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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 September 16 and with a deadline on November 11, publishers and literary agents can currently submit their new novels for the upcoming edition of Books at Berlinale. The selected projects 2026 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 .