Pepa San Martin

Source: Manufactura de Peliculas

Pepa San Martin

The films selected for the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 22-26) have been revealed and top 50% by female directors in the official project selection for the first time.

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A total of 36 features from 34 countries will be showcased by producers seeking co-production partners through one-to-one meetings with distributors, financiers and sales agents.

For the official project selection, 21 projects with budgets ranging from €750,000 to €5m were selected from more than 300 submissions. With 11 projects by female directors, the proportion here has exceeded 50% for the first time.

These include Chilean director Pepa San Martín, whose drama Rara won the grand prix of the Generation Kplus international jury at the Berlinale in 2016.

Her new film, Happiness, is produced by Chile’s Manufactura de Películas and Argentina’s Aleph Cine. Paulina García, winner of Berlin’s Silver Bear for her performance in Sebastian Lelio’s Gloria in 2013, has been attached to star in the story of two lifelong friends, one of whom shares some serious news during a weekend retreat.

The market will also host the Berlinale Directors section, featuring three projects in the early stages of funding.

These include the latest from Romania’s Adina Pintilie, who won Berlin’s Golden Bear and best first feature with Touch Me Not in 2018. Her new film is relationship drama Death And The Maiden, which will be produced by Pintilie’s Bucharest-based Manekino Film.

Romania’s Radu Jude, who won the Silver Bear in 2015 with Aferim!, will present his new project Sleepwalkers as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express selection – having previously showcased the film at co-production event CineMart Rotterdam.

The remaining 10 feature will form the Talent Project Market selection, organised in cooperation with Berlinale Talents, and will see newcomer producers present their projects. A total of 166 submissions were received for that strand this year.

Official Project Selection

(in alphabetical order of the production companies):

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

Berlinale Directors projects

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

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express

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

Talent Project Market – Projects and Producer Talents

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

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