Feb 17, 2025
Promising Feature Films for the Coming Years: These Projects were Awarded at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in 2025

Five cash prizes and one in-kind award were awarded to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market (February 15 to 19) on Sunday and Monday.

The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, endowed with 20,000 euros, went to the producers of Cinédokké & Okofilm Productions from Switzerland for their project Ibicaba - Visions of Paradise (director: Andrea Štaka). With this award, the European film funding organisation Eurimages supports the development of the project. This year’s jury members were funding representative Eleni Chandrinou (National Representative of Greece to Eurimages), distributor Øistein Refseth (Mer Film, Norway) and producer Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski, North Macedonia).

An additional prize with the same endowment was donated by Eurimages to support a particularly promising Ukrainian project: the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award. It went to the Ukrainian company Tabor, represented by producer Daria Zakharova, for the project The Earth Is Flat – I Flew Around and Saw It by Maksym Nakonechnyi.

The first-ever Gen Z Audience Award, endowed with 5,000 euros, goes to the project 30 Days of Summer by director Anastasiia Solonevych and producer Aleksandra Kostina (Bosonfilm) from Ukraine. The jury was made up of five film students from German and French film universities: Billy Betulius, Charbel Habib, Constanza Schmidt, Juliette Bultel and Yusuf Celik. Sponsored by the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO), the prize is awarded to a feature film project that particularly appeals to young cinema-goers aged between 20 and 28.

With the VFF Talent Highlight Award, worth 10,000 euros, the VFF – Verwertungsgesellschaft der Film- und Fernsehproduzenten supports a promising new project from the Talent Project Market, which is organised by the Berlinale Co-Production Market in cooperation with Berlinale Talents. This year, the winning project was March 14th (director: Alberto Gross Molo), which was pitched by producer Laura Egidos Plaja (Contraria Media, Spain). Nomination prizes of 1,000 euros went to producer Alice Bloch (Marianne Productions) from France and producer Julia Alves (Quarta-feira Filmes) from Brazil.

The ARTEKino International Award 2025 goes to Dreamgirl by Kaan Müjdeci, produced by Tato Film & Asteros Film (Turkey). ARTE awards this prize, which is endowed with 6,000 euros, to an artistically outstanding project from the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

For the third time, the World Cinema Fund Audience Strategies Award was given to a Berlinale Co-Production Market project from a WCF-funding country. The producers of Abbout Productions from Lebanon and director Wissam Tanios will receive extensive consultations on optimising the audience and communication strategies of their film project The Sun Sees Everything.

At the 22nd Berlinale Co-Production Market, the producers of the 35 selected feature film projects have met with co-producers and financiers. More than 1,500 individual meetings with potentially suitable partners for the 600+ participants were planned and coordinated in advance.

Ten books for adaptations and ten new series projects have also been selected. They are the focus of the Books at Berlinale and Co-Pro Series pitch events.

More than 390 films and around 25 series that were looking for partners at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in previous years have now been completed.

Two exciting films that were presented at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in previous years are screening at this year’s Berlinale: Kein Tier. So Wild. (No Beast. So Fierce.) by Burhan Qurbani in Berlinale Special and Ato Noturno (Night Stage) by Marcio Reolon and Filipe Matzembacher in Panorama.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is part of Berlinale Pro*, which unites the European Film Market, the Berlinale Co-Production Market, Berlinale Talents and the World Cinema Fund. Berlinale Pro* is the festival’s full-circle industry infrastructure that serves the global film industry as incubator, enhancer and supporter in all stages of film development, production, sales and distribution.

The Berlinale Co-Production Market is supported by MDM - Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung and the Creative Europe - MEDIA Programme of the European Union, as well as the FFA - German Federal Film Board.

Further information can be found on the website of the Berlinale Co-Production Market.

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February 17, 2025