Sally Potter, Mira Fornay Films Among 34 Projects Being Presented at Berlinale Co-Production Market
variety.comLeo Barraclough International Features Editor The Berlin Film Festival, which runs Feb. 15-25, has revealed the lineup of its Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Producers of 34 film projects from 27 countries will be pitching to potential financing and co-production partners at the 21st Berlinale Co-Production Market, which runs Feb.
17-21. Seventeen projects are directed by women. There were 318 submissions, a slight increase from last year. Eighteen of the projects are already partly financed with budgets ranging between Euros 600,000 ($656,000) and Euros 5 million ($5.47 million).
Among the directors whose new works are likely to spark interest are Ukrainian filmmakers Kateryna Gornostai, who won a Crystal Bear for “Stop-Zemlia” in 2021, and Antonio Lukich, the director of “Luxembourg, Luxembourg,” which played in Venice in 2022, Italy’s Andrea Pallaoro, Serbian director and actor Mirjana Karanović, and the Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
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