Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

We proudly present our Official Project Selection, our Co-Pro Series projects and the selected "Books at Berlinale" projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2019.

Project and Company Selection 2019

At the 16th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (9-13 February 2019) a selection of 37 promising feature film projects from 30 countries come together with a wide range of potential co-production and funding partners from around the world. In addition, the market presents five respected production companies in the scope of their exclusive “Company Matching Programme”.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Compartment Number Six (D: Juho Kuosmanen), Aamu Film Company, Finland
  • Alcarràs (D: Carla Simón), Avalon PC, Spain
  • The Hunt for the Puma (D: Marcela Said), Cinéma Defacto, France
  • Rule 34 (D: Júlia Murat), Esquina Filmes & Bubbles Project, Brazil
  • Hinterland (D: Stefan Ruzowitzky), FreibeuterFilm, Austria & Amour Fou Luxembourg, Luxembourg
  • Paradise (D: Bijon), Goopy Bagha Productions, Bangladesh, & Razor Film Produktion, Germany
  • The Kidnapping (D: Wang Yichun), Huace Pictures & Voilà Pictures, People’s Republic of China
  • Reshma Shera (D: Megha Ramaswamy), Jar Pictures, India
  • The Property (D: Dana Modan), July August Production, Israel & Extreme Emotions, Poland
  • Apollo (D: Arab and Tarzan Nasser), Les Films du Tambour, France
  • Petite Fleur (D: Santiago Mitre), Maneki Films, France & La Uniòn de los Rìos, Argentina
  • Home Away (D: Thanos Anastopoulos), Mansarda Production, Italy & Fantasia Audiovisual, Greece
  • A Responsible Adult (D: Shira Geffen), Marker Films, Israel
  • Chica_Chile_Norway (D: Ingvild Søderlind), Miso Film Norge, Norway
  • Je Suis Karl (D: Christian Schwochow), Pandora Film Produktion, Germany
  • Dominion (D: Boo Junfeng), Peanut Pictures, Singapore
  • The Souls (D: Tallulah H. Schwab), PRPL, The Netherlands
  • Nowhere Special (D: Uberto Pasolini), Red Wave Films, United Kingdom
  • For Real (D: Benjamin Cantu), Rohfilm Factory, Germany
  • Farewell o Earth (D: Ask Hasselbalch), Snowglobe, Denmark
  • Slash/Back (D: Nyla Innuksuk), Stellar Citizens & Scythia Films & Mixtape VR, Canada
  • Happy Sheep (D: Valéry Rosier), Wrong Men, Belgium

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • A Golden Shotgun (D: Alex Anwandter), Araucaria Cine & Panchito Films, Chile
  • From Malta to Oblivion (D: Axel Petersén), Flybridge, Sweden
  • Patrimonial Fears and Other Symptoms (D: Elina Psykou), Homemade Films & StudioBauhaus, Greece

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • Stillborn (D: Olga Chajdas), Apple Film Production, Poland
  • Peaches (D: Jenny Suen), White Sea Pictures (P: Jenny Suen), Hong Kong & Salty Pictures, People’s Republic of China (see also “Talent Project Market”)

"Talent Project Market":

  • Three Brothers (D: Francisco Paparella), 3 Moinhos (P: Ana Alice De Morais), Brazil & Río Azul Films, Argentina
  • Each of Us (D: Anne Zohra Berrached, Carla Simón, Meritxell Colell), Alhena Production (P: Eva Pauné), Spain
  • Livramento (D: Lillah Halla), Arissas Multimidia (P: Clarissa Guarilha Santos), Brazil
  • Kullu Men Allah (D: Rotem Kaplinsky), Black Sheep Film Productions (P: Alona Refua), Israel
  • Bufis (D: Mahad Ahmed), Cultural Video (P: Vincenzo Cavallo), Kenya
  • Wolf (D: Nathalie Biancheri), Feline Films (P: Jessie Fisk), Ireland
  • The Driver (D: Lusine Sargsyan), Illusion Production (P: Ophelia Harutyunyan), Armenia
  • In-Law (D: Dar Gai), Jugaad Motion Pictures (P: Dheer Momaya), India
  • Autobiography (D: Makbul Mubarak), KawanKawan Media (P: Yulia Evina Bhara), Indonesia
  • Like a Limbless Tree (D: Tunç Davut), Tekhne Film (P: Sinem Altindag), Turkey
  • Peaches (D: Jenny Suen), White Sea Pictures (P: Jenny Suen), Hong Kong & Salty Pictures, People’s Republic of China

Company Matching (in alphabetical order of company):

  • Bord Cadre films, Switzerland
  • Heretic, Greece
  • One Two Films, Germany
  • Pimienta Films, Mexico
  • Proton Cinema, Hungary

Co-Pro Series Projects 2019

On February 12 and 13, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invites producers, programming directors, distributors and other series financiers to the fifth edition of the exclusive pitch event “Co-Pro Series”, as part of the “Drama Series Days” 2019 at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema.

Ten new, selected drama series projects have the chance to find appropriate co-production and financing partners here.

Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2019

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Davos (Writers: Michael Sauter, Thomas Hess, Christoph Busche; D: Michael Krummenacher), Contrast Film Zürich, Switzerland
  • A Family Matter (Creator: Maja Jul Larsen; D: Pernille Fischer Christensen), DR Drama, Denmark
  • Reindeer Mafia (Writer: Sami Parkkinen; D: Mika Kurvinen, Mika Kaurismäki), Kaiho Republic, Finland
  • Trom (Writer: Torfinnur Jákupsson; D: tba), KYK Pictures, Faeroe Islands & REinvent Studios, Denmark
  • Clone (Writer/Director: Ole Giæver), Mer Film, Norway
  • Hacker (Writers: Andreas J. Riiser, Christian A. Owe, Amalie Kasin Lerstang; D: Andreas J. Riiser), Motlys, Norway
  • Napoleon (Creators/Showrunners: Ethan Reiff, Cyrus Voris; D: Agnieszka Holland), Saltire Entertainment, United Kingdom
  • Big Bones (Writer/Director: David Schalko), Satel Film & Superfilm, Austria
  • Flesh & Blood (Writer/Director: Michael Beran, Natalie Medlock; D: Tusi Tamasese), Tauihu Media, New Zealand & Bunya Productions, Australia

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania:

  • Immunity (Creator/Writer: Niels Laupert; D: tbc), Jumpseat Filmproduktion & Real Film Berlin, Germany

"Books at Berlinale" 2019

On February 11, film producers attending “Books at Berlinale” can discover twelve new literary works that lend themselves perfectly for adaptation to the screen. The selected novels are 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 can get in touch with them to establish and cultivate contacts in the international book world or 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” 2019:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • Dance or Die (Ahmad Joudeh, Syria), DeA Planeta Libri, Italy
  • Love in Case of Emergency (Daniela Krien, Germany), Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland
  • Salt on our Skin (Benoîte Groult, France), Editions Grasset & Fasquelle, France
  • The Invisible Girl (Blue Jeans, Spain), Editorial Planeta, Spain
  • The Wannsee Murder (Lutz Wilhelm Kellerhoff, Germany), Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, Germany
  • The Girl with the Leica (Helena Janeczek, Germany), Gruppo editoriale Mauri Spagnol, Italy
  • The Guest (Nermin Yıldırım, Turkey), Kalem Agency, Turkey
  • Keep Saying Their Names (Simon Stranger, Norway), Oslo Literary Agency, Norway
  • Play Dead (A.F. Th. van der Heijden, Netherlands), Singel Uitgeverijen, Netherlands
  • The Good Son (You-jeong Jeong, South Korea), The Artists
  • Rightful Blood (Francesca Melandri, Italy), The Italian Literary Agency, Italy
  • Great, And You? (Kathrin Weßling, Germany), Ullstein Buchverlage, Germany