Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 8 -
10, 2015), 36 new feature film projects from 28 countries will be presented. In
addition, five internationally noted production companies will be introduced as
part of the exclusive "Company Matching" programme.
In
Berlin, these producers will get to know interested potential partners from the
participants' pool of 500 producers and financiers from around the world in
previously arranged individual meetings.
Of
the 331 submissions in total, 20 new feature film projects from all over the
globe were added to the official project selection. The projects are all being
developed by internationally experienced producers and have secured at least 30
percent of their budgets. The projects have budgets between one and 6.5 million
euros.
A
new addition to the programme is the "Berlinale Directors" section, with three
highly promising projects by directors whose previous films were Berlinale
programme selections in past years.
The
festival's goal with this section is to provide Berlinale filmmakers working on
exciting new projects with support in finding production partners. Though these
projects do not yet fulfil the
Berlinale Co-Production Market's
financing criteria, they have strong and clearly recognisable potential.
In
cooperation with the CineMart Rotterdam, three further projects were selected
for the "Rotterdam-Berlinale Express". These projects will participate at both
the CineMart and the
Berlinale Co-Production
Market.
At
the "Talent Project Market", a section organised in cooperation with
Berlinale Talents, ten newcomers to producing and directing will get a
taste of the international market. Their projects were selected from a total of
245 submissions and offer participants an opportunity for new
discoveries.
The
selected project directors include some who have already attended the Berlinale
in previous years. In the "Berlinale Directors" section, these are Avinash Arun
from India, who won the Crystal Bear (
Kplus) in 2014 for Killa (
The
Fort), Nana Ekvtimishvili and Simon Gross, whose Georgian-German debut
In Bloom began its highly successful festival run at the Berlinale, and
Ádám Császi from Hungary, whose film
Land of Storms attracted much
attention in last year's
Panorama section.
Ritesh
Batra, whose international box-office hit
The Lunchbox was presented at
the 2012 "Talent Project Market", is also returning this year with a new project
- this time in the official selection - along with Marcela Said from Chile,
whose documentary
El mocito screened in
Forum, and whose first
feature film
The Summer of Flying Fish was successfully matched with
partners at the 2012
Co-Production Market.
"Rotterdam-Berlinale
Express" includes new projects by Benjamin Naishtat, whose film
History of
Fear screened in last year's
Competition, and by the Ukrainian
director of
The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy, who has also had two
short films screened at the Berlinale.
Which
earlier
Berlinale Co-Production Market projects will have made it into
this year's festival programme remains to be seen. Of all the projects that have
passed the
Co-Production Market team's "market fitness check" in form
and content and then met co-producers, global marketers, TV reps, distributors,
promoters and financiers at the
Co-Production Market, over 190 have
been realised.
The
production companies participating in the "Company Matching" programme, and
additionally available for individual meeting requests by other participants,
hail from Ireland, Colombia, Luxembourg, the Netherlands and South Africa. The
focus of these meetings is not on individual, concrete projects, but on paving
the way for possible short-term or long-term cooperations through in-depth
exchanges on the structural level, or based on project slates by the five
selected companies.
The
Berlinale Co-Production Market main partners are the MDM -
Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and Creative Europe -
MEDIA.
The
Berlinale Co-Production Market is part of the
European Film
Market.
Once
again, the Berlin House of Representatives - directly across from the
European Film Market at Martin-Gropius-Bau - will serve as a
cooperation partner and the main venue.
Official
Berlinale Co-Production Market 2015 project
selection
(in
alphabetical order of production company):
-
Killing Jesus (D: Laura Mora), 64-A Films, Colombia & Motivo Films,
USA
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NY Gypsy (D: Ivaylo Markov), Agitprop, Bulgaria
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Swoon (D: Måns Mårlind & Björn Stein), Atmo,
Sweden
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Animal Race (D: Ernesto Solis), Bananeira Filmes,
Brazil
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Ugur (D: Ozan Açiktan), Bir Film, Turkey
-
The Black People (D: Jorge Pérez Solano), Chacal Filmes & Tirisia
Film, Mexico
-
Samouni Road (D: Stefano Savona), Dugong, Italy & Picofilms,
France
-
Like a Virgin (D: Catherine Shepherd), Fly Film,
UK
-
All the Pretty Little Horses (D: Michalis Konstantatos), Horsefly
Productions, Greece & Endorphine Production, Germany
-
Los Perros (D: Marcela Said), Jirafa, Chile & Cinema Defacto,
France
-
Civil Disobedience (D: Alejandro Fadel), La Unión de los Ríos,
Argentina
-
The Ash Lad: In the Hall of the Mountain King (D: Mikkel Sandemose),
Maipo Film, Norway
-
The Hero (D: Antoinette Beumer), Millstreet Films,
Netherlands
-
Live from Jerusalem (D: Oded Davidoff), MoviePlus Productions,
Israel
-
Photograph (D: Ritesh Batra), Poetic License Motion Pictures,
India
-
Trade (D: David Roddham), Roads Entertainment,
Ireland
-
3 Days in Quiberon (D: Emily Atef), Rohfilm,
Germany
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Damned Kids (D: Gonzalo Justiniano), Sahara Films Producciones,
Chile
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My Name is Lenny (D: Eva Sorhaug), Salon Pictures,
UK
-
In Front of Others (D: Oskar Jonasson), Truenorth,
Iceland
"Berlinale
Directors" Projects:
-
High Dive (D: Ádám Császi), Focus-Fox Studio,
Hungary
-
Sway with Me (D: Avinash Arun), Jar Pictures,
India
-
My Happy Family (D: Nana Ekvtimishvili, Simon Gross), Polare Film,
Georgia
"Rotterdam-Berlinale
Express":
-
The Miracle of the Sargasso Sea (D: Syllas Tzoumerkas), Homemade Films,
Greece
-
Rojo (D: Benjamin Naishtat), Pucará Cine,
Argentina
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Luxembourg (D: Myroslav Slaboshpytskiy), Tandem Production, Germany
& Garmata Films, Ukraine
"Talent
Project Market" (in alphabetical order of
talent):
-
The Secret Ingredient, producer Emilija Chochkova ,
Macedonia
-
One Thousand, producer Guillaume De La Boulaye,
France
-
Sam and the Angel, producer Galen Fletcher,
Canada
-
Biencuidao, producer Gema Juarez Allen, Argentina and director Abner
Benaim, Panama
-
Passed by Censor, director Serhat Karaaslan,
Turkey
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Sons of Sunday, director Rami Kodeih, Libanon
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Until the Way, director Davi Agrello Pretto,
Brazil
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Wonder Child, director Ingvild Søderlind, Norway
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Pontianak, producer Bee Thiam Tan, Singapore
-
Pomegranate Soup, producer Charlotte Walls, UK
Company
Matching (in alphabetical oder of company):
- Dv8
Films, Südafrika
-
Dynamo, Colombia
-
Element Pictures, Ireland
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Tarantula Luxembourg, Luxembourg
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Topkapi Films, Netherlands