The eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market will take place from Sunday to Tuesday, February 13 - 15, 2011. As of mid-September 2010, interested professionals can apply to participate. For details, please see Participation
The seventh Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2010) was again a big success. 36 selected film projects from 22 countries were presented. In Berlin, the producers of the projects met with interested potential co-producers and financiers in over 1000 individual one-on-one meetings. You can find the review at Co-Production Market 2010
For the list of selected projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2010, please see Project Selection
Successful Matches
Many projects have found their financing in Berlin during the past seven editions of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. In the meantime, more than 90 projects from previous years are already in production or have been completed, and many more are underway.
Click on the pop-up link below, to view the list of realised projects since 2004:
Three films that the Co-Production Market successfully assisted in the past years have screened at the Berlinale 2010: the Iranian-German co-production Shekarchi by Rafi Pitts has been selected for Competition, and Esmir Filho’s feature debut The Famous and The Dead as well as Rusudan Pirveli's Susa were shown in Generation.
Cristi Puiu's Romanian-French-Swiss-German co-production Aurora (Rotterdam-Berlinale Express 2008) was selected for Un Certain Regard at Cannes 2010.
Films that have successfully premiered in the past year also include Lebanon by Samuel Maoz which won the Golden Lion in Venice, the Sundance 2010 World Cinema Audience Award winner Contracorriente/Undertow by Javier Fuentes-León (Talent Project Market 2005) Soundless Wind Chime by Kit Hung (Talent Project Market 2004; Berlin International Film Festival, Forum), Lost Persons Area by Caroline Strubbe (Rotterdam-Berlinale Express 2007; Cannes Film Festival, Critics’ Week; SACD Screenplay Award), and Amreeka by Cherien Dabis (Talent Project Market 2007; Cannes Film Festival, Directors’ Fortnight; FIPRESCI Prize), Small Crime by Christos Georgiou which became a summer hit in German cinemas.
Many more films are currently in production and post-production.