Five new feature film projects from Lebanon, Brazil, Argentina, Turkey and Columbia have been selected by the Berlinale's World Cinema Fund (WCF) from 110 projects submitted from a total of 36 countries for production funding totalling $315,770 (Euros 200,000).

The projects supported including co-productions with the Berlin-based production house Niko Film, which had Emily Atef's The Stranger In Me in Cannes this year, and Cologne-based Pandora Film Produktion, producer of Tulpan and O'Horten.

The WCF supported the following projects with production funding:

Every Day Is a Holiday, dir: Dima El-Horr (Lebanon); prod: Orjouane Production; German co-prod: Niko Film

Filmefobia, dir: Kiko Goifman (Brazil); prod: Plateau Produções; German co-producer: Autentika Films

Medianeras, dir: Gustavo Taretto (Argentina); prod: Rizoma Films, Buenos Aires; German co-prod: Pandora Film Produktion

Pandora's Box, dir: Yesim Ustaoglu (Turkey); prod: Ustaoglu Film Production, Istanbul; German co-prod: The Match Factory

The Stoplight Society, dir: Ruben Mendoza (Colombia); prod: Dia Fragma Fábrica de peliculas - Film Factory

Since its founding, the WCF has received 820 submissions from 67 countries and granted production or distribution funding to 47 projects so far.

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