News - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Timeline and links for our 2027 edition (Feb 13-16, 2027):

Open: August 18 to September 16: Call for the Official Selection: Experienced producers from all over the world can submit their new feature-length fiction projects with a budget range from 1 to 20 million Euros, with at least 30% of financing (or the local production funding) already in place, for which they are seeking international co-production and financing partners. Ca. 20 of them will be selected and presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2027.

Further information and link to the online submission for fiction feature projects for the Official Selection

Open: August 18 to October 1: Co-Pro Series: Drama series projects in development and financing stages can be submitted for Co-Pro Series. A selection of 10 projects will be presented at the Co-Pro Series Pitch and Networking event. Further information and link to the online submission for drama series projects for Co-Pro Series

Open: July-September 2: submissions open for the Talent Project Market in cooperation with Berlinale Talents. 10 projects will be selected for the Talent Project Market 2026. Find more information here

Coming soon: early September to November: Books at Berlinale: literary agents and publishers can submit novels for Books at Berlinale, to be held in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse during the Berlinale Co-Production Market. Find out more here

From November: producers, financiers, sales agents, distributors, representatives of funds, TV channels and VOD platforms looking for projects, can apply to participate at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (deadline early December) and/or Co-Pro Series or Books at Berlinale (deadlines early January) without a project.

Four cash prizes were awarded to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14 to 17).

The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, endowed with 20,000 Euros, went to afterschool production from Lithuania for their project Liberations (director: Laurynas Bareisa, producer: Klementina Remeikaite). The award is presented by the European film fund Eurimages to promote the development of the project. Jury members this year were funding representative Pablo Pérez de Lema (ICAA, Spain), world sales representative Ioanna Stais (Heretic, Greece) and producer Jonas Dornbach (Komplizen Film, Germany).

The Gen Z Audience Award, presented for the second time and endowed with 5.000 euros, goes to the project Cura Sana (director: Lucía G. Romero) by producers Laura Fernández Brites and Sendy Palomino Vivar (Filmax, Spain). The jury was made up of five film students from German and French film universities: Daniel Beschareti, Isidora Lazić, Nicolas Chapt, Pauline Szczesny, and Sophia Beatrice. Sponsored by the Franco-German Youth Office, the prize is awarded to a feature film project that particularly appeals to young cinema-goers aged between 20 and 28.

The ARTEKino International Award 2026 goes to Lotus Feet by Amanda Nell Eu, produced by Ghost Grrrl Pictures from Malaysia. This award worth 6,000 euros is presented by ARTE to honour an artistically outstanding project from the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

The VFF Talent Highlight Award with the prize money of 10,000 euros, annually presented by the VFF – Copyright Agency of Film and TV Producers, promotes one promising project from the Talent Project Market, the longstanding cooperation between Berlinale Talents and Berlinale Co-Production Market. This year, the award goes to The Most Romantic Man in the World (director: Simon Jaquemet), pitched at the Berlinale Co-Production Market by the producer Olga Lamontanara (8horses, Switzerland). Nominee awards of 1,000 euros each went to the producer Yulia Evina Bhara (KawanKawan Media) from Indonesia and the producer Gary Cranner (Mantra Film) from Norway.

We had the pleasure of preparing this episode of the Industry Insights Podcast, together with our colleagues from the EFM.

n this episode, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invites two experienced producers to share their innovative strategies as part of a film industry in flux and how they address the changes of their own roles. Didar Domehri, producer and founder of Maneki Film and Maneki Stories, and Roman Paul, producer and co-founder of Razor Film Produktion, join forces to discuss the need for both, flexibility and collaboration while maintaining one’s own outstanding focus as an independent producer

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We had the pleasure to help prepare our colleagues' podcast, EFM Industry Insights.

For episode Number 6, we checked in with producer Ewa Puszczynska, who is not only a regular at the Berlinale Co-Production Market, but also known for Academy Award-winning Ida by Pawel Pawlikowski, as well as Berlinale films like Kill it and Leave this Town by Mariusz Wilczynski (Encounters 2020) or as a co-producer of the Academy Award-nominated Quo Vadis, Aida?

Moderator Johanna Koljonen spoke with Ewa about her own, very personal approach to life as a producer and to the art of film. Find it here.

We had the pleasure of preparing a new episode of the Industry Insights Podcast, together with our colleagues from the EFM.

This episode focuses on current producing strategies in the drama series landscape after the TV-series boom of the last decade. Hosted by Johanna Koljonen, guest speakers Ankica Jurić Tilić and Marike Muselaers share their experiences in financing drama series, their take on the current market landscape as well as financing strategies for producers in different parts of Europe, and explain how co-productions may play an increasing role today.

Find the podcast here.