Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Project and Company Selection 2018

At the 15th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 17 to 21, 2018) a selection of 36 promising feature-film projects from 28 countries came together with a wide range of potential co-production and funding partners from around the world. In addition, the market presented five respected production companies in the scope of their exclusive “Company Matching Programme”.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • The Hole in the Fence (D: Joaquín del Paso), Amondo Films, Mexico
  • The Woman with the Gun (D: Yorgos Servetas), Argonauts Productions, Greece
  • Home (D: Franka Potente), Augenschein Filmproduktion, Germany
  • Nobody Likes Me (D: Tomas Weinreb, Petr Kazda), Black Balance & Love.Frame & Arizona Productions, Czech Republic / France
  • Haunted (D: Koen Mortier), Czar Film & TV, Belgium
  • Motel Acacia (D: Bradley Liew), Epicmedia Productions & Potocol, Philippines / Singapore
  • Dr. Glas (D: Aisling Walsh), Fantastic Films & Makar Productions, Ireland / UK
  • The Sound of Animals Fighting (D: Sibs Shongwe-La Mer), Fireworx Media, South Africa / Brazil
  • Three (D: Juanjo Giménez), Frida Films, Spain
  • My Camino (D: Louise Archambault), Item 7, Canada
  • Pelican Blood (D: Katrin Gebbe), Junafilm, Germany
  • The Siren (D: Sepideh Farsi), Les Films d'Ici & Lunanime, France / Belgium
  • An Empty Goal (D: Sergio Castro), Manufactura de Películas & Bigbonsai, Chile / Brazil
  • The War Has Ended (D: Hagar Ben Asher), Match Factory Productions & Madants & Transfax, Germany / Poland / Israel
  • Abdullah and his Sons (D: Esen Isik), Maximage, Switzerland
  • Advantages of Travelling by Train (D: Aritz Moreno), Morena Films & Señor y Señora, Spain
  • My First Time of Dying (D: Cristiane Oliveira), Okna Produções, Brazil
  • I, Alex (D: İlker Çatak), Riva Filmproduktion, Germany
  • Soul Hunter (D: Andreas Dalsgaard), Savage Productions, Ireland
  • The Quarters (D: Todd Solondz, Anna Muylaert, Mohsen Makhmalbaf, Arsinee Khanjian), Six Island Productions & Green Productions & Impulse Pictures, Canada / Israel
  • When I'm Done Dying (D: Nisan Dag), Solis Film, Turkey

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • Doi Boy (D: Nontawat Numbenchapol), Anti-Archive & Mobile Lab Project, Cambodia / Thailand
  • Three Minutes of Silence (D: Boris Khlebnikov), CTB Film Company, Russian Federation
  • The Strangers of the Cold Mountain (D: Albertina Carri), El Borde, Argentina

"Rotterdam-Berlinale Express":

  • Mon Légionnaire (D: Rachel Lang), Chevaldeuxtrois & Wrong Men, Belgium / France
  • A White, White Day (D: Hlynur Pálmason), Join Motion Pictures & Snowglobe, Iceland / Denmark

"Talent Project Market":

  • Nudo Mixteco (D: Ángeles Cruz), Amard Bird Films (P: Paula Alamillo), Germany
  • The Empty House (D: Rati Tsiteladze), ArtWay Film (P: Rati Tsiteladze), Georgia
  • Mascot (D: Remy van Heugten), Bind (P: Joram Willink), The Netherlands
  • Lynx (D: Sharipa Urazbayeva), Filmstar.kz (P: Sharipa Urazbayeva) & Tandem Production, Kazakhstan / Germany
  • Tropical Memories (D: Shipei Wen), Foolish Old Man Production (P: Jing Wang), People’s Republic of China
  • Milk (D: Maya Kenig), Green Productions (P: Maya Fischer), Israel
  • The Far Mountains (D: Mitra Tabrizian), Sonatine Films (P: Zadoc Nava), United Kingdom
  • The Isle of the Demoiselle (D: Micha Wald), Stenola Productions (P: Anton Iffland Stettner), Belgium
  • Flee (D: Jonas Poher Rasmussen), Sun Creature (P: Charlotte de la Gournerie) & Final Cut for Real, Denmark
  • Sáve - The Last of the First (D: tba), The End (P: Khalid Maimouni), Norway

Company Matching (in alphabetical order of company):

  • Heimatfilm, Germany
  • Indie Prod / Indie Sales, France
  • Metafilms, Canada
  • Mutante Cine, Uruguay
  • Schortcut, Lebanon

CoPro Series Projects 2018

On February 21, for the fourth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invited producers, commissioning editors, distributors, and other drama series financiers to the Zoo Palast for the exclusive pitch event “CoPro Series”, as part of the “Drama Series Days”.

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

Selected Projects for “CoPro Series” 2018

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Baby Alone (Writers: Judith Angerbauer, Matthias Luthardt; D: Matthias Luthardt), Akzente Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Germany
  • South (Writers: Edgar Medina, Guilherme Mendonça; D: Ivo M. Ferreira), Arquipélago Filmes, Portugal
  • In a Heartbeat (Writers: Shani Melamed Nitzan & Gaya Wildman; D: tba), Black Sheep Film Productions, Israel
  • Henkersbach (Writers: Friedrich Ani, Ina Jung; D: Dominik Graf), Cinecentrum Berlin Film- und Fernsehproduktion, Germany
  • Fury (Showrunner: Gjermund S. Eriksen; D: Roar Uthaug), Monster Scripted, Norway
  • Costigan (Writer: Gary Duggan; D: Neasa Hardiman, tbc), Shinawil & Against the Grain, Ireland
  • Black Port (Writer: Mikael Torfason; D: Bjorn Hlynur Haraldsson & Gisli Orn Gardarsson), Vesturport, Iceland

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania European Project & Talent Forum

  • The Faction (Writer: Oscar van Woensel; D: tbc), Submarine, The Netherlands

"Books at Berlinale" 2018

On February 19, 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 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” 2018:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • In the Midst of Winter (Isabel Allende), Agencia Literaria Carmen Balcells, Spain
  • Fake Metal Jacket (Sven Recker), Agentur Kroll, Germany
  • The Other Amsterdam (Dato Turashvili), Bakur Sulakauri Publishing, Georgia
  • The Million Kroner Kindness Competition (Arnfinn Kolerud), Cappelen Damm Agency, Norway
  • #egoland (Michael Nast), Edel Books, Germany
  • Bakhita (Veronique Olmi), Editions Albin Michel, France
  • Magda (Mazarine Pingeot), Editions Julliard, France
  • The Girl in the Tree (Şebnem İşigüzel), Kalem Agency, Turkey
  • Where the Missing Go (Emma Rowley), Orion Publishing Group, United Kingdom
  • Martha's Dance (Tom Saller), Ullstein Buchverlage, Germany
  • Hitler's Feast (Rosella Postorino), Vicki Satlow Literary Agency, Italy
  • Captain Horror's Island (Rodoula Pappa), Volatilium, Greece