

- The Santo Amaro Circus (director: Chico Teixeira), Bossa Nova Films, Brazil

 

- Wasteland (director: Pieter Van Hees), CCCP/Epidemic, Belgium

 

- Embrace of the Serpent (director: Ciro Guerra), Ciudad Lunar Producciones, Colombia

 

- Coiled (director: Amanda Evans), DO Productions, South Africa

 

- Rockpool (director: Sonia Whiteman), Dragonet Films, Australia

 

- Ten Dates with Mad Mary (director: Darren Thornton), Element Pictures, Ireland

 

- Thomas and the Book of Everything (director: Ineke Houtman), Eyeworks Film & TV Drama, Netherlands

 

- Fleeing Dreams (director: Petri Kotwica), First Floor Productions, Finland

 

- The Pope's Toilet (director: Kasia Adamik), Flying Moon Filmproduktion, Germany & Opus Film, Poland

 

- The Beacon (director: JP Siili), Helsinki Filmi, Finland

 

- The Summer of Flying Fish (director: Marcela Said), Jirafa, Chile

 

- Kutch (director: Bobby Bedi), Kaleidoscope Entertainment, India

 

- L'Hérétique (director: Didier Nion), Les Films d'Ici, France

 

- Cristian (director: Tudor Giurgiu), Libra Film, Romania

 

- Mother Earth (director: Giulio Manfredonia), Lumière&Co, Italy

 

- Doctor Proktor's Fartpowder (director: Arild Fröhlich), Maipo Film, Norway

 

- The Bible II (director: Hans Petter Moland), Monster Film, Norway

 

- Julia Here (director: Sonya Gildea), Newgrange Pictures, Ireland

 

- The Word (director: Anna Kazejak), Opus Film, Poland

 

- Sunstrokes (director: Gustavo Taretto), Rizoma, Argentina

 

- Naked Eyes (director: Maria Nygren), Sonet Film, Sweden

 

- Pope (director: Stéphanie Weber Biron), Submission Films & Straight Edge Films, Canada

 

- Coconut Hero (director: Florian Cossen), teamWorx Television & Film, Germany

 

 

 

- Lost Rooms (director: Alexei Popogrebsky), Koktebel Film Company, Russia

 

- Tourist (director: Ruben Östlund), Plattform Produktion, Sweden & Essential Film, Germany

 

- Jojo Rabbit (director: Taika Waititi), Unison Films, USA & Defender Films, New Zealand

 

 

(in alphabetical order of Talents):

 

- Khsara (director: Suha Araj), Palestine/USA

 

- Heat Wave (producer: Sebastien Aubert), France/Israel

 

- Above the Clouds / Alapaap (producer: Bianca Balbuena), Philippines

 

- The Lunchbox / Dabba (director: Ritesh Batra), India

 

- Bummer (producer: Michelle Eastwood), United Kingdom

 

- Bridging (director: Sarah Goodman), Canada

 

- Hot Comb (director: Caroline Kamya), Uganda

 

- The Maglev Story (producer: Melissa Lee), Hong Kong

 

- Wasted Dreams / Eisen im Feuer (producer: Maximilian Leo), Germany

 

- Elba (director: Arturo Menéndez), El Salvador

 

- The Boda Boda Thieves (producer: Sarah Muhoho), South Africa/Kenia