Project Selection - Berlinale Co-Production Market

Official Feature Project Selection 2026

(in alphabetical order of production company):

  • - The Taste of Salt (dir: Deepak Rauniyar), Film and Music Entertainment, United Kingdom & Aadi Films, Nepal
  • - Cura Sana (dir: Lucía G. Romero), Filmax, Spain
  • - Lotus Feet (dir: Amanda Nell Eu), Ghost Grrrl Pictures, Malaysia
  • - riot/girl (dir: Arman T. Riahi), Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices, Austria & Les Contes Modernes, France
  • - Manatee (dir: Anna Roller), kalekone film, Germany & Totem Atelier, France
  • - The Talas Affair (dir: Ivan Grbovic), micro_scope, Canada
  • - Feral (dir: Nihaarika Negi), Moonweave Films, India & Mayana Films, Germany
  • - The Black Goat (dir: Eduardo Casanova), Morena Films, Spain
  • - Mum is in Puberty (dir: Ami-Ro Sköld), Onoma Productions, Sweden
  • - People Still Die of Love (dir: Fernando Guzzoni), Oro Films, Chile & Hea Sas, Colombia
  • - All in My Family (dir: Hao Wu), Q&A Entertainment, United States
  • - Nativity (dir: Francisca Alegría), Quijote Films, Chile
  • - Mercury Child (dir: Leonie Krippendorff), Razor Film Produktion, Germany
  • - The Transmigration of Bodies (dir: Alonso Ruizpalacios), Saltalaliebre, Mexico
  • - Karmic Knot (dir: Signe Baumane), Studio Locomotive, Latvia & Fabian&Fred, Germany
  • - Sylvia (dir: Aida Begic), This and That Productions, Serbia
  • - Life is Yours (dir: Emma Kawawada), Toei Company, Japan
  • - Il Dominio (dir: Klaudia Reynicke), Turnus Film, Switzerland
  • - Black As Snow (dir: Farhad Delaram), Unité, France

"Berlinale Directors" projects:

  • - Liberations (dir: Laurynas Bareisa), afterschool production, Lithuania
  • - The Vacation (dir: Dénes Nagy), Campfilm, Hungary & Films de Force Majeure, France
  • - The Last Frontier (dir: Rodrigo Moreno), Wanka Cine, Argentina & Les Films Fauves, Luxembourg

World Cinema Market project:

  • - Blue Card (dir: Mohammed Alomda), Station Films, Sudan & Mayana Films, Germany

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express:

  • - Beirut Baby (dir: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige), Abbout Productions, Lebanon & Haut et Court, France
  • - The Dispute (dir: Andrea Ellsworth & Kasey Elise Walker), Felix Culpa, United States

Talent Project Market:

  • - The Most Romantic Man in the World (dir: Simon Jaquemet), 8horses, Switzerland
  • - Fabric of Grief (dir: Samantha Moore), Animate Projects, UK
  • - Fear Zone (dir: Alina Simone), Cinemaria, USA
  • - Apnea (dir: Lô Politi), Enquadramento Produções, Brazil
  • - Watch It Burn (dir: Makbul Mubarak), KawanKawan Media, Indonesia
  • - Claude (dir: Narcisse Wandji), Les Films d'Ebene, Cameroon
  • - Porto Alegre (dir: Alvaro Gago), Ringo Media, Spain
  • - Yesterday I Will Love You (dir: Guillermo Benet), Solita Films, Spain
  • - Miss Pandora (dir: Jan Forsström), Tekele Productions, Finland
  • - Acts of Kindness (dir: Ellen Ugelstad), Twentyone Pictures & Mantra Film, Norway

Company Matching Programme:

  • - 2Brave Productions, Ukraine
  • - Bubbles Project, Brazil
  • - Elastica, Spain
  • - Kino Produzioni, Italy
  • - X Filme Creative Pool, Germany

Selected Projects for “Co-Pro Series” 2026

(in alphabetical order of production company):

- Gold (creators: Christian Wehrlin, Pascal Glatz; writers: Mariama Djité, Jessica Hagan; director: tba), Contrast Film, Switzerland

- Robbery, Beating and Death (writers/directors: Marcel Borràs, Nao Albet), Funicular Films, Spain

- The Granddaughter (writers: Annika Pinske, Jacob Hauptmann; director: İlker Çatak), if… Productions, Germany & Trimafilm, Germany

- Jomanda! (writer: Thomas van der Ree; director: Joram Lürsen), Lemming Film, Netherlands & Lemming Film Belgium

- Mugre Rosa (writer: Gerardo Gatica; writers/co-creators: Manuel Alcalá, Javier Peñalosa; director: Alonso Ruizpalacios), Panorama, Mexico

- A Phone Rings in the Middle of the Night (writer/director: Mikel Cee Karlsson), Plattform Produktion, Sweden

- Hedgehogs in the Haze (creators/writers: Džana Pinjo, Ermin Bravo; director: Danis Tanović, Nermin Hamzagić), Realstage, Bosnia and Herzegovina

- In My Secret Life (creator/writer: Jóhann Ævar Grímsson; director: Hafsteinn Gunnar Sigurðsson), Sagafilm, Iceland

- Angelmaker (creator/director: Cristina Groșan; writers: Cristina Groșan, Loïc Barrère, Leana Jalukse), Tangaj Production, Romania

In cooperation with Series Mania:

- Antiparos (creator/writer: George O’Neill-Zafeiropoulos; creator/writer/director: Alexandros Tsilifonis), Tanweer Productions, Greece & Ginger Film Flanders, Belgium & Volteo Media, UK

The following literary works are selected for “Books at Berlinale” 2026:

(in alphabetical order of presenting companies)

- “On the Calculation of Volume” / “Om udregning af rumfang” (Author: Solvej Balle, Denmark), Copenhagen Literary Agency, Denmark

- “Night at the Heart” / “La nuit au cœur” (Author: Nathacha Appanah, Mauritius/France), Gallimard, France

- “Oberammergau” (Author: Robert Löhr, Germany), Graf & Graf Literatur- und Medienagentur, Germany

- “Dependency” / “Gift” (Author: Tove Ditlevsen, Denmark), Gyldendal Group Agency, Denmark

- “Still Born” / “La hija única” (Author: Guadalupe Nettel, Mexico), Indent Literary Agency, USA

- “To Deliver” / ”Liefern” (Author: Tomer Gardi, Israel), Klett-Cotta Verlag, Germany

- “A Slight Loss of Loneliness” / “Nepatrná ztráta osamělosti” (Author: Eli Beneš, Czech Republic), Prague Literary Agency, Czech Republic

- “Girl in an Odd City” / “Kuai chen shao nu” (Author: Kiki Liu, Taiwan), Sense Creative Management Ltd., Taiwan

- “Yuan Huan’s Phone Booth” / “Yuan Huan'ın Kulübesi” (Author: Miyase Sertbarut, Turkey), Silva Literary Agency, Turkey

- “The Gift” / “Het geschenk” (Author: Gaea Schoeters, Belgium), Singel Uitgeverijen, Netherlands

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