Projects - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Project and Company Selection 2016

At the 13th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 14-16, 2016), 36 selected new feature film projects from 29 different countries were presented and supported in forging international co-production and financing partnerships. In addition, five renowned companies were presented in the market’s exclusive company matching programme.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Hostages (D: Rezo Gigineishvili), 20 Steps Productions, Georgia
  • The Little Comrade (D: Moonika Siimets), Amrion, Estonia
  • A Sort of Family (D: Diego Lerman), Campo Cine, Argentina
  • The Crooked Horn (D: Esmaeel Monsef), Caractères Productions & Alias Films, France
  • Blind Willow, Sleeping Woman (D: Pierre Földes), Cinema Defacto, France & Proton Cinema, Hungary
  • Srebrenica (D: Jasmila Zbanic), Deblokada, Bosnia und Herzegovina
  • The Desert Bride (D: Cecilia Atán & Valeria Pivato), El Perro en la Luna, Argentina & Ceibita Films, Chile
  • Butterfingers (D: Barnaby Southcombe), Embargo Films, United Kingdom
  • Vivarium (D: Lorcan Finnegan), Fantastic Films, Ireland
  • Amundsen (D: Roar Uthaug), Friland Produksjon, Norway
  • Invite Me to War (D: Shariff Korver), Lemming Film, The Netherlands
  • The Guest (D: Duccio Chiarini), Mood Film, Italy
  • Outside (D: Michal Hogenauer), Negativ, Czech Republic
  • Patrick (D: Gonçalo Waddington), O Som e a Fúria, Portugal
  • Tyger, Tyger (D: Mark Noonan), Savage Productions, Ireland
  • The Farm (D: Oliver Schmitz), Shadowy Meadows Productions, South Africa & Busse & Halberschmidt Filmproduktion, Germany
  • Echo (D: Arati Kadav), Sikhya Entertainment, India
  • A Small Small World (D: Philip Haucke), Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Germany
  • Memories from the Cell (D: Alvaro Brechner), Tornasol Films, Spain
  • Bayonette (D: Kyzza Terrazas), Woo Films & Redrum, Mexico

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • Birds of Passage (D: Ciro Guerra), Ciudad Lunar & Blond Indian Films, Columbia
  • Slam (D: Partho Sen-Gupta), Invisible Republic, Australia
  • Bootlegger (D: Caroline Monnet), Microclimat Films, Canada

Projects of Berlinale Residency:

  • Across the Fields (D: Daniel Borgman), Adomeit Film, Denmark
  • Tachal (D: Ella Manzheeva), Anniko Films & Telesto Film Company, Russian Federation
  • Diary of an Elephant (D: Fernando Eimbcke), Cinepantera, Mexico

"Talent Project Market":

  • The Fading Light of Neon Boy (P: Jessica Luz), Besouro Filmes, Brazil
  • From Grace (P: Gary Cranner), Chezville, Norway
  • Lucid (P: Raquelle David), Damsel Pictures, Australia
  • The Disappeared (P: Emine Yildirim), Giyotin Film, Turkey
  • Summer 1993 (P: Valerie Delpierre), Inicia Films, Spain
  • Money for a Funeral (P/D: Magdelena Ilieva), Little Wing Productions, Bulgaria
  • Transmorphosis (P/D: Jakob M. Erwa), Mojo:Pictures, Germany
  • The Moto-Snatcher (P: Cecilia Salim), Murillo Cine, Argentina
  • Tank (P: Max Serdiuk), Noosphere Films, Ukraine
  • The Gospel According to My Father (P: Stav Meron), Pardes Films, Israel

Company Matching (in alphabetical order of company):

  • Gullane, Brazil
  • Komplizen Film, Germany
  • Lucky Red, Italy
  • Memento Films International, France
  • The Film Farm, Canada

CoPro Series Projects 2016

On February 16, the Berlinale Co-Production Market hosted the second edition of its exclusive “CoPro Series” pitching and networking event: seven selected series projects looking for co-production and financing partners were presented.

“CoPro Series” again offered registered participants, producers and financiers from the pool of the Berlinale Co-Production Market and the “Drama Series Days” the opportunity to get to know the series’ creators at a networking get-together following their pitch, and arrange one-on-one meetings to discuss potential partnerships in more detail.

Selected Projects for “CoPro Series” 2016

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • The Disappearance (23/5 Filmproduktion), Germany
  • Avrupa (Circe Films), The Netherlands
  • The Illegal (Conquering Lion Pictures), Canada
  • Wars Inc. (Drama Team), Israel
  • Brotherhood (Friland Produksjon), Norway
  • Lucky Per (Nordisk Film Production), Denmark

Project selected in cooperation with Séries Mania

  • DNA (Eyeworks Scandi Fiction), Denmark

"Books at Berlinale" 2016

At “Books at Berlinale” on February 16, film producers could discover eleven new literary works with outstanding potential for adaptation to the big screen. The selected novels were presented in a pitching session at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in cooperation with the Frankfurt Book Fair. At the get-together following the pitch, invited producers had the opportunity to get to know the rights holders – respected, internationally active representatives of publishing houses and literary agents – to network or to directly negotiate the film rights options for the featured works.

The following literary works were selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2016:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • A Robot in the Garden (Deborah Install), Andrew Nurnberg Associates, United Kingdom
  • Spy Toys (Mark Powers), Bloomsbury Publishing, United Kingdom
  • The Ice-Cream Makers” (Ernest van der Kwast), De Bezige Bij, The Netherlands
  • Der Trick/The Trick (Emanuel Bergmann), Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland
  • Hool (Philipp Winkler), Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, Germany
  • Das achte Leben (Für Brilka)/The Eighth Life (For Brilka) (Nino Haratischwili), Frankfurter Verlagsanstalt, Germany
  • Poppyseed Lemon Cake (Cristina Campos), Grupo Planeta, Spain
  • Soraya (Meltem Yılmaz), Kalem Agency, Turkey
  • Run Away (Guy Delisle), Mediatoon, France
  • The Eyes of the Lake (Jessica Schiefauer), Nordin Agency, Sweden
  • Konrad oder Das Kind aus der Konservenbüchse/Conrad: The Factory-Made Boy (Christine Nöstlinger), Oetinger Filmrechte-Agentur, Germany