New films from Peter Webber, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Oliver Schmitz, Eran Kolirin.

A total of 39 features have been selected for Berlin’s co-production market (Feb 9-11).

Directors with work in the market include Peter Webber, Pernille Fischer Christensen, Oliver Schmitz, Eran Kolirin, Christos Georgiou, Erik Skjoldbjaerg and Nir Bergman.

All projects have 30% of their financing in place while budgets range from €700,000 to €6.5m.

This year’s Residency participants comprise Emir Baigazin, Alistair Banks Griffin, Bence Fliegauf, Sebastián Lelio, Elina Psykou and José Luis Valle. The participants will present new projects to potential partners at the co-production market.

The Talent Project Market will see ten new producers and directors primed for the international market. Ritesh Batra’s The Lunchbox featured last year, while Italian filmmaker Fabio Mollo’s Il Sud e Niente plays in this year’s Generation programme.

Five companies have been selected for the Company Matching programme and three more projects have been picked for the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express.

The Berlinale today also announced that 300 young film professionals from 79 Countries have been selected to participate in its Berlinale Talent strand, with mentors including Agnès Godard, Franz Lustig and Christopher Doyle.

Berlinale Talents will be represented for the first time at the European Film Market (EFM) with its own stand in the Martin-Gropius-Bau.

 

The official selection of projects for the Berlinale Co-Production Market 2013 (listed alphabetically by production company):

- The Smuggler (dir: Pål Sletaune), 4 ½ Fiksjon, Norway

- Afterlands (dir: Pall Grimsson), Alcina Pictures, Canada

- 18 Drops (dir: Oliver Schmitz), Bedlam Productions, UK

- Jambula Tree (dir: Wanuri Kahiu), Big World Cinema, South Africa

- The Last One (dir: Veiko Õunpuu), Bufo, Finland

- Good Manners (dir: Juliana Rojas & Marco Dutra), Dezenove Som e Imagens, Brazil

- In the Shade of the Trees (dir: Matías Rojas Valencia), Don Quijote Films, Chile

- Gingko (dir: Gábor Rohonyi & Mónika Mécs), Inforg-M&M Film, Hungary

- Family (dir: Veronica Kedar), Inosan Productions, Israel

- Happy Birthday (dir: Christos Georgiou), Lychnari Productions, Cyprus / Greece & Twenty Twenty Vision, Germany

- Grooms (dir: Arvin Chen), Making Film Productions, Hong Kong

- Kuessipan (dir: Myriam Verreault), Max Films, Canada

- 6.9 on the Richter Scale (dir: Nae Caranfil), Mobra Films, Romania

- I Want to Be Like You (dir: Konstantin Bojanov), Multfilm, Bulgaria & KinoElektron, France

- My Father’s Garden (dir: Ben Sombogaart), NL Film, Netherlands

- Astrid (dir: Pernille Fischer Christensen), Nordisk Film Production, Sweden / Denmark

- Pyromaniac (dir: Erik Skjoldbjærg), Pravda Film, Norway

- Lonely Girl (dir: Natasha Pincus), Second Sight Productions, Australia

- The Thin Yellow Line (dir: Celso García), Springall Pictures & Tequila Gang, Mexico

- Saving Neta (dir: Nir Bergman), United Channels Movies, Israel

 

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express:

- Let There Be Morning (dir: Eran Kolirin), Dori Media Paran, Israel

- Fresh (dir: Peter Webber), Full House, France

- United States of Love (dir: Tomasz Wasilewski), Mañana, Poland

 

Berlinale Residency projects:

- Operation: Baby (dir: José Luis Valle), Caverna Cine, Mexico

- Iguazú (dir: Sebastián Lelio), Fabula, Chile

- House of Isaura (dir: Bence Fliegauf), Fraktál Film, Hungary

- Oyster (dir: Alistair Banks Griffin), Influence Machine Productions, US

- Son of Sofia (dir: Elina Psykou), Heretic, Greece

- The Wounded Angel (dir: Emir Baigazin), Kazakhfilm, Kazakhstan

 

Talent Project Market (listed alphabetically by Talent):

- The Matchmaker, director Alina Abdullaeva, Azerbaijan

- A Yellow Bird, producer Fran Borgia, Singapore

- The Insect King, producer Bridget Callow-Wright, Australia

- Souvenir, director Bavo Defurne, Belgium

- The Garbage Helicopter, producer Andreas Emanuelsson, Sweden

- The German Cakemaker, director Ofir Paul Graizer, Germany / Israel

- Beasts, producer Pamela Hansson, UK-US

- The Swan, director Ása Hjörleifsdóttir, Iceland

- The Long Midnight of Barney Thomson, producer Kaleena Kiff, Canada / United Kingdom

- The Family, director Gustavo Rondón Córdova, Venezuela

 

Company Matching (listed alphabetically by production company):

- micro_scope, Canada

- Overdose Art, India

- Parts & Labor, US

- Razor Film, Germany

- Space Rocket Nation, Denmark

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