Only one African film project features in the 38 titles from 25 countries worldwide selected for the eighth Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs from 13 to 15 February. This is Tunisia’s Challatt of Tunis by Habib Attia which has been chosen for the Talent Project Market.
Twenty-four new feature film projects (chosen from a total of 352 entries) will be presented at the co-production market by internationally experienced producers who already have at least 30% of their financing in place. The projects all have budgets between one and twelve million euros.
In conjunction with CineMart Rotterdam, three other projects have been chosen for the “Rotterdam-Berlinale Express”; they will participate in both the CineMart and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
In cooperation with the Berlinale Talent Campus, eleven projects by newcomers have been selected from 270 additional entries for the “Talent Project Market”.
Here is the official selection of projects:
Love Isreal (dir: Julia von Heinz), 2Pilots Filmproduction, Germany
They Are All Dead (dir: Beatriz Sanchis), Avalon P.C., Spain
Saints (dir: Seyfi Teoman), Bulut Film, Turkey
Darkness by Day (dir: Martin Desalvo), Domenica Films, Argentina
The Woman Who Feared the Sun (dir: Javier Fuentes-Leon), Dynamo Producciones, Columbia; Neue Cameo Film, Germany & Elcalvo Films, Peru/USA
The Intriguing Art of Secrets (dir: Andy De Emmony), Element Pictures, Ireland
The Killing of Henry James (dir: Sylvain Archambault), Filmarto/BBR, Canada
Tove and the Mermaid (dir: Miikko Oikkonen), Fisher King Production, Finland
Wakolda (dir: Lucia Puenzo), Historias Cinematograficas, Argentina
The Way Home / La strada per casa (Dir: Bruno Oliviero), Invisibile Film, Italy
Balaton Submarine (dir: Orsi Nagypal), KMH Film, Hungary
A Green and Quiet River (dir: Alain Choquart), Le Bureau, France
Aurore (dir: Stephane Vuillet), Les Films Du Present, France
Headhunter (dir: Bastian Gunther), Lichtblick Media & Lichtblick Film, Germany
The 90 Minute War (dir: Eyal Halfon), Norma Productions, Israel
The Devil’s Pool (dir: James Lapine), Open City Films, USA & K5 Film, Germany
The Flying Man (dir: Kornel Mundruczo), Proton Cinema, Hungary
Broken (dir: Miika Soini), Public Films & Helsinki Filmi, Finland
Still Life (dir: Uberto Pasolini), Red Wave Films, United Kingdom
Watchtower (dir:: Pelin Esmer), Sinefilm, Turkey
Remainder (dir: Omer Fast), Tigerlily Films, United Kingdom
The Spider in the Web (dir: Eran Riklis), Topia Communications, Israel
Life According to Nino (dir: Urszula Antoniak), Waterland Film & Family Affair Films, Netherlands
2 Kidnappings (dir: Marcos Jorge), Zencrane Filmes & Migdal Filmes, Brazil
Rotterdam-Berlinale Express:
Loud (dir: Aneta Lesnikovska), AKA Film, Macedonia
We Are Dead (dir: Tobias Nolle), Hugofilm Productions, Switzerland
The Cyclops (dir: Jukka-Pekka Valkeapaa), Kinotar, Finland
Talent Project Market
(listed alphabetically by Talent):
Challatt of Tunis (prod: Habib Attia), Tunisia
Preservation (dir/prod: Nicole Brending), USA
The Babadook (prod: Kristina Ceyton), Australia/Germany
Youth (prod: Gal Greenspan), Israel
Brian (dir: Angela How), Singapore/USA
The Find (prod: Dimitri Klepatski), Russia
Greicekelly (dir: Rafael Lessa), Brazil
The South Is Nothing/Il Sud e niente (dir: Fabio Mollo), Italy
Woman of the Father (prod: Aleteia Selonk), Brazil
Bad Stock (dir: Rachel Tillotson), United Kingdom
The Here After (prod: Mariusz Wlodarski and dir: Magnus von Horn), Poland/Sweden
