Projects - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Project and Company Selection 2017

At the 14th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12 to 15, 2017) a selection of 36 promising feature-film projects from 29 countries came together with a wide range of potential co-production and funding partners from around the world. In addition, the market presented five renowned production companies in the scope of the exclusive “Company Matching Programme”.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Where the Summer Went (D: Beatriz Sanchis), Animal de Luz Films, Mexico
  • Psychobitch (D: Martin Lund), Ape&Bjørn, Norway
  • 7500 (D: Patrick Vollrath), Augenschein Filmproduktion, Germany
  • Irene (D: Celina Murga), Cepa Audiovisual & Tresmilmundos Cine, Argentina
  • The Ski Jumper Who Didn't Want to Land (D: Hans Petter Moland), Chezville & Storyline Studios, Norway
  • Overgod (D: Gabriel Mascaro), Desvia Produções, Brazil
  • Clear Blue (D: Lindsay MacKay), Devonshire Productions, Canada
  • Man's Fate (D: Lou Ye), Dream Factory, China & Chinese Shadows, Hong Kong, China
  • The Deer (D: Bogdan George Apetri), Fantascope, Romania
  • The Monster Within (D: Rodrigo Susarte), Forastero, Chile
  • Lost Country (D: Vladimir Perisic), KinoElektron, France, Trilema, Serbia & MPM Film, France
  • Benigno Cruz (D: Jorge Hernandez Aldana), La Pandilla Producciones, Venezuela & Lucía Films & Paloma Negra Films, Mexico
  • Eloe (D: Piotr Złotorowicz), Lava Films, Poland
  • Charlatan (D: Agnieszka Holland), Marlene Film Production, Czech Republic
  • A Film by Verner Holm (D: Jannik Johansen), Profile Pictures, Denmark
  • Blanquita (D: Fernando Guzzoni), QuijoteRampante, Chile
  • Paloma's Wedding (D: Marcelo Gomes), Rec Produtores, Brazil
  • Waiting for an Angel (D: Akin Omotoso), Rififi Pictures, South Africa & Triptych Media, Canada
  • Dead Noon (D: Jeff Desom), Samsa Film, Luxembourg
  • Daughter of Mine (D: Laura Bispuri), Vivo Film, Italy

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • Ten Thousand Happiness (D: Johnny Ma), Image X Productions, China
  • Colour of the Skull (D: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer), Mille et Une Productions, France
  • Zorro (D: Ronny Trocker), Zischlermann Filmproduktion, Germany

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • Girls of the Sun (D: Eva Husson), Maneki Films, France
  • Jumpman (D: Ivan I. Tverdovsky), New People Film Company, Russia
  • The Wife of the Pilot(D: Anne Zohra Berrached), Razor Film Produktion, Germany

"Talent Project Market":

  • The Deposit(P: Eva Sigurdardottir), Askja Films, Iceland
  • MNK Boy (P: Aydin Dehzad), Kaliber Film, Netherlands / Turkey
  • Shock Labor(P: Maria Carla del Rio), Marinca Filmes, Cuba
  • The Bus to Amerika (P: Nefes Polat), Mars Production, Turkey
  • The Space Between (P: Angela Lee), Nifty Pictures, USA
  • Memoryland (P/D: Quy Bui), Pixelholic Media, Vietnam
  • Tomorrow is a Long Time (P: Jeremy Chua), Potocol, Singapore
  • Never the Bright Lights (P: Tonee Acejo), Quiapost Productions, Philippines
  • You Will Die at Twenty (P: Hossam Elouan), Transit Films, Egypt / Sudan
  • Breaking Surface (P: Julia Gebauer), Way Creative Films, Sweden

Company Matching (in alphabetical order of company):

  • Black Sheep Film Productions, Israel
  • Haut et Court, France
  • Mer Film, Norway
  • Washington Square Films, USA
  • Weydemann Bros., Germany

CoPro Series Projects 2017

On February 15, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invited producers, television representatives, distributors and further series financiers to the third edition of the exclusive series pitching session “CoPro Series”, which took place this year at the new venue for the “Drama Series Days”, the Zoo Palast cinema.

Seven select series projects pitched to and met with co-production and financing partners here among the 260 industry guests.

Selected Projects for “CoPro Series” 2017

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Freud (Bavaria Fernsehproduktion & Satel Film), Germany & Austria
  • Cognition (Catalyst Global Media & A Better Tomorrow Films), United Kingdom & USA
  • Omerta (Caviar), Belgium
  • Metro (Kelija), France
  • State of Happiness (Maipo Film), Norway
  • Hausen (Tanuki Films), Bulgaria

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania

  • Warrior (Miso Film), Denmark

"Books at Berlinale" 2017

On February 14, film producers attending “Books at Berlinale” could discover twelve new literary works that lend themselves perfectly for adaptation to the screen. The selected novels were presented at a pitching session by the literary agents and representatives of publishing houses who hold the film rights. At the get-together following the pitch, invited producers could get in touch with them to establish and cultivate contacts in the international book world or perhaps even begin to negotiate right away to option the film rights to one or more of the selected books.

The following literary works were selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2017:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • Elefant / Elephant (Martin Suter), Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland
  • Never Be Sad Again (Baptiste Beaulieu), Éditions Fayard, France
  • The Boy (Marcus Malte), Éditions Zulma, France
  • Ein mögliches Leben / One Possible Life (Hannes Köhler), Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, Germany
  • The Mascoteers: Enter the Zebra (Rollo de Walden), Kaiken Publishing, Finland
  • The Last Pomegranate (Bachtyar Ali), Literarische Agentur Mertin, Germany
  • The History of Bees (Maja Lunde), Norse Code Agency, Norway
  • Berlin - Fires of Tegel (Fabio Geda & Marco Magnone), Oetinger Filmrechte-Agentur, Germany
  • The Ditch (Herman Koch), Shared Stories, The Netherlands
  • We Own the Sky (Luke Allnutt), The Artists Partnership, United Kingdom
  • The Remnant (Rafael Cardoso), Villas-Boas & Moss Literary Agency, Brazil
  • The Joyce Girl (Annabel Abbs), Zeitgeist Literary Agency, Belgium