Sally Potter, Burak Çevik & Andrea Pallaoro Projects Head To Berlinale Co-Production Market

Melanie Goodfellow
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The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the 34 projects, hailing from 27 countries and selected from 318 submissions, that will be showcased at its Berlinale Co-Production Market, running from February 17 to 21. (scroll down for full list)

The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai (Stop-Zemila) and Antonio Lukich (Luxembourg, Luxembourg) as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro (Monica), Turkey’s Burak Çevik (Hesitation Wound), Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović (A Good Wife) and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka (Stonewalling).

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The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros.

The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition to scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.

Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative, which will see them participate at both CineMart Rotterdam and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

A hybrid project combining documentary and fiction film, Zone | Myths by Daria Yurkevich, will be presented in the World Cinema Market section in cooperation with the Berlinale World Cinema Fund.

Berlinale Co-Production Market head Martina Bleis said the projects explored a range of contemporary topics such as home and migration; parenthood and the fear of commitment as well as political and social conflicts.

“Many topics are reflected in a number of projects with diverse approaches. Current political conflicts are sometimes examined through the lens of the past or alternatively, in visions of the future,” she said.

The festival also unveiled the selection for the Talent Project Market, organised in cooperation with Berlinale Talents.

It features ten projects from producers still in the first decade of their careers which were selected from 171 submissions.

To date, over 360 projects showcased in the Berlinale Co-Production Market have come to fruition including Golden Bear winners 20,000 Species of Bees (2023), Alcarràs (2022), and Bad Luck Banging or Loony Porn (2021) as well as high-profile festival titles such as The Siren, Puan, Holly, Toll, Shame on Dry Land and Lost Country.

Full list of Berlinale Co-Production Market

  • The Side Effects of Trusting Life (director: Ahmad Ghossein), Abbout Productions, Lebanon

  • A Woman Builds (directors: Huang Ji & Ryuji Otsuka), Akanga Film Asia, Singapore & YGP-Film, Japan & Island X Pictures, Taiwan

  • Next Apparition (director: Julieta Amalric), Cimarrón Cine, Argentina / Uruguay

  • My Hands (director: Eoin Heaney), Feline Films Limited, Ireland

  • Screaming Girl (director: Antonio Lukich), ForeFilms, Ukraine

  • To the Wedding (director: Andrea Pallaoro), Good Question Media, Canada

  • Idda’s Breath (director: Irene Dionisio), Kino Produzioni, Italy

  • Divorce During the War (director: Andrius Blaževičius), M-Films, Lithuania

  • Last Trip (director: Ziad Kalthoum), Mayana Films, Germany

  • Antonivka (director: Kateryna Gornostai), Moon Man, Ukraine & Just a Moment, Lithuania

  • Marriage by Abduction (director: Sophia Mocorrea), NiKo Film, Germany

  • Ich bin Marika (director: Hajni Kis), Proton Cinema, Hungary

  • To Die on Your Feet (director: María Paz González), Quijote Films, Chile

  • Remains of Life (director: Sevda Shishmanova), Red Carpet, Bulgaria

  • Folk Play (director: Mirjana Karanović), This and That Productions, Serbia

  • Fragments of This Beauty (director: Burak Çevik), Vayka Film, Turkey & Fol Films, Turkey

  • Burnings (director: Jerry Carlsson), Verket Produktion, Sweden

  • The Girl with the Leica (director: Alina Marazzi), Vivo Film, Italy

Berlinale Directors Projects:

  • Alma (director: Sally Potter), Adventure Pictures, United Kingdom & Sixteen Films, United Kingdom

  • Twist the Rabbit (director: Mira Fornay), Cineart, Czech Republic & Mirafox, Slovak Republic

  • Londoner (director: Babatunde Apalowo), Polymath Pictures, Nigeria, Cato Street Productions, United Kingdom & Sixteen Films, United Kingdom

World Cinema Market Project:

  • Zone | Myths (director: Daria Yurkevich), Doppelplusultra Filmproduktion, Germany

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express:

  • The Diplomats (director: Andreas Fontana), Alina film, Switzerland

  • Hold Time for Me (director: Fradique), Seera Films, Germany

Talent Project Market Projects and Selected Producer Talents
(in alphabetical order of production companies):

  • Eau de Colony (director: Veronica Spedicati), Alcor (producer: Giorgio Gucci), Italy

  • So the Lovers Could Come Out Again (director: George Peter Barbari), Btrswt Pictures (producer: Christelle Younes), Lebanon

  • Silence Sometimes (director: Álvaro Robles), Cartuna (producer: Mireia Vilanova), USA & Spain

  • Bad Gays (director: Loïc Hobi), Cloud Fog Haze Pictures (producer: Michael Graf), Switzerland

  • Pogana (director: David Kapac), Eclectica (producer: Rea Rajčić), Croatia

  • The Numbered Days (director: Agustina San Martín), Mil Monos (producer: Maximiliano Monzon), Argentina & Spain

  • Uptight Ass (director: Matija Gluščević), Naked (producer: Čarna Vučinić), Serbia

  • Astana Internet Stars (director: Assel Aushakimova), Risk Pictures (producer: Assel Aushakimova), Kazakhstan

  • More than a Hug (director: Christian Zetterberg), Snowcloud (producer: Liselotte Persson), Sweden

  • Little Lying Wild (director: Samantha Aldana), Valerie Steinberg Productions (producer: Valerie Steinberg), USA & Belize

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