Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

The Official Selection of the feature film projects, the "Books at Berlinale" projects and the Co-Pro Series projects participating in the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2020 have been revealed.

Project and Company Selection 2020

At the 17th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (22-26 February 2020), a selection of 36 promising feature film projects from 34 countries will 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 the exclusive “Company Matching Programme”.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Electric Child (D: Simon Jaquemet), 8horses, Switzerland
  • Skin of Youth (D: Ash Mayfair), An Nam Productions, Vietnam & Mayfair Pictures, USA
  • Toll (D: Carolina Markowicz), Biônica Filmes, Brazil & O Som e A Furia, Portugal
  • Sweet Lips (D: Tusi Tamasese), Blueskin Films, New Zealand
  • Antonia's Garden (D: Christine Repond), Contrast Film, Switzerland
  • Boldstar (D: Antoinette Jadaone), Epicmedia & Project 8 Projects, Philippines
  • There Are Two Kinds of People in This World (D: Onur Saylak), Liman Film & b.i.t Arts, Turkey
  • Reflection (D: Valentyn Vasyanovych), Limelite & Arsenal Films, Ukraine
  • Salt Lake (D: Kasia Rosłaniec), Mañana, Poland
  • Happiness (D: Pepa San Martín), Manufactura de Películas, Chile & Aleph Cine, Argentina
  • Let The River Flow! (D: Ole Giæver), Mer Film, Norway
  • Happy Lovers (D: Hicham Lasri), Moon A Deal, France & La Prod, Morocco
  • Piggy (D: Carlota Pereda), Morena Films, Spain
  • Winterreise (D: Alex Helfrecht), Oiffy, United Kingdom
  • The Long Run (D: Andrea Magnani), Pilgrim, Italy
  • Life of a Great Director(D: Philippe Lesage), Productions l'unité Centrale, Canada
  • Bedsitterland (D: Nick Kelly), Samson Films, Ireland
  • The Melting (D: Veerle Baetens), Savage Film, Belgium
  • Zafari (D: Mariana Rondon), Sudaca Films, Peru & Venezuela & Klaxon, Brazil
  • A House in the Country (D: Davi Pretto), Vulcana Cinema, Brazil
  • Transit Times (D: Ana-Felicia Scutelnicu), Weydemann Bros, Deutschland & Mobra Films, Romania

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • Death and the Maiden (D: Adina Pintilie), Manekino Film, Romania
  • The Herd (D: Milko Lazarov), Red Carpet, Bulgaria
  • Maret (D: Laura Schroeder), Red Lion, Luxembourg & Red Balloon, Germany

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • Sleepwalkers (D: Radu Jude), Microfilm, Romania
  • A Shadow Creeps in Silver Trees (D: John Trengove), Urucu Media, South Africa

"Talent Project Market":

  • The Sky Is Mine (D: Deepak Rauniyar), Aadi Production (P: Deepak Rauniyar), Nepal
  • Little Boy Blue (D: Tommaso Pitta), Bridge Way (P: Chris Hees), United Kingdom
  • Hazel Eyes (D: Maria Ibrahimova), Cinex (P: Maria Ibrahimova), Azerbaijan
  • Just (D: Jack Turits), Jack Turits Studio (P: Jack Turits), USA & Poland
  • The Last Paradise on Earth (D: Sakaris Stórá), KYK Pictures (P: Jón Hammer), Faroe Islands
  • Sahar (D: Vera Egito), Lacuna Filmes (P: Diana Almeida), Brazil
  • Richelieu (D: Pier-Philippe Chevigny), Le Foyer Films (P: Geneviève Gosselin-G.), Canada
  • Mariam (D: Hamza Bangash), Other Memory Media (P: Anam Abbas), Pakistan
  • Faraway (D: Yorgos Zois), Squared Square (P: Antigoni Rota), Greece
  • Crocodile Tears (D: Tumpal Tampubolon), Tanakhir Films (P: Mandy Marahimin), Indonesia

Company Matching (in alphabetical order of company):

  • Big World Cinema, South Africa
  • Cinéma Defacto, France
  • Kinorama, Croatia
  • Rei Cine, Argentina
  • Snowglobe, Denmark

Co-Pro Series Projects 2020

On February 25 and 26, 2020 the Berlinale Co-Production Market will invite producers, programming directors, distributors and other series financiers to the sixth edition of the exclusive pitch event “Co-Pro Series”, as part of the “Berlinale Series Market” 20120 at Berlin’s Zoo Palast cinema.

Ten new, selected drama series projects will meet with co-production and financing partners here.

Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2020

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • The King's Wives (Writers: Hany Abu-Assad, Amira Diab; D: Hany Abu-Assad), Abbout Productions, Lebanon
  • Babyland (Writers: Simona Nobile, Dianne Jones, Martichka Bozhilova; D: tba), Agitprop, Bulgaria
  • Precious (Writers: J. David Guerra, Joost van Gelder; D: tba), Atlantic Films & Lemming Film, The Netherlands
  • Dark Victory (Writer/Director: Matthew Saville), Goalpost Television, Australia
  • Pawns (Writers: Michael Idov, Lily Idov, Director: tba), Metrafilms, Russia
  • Transitniki (Writers: Heide Schwochow, Constantin Lieb, Christian Mackrodt; D: tba), Rohfilm Factory, Germany
  • Signals (Writers: Óskar Jónasson, Margrét Örnólfsdóttir, Sjón, Jóhann Ævar Grímsson; D: Óskar Jónasson), Sagafilm, Iceland
  • Dome 16 (Writer: Thomas Seeberg Torjussen; D: tba), Tordenfilm, Norway
  • Snow (Writer: Michaela Taschek; D: Barbara Albert, Sandra Wollner), Witcraft Filmproduktion, Austria

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania:

  • Capturing Big Mouth (Writers: Ahsan Naeem & Hans Van Nuffel; D: tba), De Mensen, Belgium & Reel One Entertainment, United Kingdom

"Books at Berlinale" 2020

On February 24, at the “Books at Berlinale” pitching event, the Berlinale Co-Production Market will once again present twelve exceptional works of literature that are particularly well-suited for screen-adaptation. “Books at Berlinale”, which has been placing a spotlight on recent publications and bestsellers every year since 2006, gives film producers the opportunity to come into contact with renowned and internationally active publishers and literary agents who hold the film rights to the books in question.

The following literary works were selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2020:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • When Life was Beautiful Again (Kerstin Sgonina, Germany), Agentur Eggers, Germany
  • I Will Never See the World Again (Ahmet Altan, Turkey), Clementina Liuzzi Literary Agency, Italy
  • Mariana Trench (Jasmin Schreiber, Germany), Elisabeth Ruge Agentur, Germany
  • Among Wolves (Alex Beer, Austria), Gattys Global, Germany
  • The Man Who Played with Fire – Stieg Larsson’s Lost Files and The Hunt For An Assassin (Jan Stocklassa, Sweden), Generalissimo, Sweden
  • The Authenticity Project (Clare Pooley, United Kingdom), Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency, United Kingdom
  • The American Fiancée (Eric Dupont, Canada), Marchand de feuilles, Canada
  • Lean Your Loneliness Slowly Against Mine (Klara Hveberg, Norway), Oslo Literary Agency, Norway
  • Shark's Teeth (Anna Woltz, Niederlande), Singel Uitgeverijen, Netherlands
  • Surrogates (Susan Spindler, United Kingdom), Susanna Lea Associates, France
  • Winterbees (Norbert Scheuer, Germany), Verlag C.H. Beck, Germany
  • The Lost Children (Romina Casagrande, Italy), Vicki Satlow Literary Agency, Italy