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"Books at Berlinale", established in 2006 in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, is the first rights market at an A-Film Festival.
At Books at Berlinale, 10 selected novels are presented to an audience of internationally established producers at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The book presentation is engagingly moderated and the respective rights holders (publishers/literary agents) are introduced. Producers and film rights holders can also meet at a Matchmaking Session.
Producers who are interested in filming literary material, as well as publishers and literary agents can contact us at
Starting appriox end September and with a deadline in November, publishers and literary agents can submit their new novels for the upcoming edition of Books at Berlinale. The selected projects are going to be announced mid-January.
A small checklist for publishers and literary agents:
- - If you wish to have your novel considered for Books at Berlinale, you should be the film rights holder of the novel.
- - Your book proposal should be a best-selling or brand new, yet to be published novel with great potential for screen adaptation.
- - Please bear in mind when deciding which book to submit that the international producers attending the Berlinale Co-Production Market mainly work in the arthouse sector. Their average budgets for realising a film range from 1-6 million Euros.
- - An English translation or a sample translation of the novel must exist for the selection, and also in order to be handed out by you to interested producers upon request.
If you have a matching title, please follow this submission link to enter the Berlinale Pro* platform in order to create a new project and submit it.
If you are not sure which book to submit and for further questions, please do not hesitate to contact us at .