New features from Palestinian filmmaker Muayad Alayan and German director Leonie Krippendorff are among those to be presented at the 20th Berliane Co-production Market (February 18 to 22), the first in-person edition since 2020.
The market will provide the opportunity for 33 projects from 26 countries to secure financing and get fired up as international co-productions in the next few years, with sales agents, broadcasters, funding bodies, streaming platforms, film distributors and other financing partners in attendance.
For the official project selection, 17 fiction feature projects with budgets between €600,000 and €5m and chosen from among 302 submissions will take part.
Alayan, whose credits include Berlinale premiere Love, Theft And Other Entanglements and upcoming feature A House In Jerusalem, is returning to Berlin with O Little Town Of Bethlehem, produced through his company PalCine Productions.
Krippendorff is returning to Berlin with her latest project Peeled Skin, after Cocoon opened the Generation sidebar at the Berlinale in 2020,
In the Berlinale Directors section, there are an additional three projects in the early stages of financing, whose directors – Caru Alves de Souza, María Sólrún, Maryam Moghadam and Behtash Sanaeeha – have previously shown successful films at the festival.
Phuttiphong Aroonpheng’s The Burning Giants and Thati Pele’s Brace Yourself are looking for partners at both CineMart Rotterdam and the Berlinale Co-Production Market as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express.
New in 2023 is the World Cinema Market section, in cooperation with the Berlinale World Cinema Fund (WCF). WCF- backed project Los Ángeles by directors and visual artists Joaquin Cociña and Cristóbal León from Chile will be presented in this section.
“Things will certainly be colourful and varied at our 20th anniversary,” said Martina Bleis, director of the Berlinale Co-Production Market. “Coming-of-age at all ages, film noir, horror, absurd comedies and wild genre mixes on queer topics, as well as a powerful dose of feminism are included in the selection, and we hope to contribute successfully to these new films being seen in cinemas soon.
In the 20 years since it began, over 340 films have already been made from the projects of the highly successful Berlinale Co-Production Market, including the last two winners of the Golden Bear, Alcarràs (2022) and Bad Luck Banging Or Loony Porn (2021), plus Oscar winners such as A Fantastic Woman by Sebastián Lelio and Jojo Rabbit by Taika Waititi.
Berlinale Co-Production Market 2023
Official Project Selection
The Blindsight (Ukr) dir. Ruslan Batytskyi, prod. 2Brave Productions
Amoeba (Sing) dir. Siyou Tan, prod. Akanga Film Asia
Roger On The Loose (Arg) dir. Natalia Smirnoff, prod. Año Cero
Iván & Hadoum (Sp) dir. Ian de la Rosa, Avalon PC,
God Bless You (Bra) dir. Gustavo Pizzi, prods. Bubbles Project, Baleia Filmes
Hasse (Belg) dir. Jan Matthys, prod. Bulletproof Cupid
Peeled Skin (Ger) dir. Leonie Krippendorff, prod. Kineo Filmproduktion
Pastoral Pathways (Fr-Ger-Turkey) dir. Ahmet Necdet Çupur, prods. Les Films du Poisson, NiKo Film, Liman Film
Butterfly (Nor) dir. Itonje Søimer Guttormsen, prod. Mer Film
Skiff (Bel) dir. Cecilia Verheyden), Mirage, Belgium
Tales From The Golden Age 3 (Rom-Ger) dir. Ioana Uricaru, prods. Mobra Films, 42 Film
Ivy (Port) dir. Catarina Mourão, prod. O Som e a Fúria
O Little Town Of Bethlehem (Palestine) dir. Muayad Alayan, prod. PalCine Productions,
I’ll Be Gone In June (Ger) dir. Katharina Rivilis, prod. Road Movies,
Cheaper Than Stealing (Sp-Fr) dir. Pedro Collantes, prods. Sideral Cinema (Elamedia Studios), Mizar Films
Mārama (NZ) dir. Taratoa Stappard, prods Sweetshop and Green
Everything That’s Wrong With You (Slovenia) dir. Urša Menart, prod. Vertigo
Berlinale Directors Projects
Buran (Swe) dirs. Maryam Moghaddam, Behtash Sanaeeha, prod. Hobab
Lonely Hearts (Bra) dir. Caru Alves de Souza), prod. Manjericão Filmes
Night Sweat (Ger) dir. Maria Solrun, prod. Wunderlust
World Cinema Market Projects
Los Ángeles (Chile-Ger) dirs. Joaquin Cociña, Cristóbal León, prod. Globo Rojo Films, Autentika Films
Rotterdam-Berlinale Express
The Burning Giants (Thai-Sing) dir. Phuttiphong Aroonpheng, prods. Diversion, 13 Little Pictures
Brace Yourself (S Afr) dir. Thati Pele, prod. Urucu
Talent Project Market Projects and Selected Producer Talents
Yen And Allie (Tai) dir. Tom Shu-Yu Lin, prod. Clifford Miu, Bering Pictures
God And The Devil’s Cumbia (Mex) dir. Carlos Lenin, prod. Daniel Loustaunau, Colectivo Colmena
Bekes (Turkey) dir. Mahsum Taskin, prod. Vildan Ersen, Gataki Films
Baby (Greece) dir. Nikos Kyritsis, prod. Kyveli Short, Homemade Films
Burning Kingdom (Col) dir. Catalina Arroyave Restrepo, prod. Jaime Guerrero Naudin, Rara Cine
Our Love (Swe) dirs. Lia Hietala, Hannah Reinikainen), prod. Melissa Lindgren, Story AB
The Love Pill (Swe), dir. Naures Sager, prod. Michael Detlef Petersen, The Uneven
Animal (Czech), dir. Milada Těšitelová, prod. Julie Žáčková, Unit and Sofa
Cost Of Living (Bra) dir. Moara Passoni, prod. Sofia Geld, Uvaia Filmes
Hooped (Lux) dir. Adolf El Assal, prod. Adolf El Assal, Wady Films
Company Matching Programme
Amour Fou Vienna/ Luxembourg (Austria-Lux)
Amrion Production (Est)
Epicmedia (Phil)
ForeFilms (Ukr)
Quijote Films (Chile)
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