The Berlinale Co-Production Market kicked off in 2004. Since then there have been innumerable pre-arranged meetings and casual encounters between professionals. The outcome of these meetings are the many films and newly started collaborations. More than 120 projects from the previous editions are already in production or completed.

Four films from previous Berlinale Co-Production Markets were presented at this year’s Berlinale: Israeli director Nir Bergman’s Intimate Grammar, which won awards at festivals in Jerusalem and Tokyo, screened in Generation Kplus. Rosario García-Montero met her co-producers from Barry Films, Germany, while taking part in the “Talent Project Market” in 2007. Her film Las Malas Intenciones/The Bad Intentions, lateron won the support of the Berlinale’s World Cinema Fund and now returned to Berlin to celebrate its world premiere in Generation Kplus. Two more films were shown in the Panorama: Invisible/Lo Roim Alaich by Michal Aviad from Israel, and the Greek film Man in the Sea by Constantine Giannaris.

 

Films that have successfully premiered this year also include the Cannes entries Elena by Andrey Zvyagintsev (Certain Regard), Hunter by Bakur Bakuradze (Certain Regard) and On the Plank by Leila Kilani (Directors' Fortnight), as well as the French-German-Polish co-production Land of Oblivion by Michale Boganim which screened at Venice as part of the Critics' Week.

 

Previous projects from the Berlinale Co-Production Market include, among others, award-winning features like Lebanon by Samuel Maoz (Golden Lion, Venice Film Festival), the Academy Award nominated Mongol by Sergei Bodrov and crossover hits like Lemon Tree by Eran Riklis which was selected for the Berlinale Panorama in 2008 and released in more than 20 countries.

 

Many more films are currently in production and post-production.

 

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