Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Project Selection 2022

At the 19th edition of the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 12-16, 2022), a selection of 34 promising feature film projects from 32 countries were presented and brought together for online meetings with a wide range of potential co-production and funding partners from around the world.

Official Projects

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • Mehal Sefari (Director: Abraham Gezahagne), Abricom Multimedia, Ethiopia & Gobez Media, Canada/Ethiopia
  • Las Corrientes (Director: Milagros Mumenthaler), Alina Film, Switzerland & Ruda Cine, Argentina
  • The Paris Project (Director: Arno Salters), Beluga Tree, Belgium
  • Jimpa (Director: Sophie Hyde), Closer Productions, Australia
  • Mother (Director: Teona Strugar Mitevska), Entre chien et Loup, Belgium
  • Ortalan (Director: Nariman Aliev), ForeFilms, Ukraine
  • The Wolf Will Tear Your Immaculate Hands (Director: Nathalie Álvarez Mesén), Hobab, Sweden & Resolve Media, USA
  • The Wind Also Sings (Director: Hadi Ghandour), Incognito Films & Virginie Films, France
  • Bonefever (Director: Bence Fliegauf), Inforg-M&M Film & Fraktál Film, Hungary
  • 20,000 Species of Bees (Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren),Gariza Films & Inicia Films, Spain
  • The Difficult Bride (Director: Rubaiyat Hossain), Khona Talkies, Bangladesh
  • Truly Madly Deeply (Director: Carlo Sironi), Kino Produzioni, Italy
  • Yellow Letters (Director: İlker Çatak), Liman Film, Turkey & if… Productions, Germany
  • Slow (Director: Marija Kavtaradze), M-Films, Lithuania
  • Texas Soul Sister (Director: Pascale Lamche), Maneki Films & Haut Et Court Doc, France
  • Kafka(Director: Agnieszka Holland), Marlene Film Production, Czech Republic & Film and Music Entertainment, United Kingdom/Ireland
  • In the Shadow of the Horns (Director: Ognjen Glavonić), Non-Aligned Films, Serbia
  • Virginia Woolf’s Night & Day (Director: Tina Gharavi), Piccadilly Pictures & Asterisk Films, United Kingdom
  • The Spring (Director: Ivan Ostrochovský), Punkchart Films, Slovakia

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • My Favourite Cake (Directors: Maryam Moghaddam & Behtash Sanaeeha), Caractères Productions, France & Honare Khiyal, Iran
  • Heia, Heia, Safari! (director: Radu Jude), jip Film & Verleih, Germany & Micro Film, Romania
  • Eunuch (Director: Udita Bhargava), Schiwago Film, Germany
  • No Beast So Fierce (Director: Burhan Qurbani), Sommerhaus Filmproduktion, Germany

"Rotterdam-Berlinalale Express":

  • Love on Trial (Director: Koji Fukada), Knockonwood, Japan & Survivance, France

"Talent Project Market":

  • Breed (Director: Kate Dolan), Blinder Films (producer: Evan Horan), Ireland
  • The Trials of Alien Life (Director: Ian Lagarde), Colonelle Films (producer: Sarah Mannering), Canada
  • Girls Will Be Girls (Director: Shuchi Talati), Crawling Angel Films (producer: Pooja Chauhan), India
  • Available Now (Director: Assaf Machnes), KM Productions (producer: Kobi Mizrahi), Israel
  • Sadrack (Director: Narcisse Wandji), Les Films d'Ebène (producer: Evodie N. Ngueyeli), Cameroon
  • Lucky Strikes (Director: Vivienne Vaughn), MHK Productions (producer: Maya Korn), USA
  • Don't Cry, Butterfly (Director: Duong Dieu Linh), Momo Film Co (producer: Tan Si En), Singapore & Vietnam
  • Hana Korea (Director: Frederik Sølberg), Seesaw Pictures (producer: Heejung Oh), Republik of Korea & Denmark
  • Cachalote (Director: Angelo Defanti), Sobretudo Produção (producer: Bárbara Defanti), Brazil
  • Kevlar Soul (Director: Maria Eriksson-Hecht), Zentropa Sweden (producer: Ronny Fritsche), Sweden

"Co-Pro Series" Projects 2022

For the eighth time, the Berlinale Co-Production Market invited producers, editors, distributors and other series financiers to pitches and meetings at “Co-Pro Series” on February 15 and 16.

Ten new, selected drama series projects were pitched and met with co-production and financing partners here.

Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2022

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • The Promised Land (Writers: Paula Eleod, Marcelo Chaparro & Emiliano Torres; Director: Emiliano Torres), Gaman Cine, Argentina
  • Nowheresville (Creators: Caroline B. Arnesen & Rebecca W. Kjellmann; Director: Rebecca W. Kjellmann), Hummelfilm, Norway
  • Belcanto (Creators: Mariano Di Nardo, Antonio Manca & Federico Fava; director: tba), Lucky Red, Italy
  • The Report (Writer: Ben von Rönne; Director: tba), Match Factory Productions, Germany
  • Winterland (Writers: Pauline Wolff & Jörgen Hjerdt; Director: tba), Nimbus Film, Denmark
  • This Is Not A Murder Mystery (Original idea: Matthias Lebeer & Christophe Dirickx; Writers: Christophe Dirickx & Paul Baeten; Directors: Hans Herbots & Matthias Lebeer), Panenka, Belgium
  • The Attachment Theory (Showrunner: Radovan Síbrt; Creators: Miro Šifra & Lucie Vaňková; Director: Olmo Omerzu), Pink, Czech Republic
  • You Are Obsolete (Creator: Steve Cochrane; Director: tbd), Sienna Films, Canada
  • Spin Control (Writer: Kaisa Pylkkänen; Director: Alli Haapasalo), Tuffi Films, Finland

Project selected in cooperation with Series Mania:

  • Picadero (Writers: Almudena Monzú & Mauricio Leiva Cock; Director: Isabel Coixet), Amor Y Lujo & Zeta Studios, Spain & Fidelio Films, Colombia

"Books at Berlinale" 2022

On February 14, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, in cooperation with Frankfurter Buchmesse, presented ten exceptional books particularly suitable for literary adaptation in "Books at Berlinale". At the live pitching event, which has been presenting new publications, bestsellers and award winners every year since 2006, film producers can get in touch with the film rights holders - renowned, internationally working publishers and literary agents. This year, the pitch was accessible online.

The following literary works are selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2022:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

  • The Riff-Raff (Monika Helfer, Germany), Carl Hanser Verlag / Sibylle Seidel Medienagentur, Germany
  • The Sound of the Jaguar's Roar (Micheliny Verunschk, Brazil), Companhia das Letras, Brazil
  • Mary (Anne Eekhout, Netherlands), De Bezige Bij, Netherlands
  • More Than I Love My Life (David Grossman, Israel), Deborah Harris Agency, Israel
  • The Granddaughter (Bernhard Schlink, Germany), Diogenes Verlag, Switzerland
  • Spanish Beauty (Esther García Llovet, Spain), Editorial Anagrama, Spain
  • Lack of Light (Nino Haratischwili, Georgia), Graf & Graf Literatur- und Medienagentur, Germany
  • The Lamplighters (Emma Stonex, United Kingdom), Madeleine Milburn Literary, TV & Film Agency, United Kingdomy
  • Impatients (Djaïli Amadou Amal, Cameroon), Mediatoon Audiovisual Rights, France
  • Wherever You Are (Khuê Phạm, Germany), Penguin Random House Verlagsgruppe, Germany