The Berlin Film Festival has unveiled the 34 projects, hailing from 27 countries and selected from 318 submissions, that will be showcased at its Berlinale Co-Production Market, running from February 17 to 21.
The 18 projects in the official selection include upcoming works from Ukrainian directors Kateryna Gornostai and Antonio Lukich as well as Italian filmmaker Andrea Pallaoro, Serb director and actor Mirjana Karanović and Chinese-Japanese directing duo Huang Ji and Ryuji Otsuka.
The Official Selection projects are already partly financed and have budgets between 600,000 and five million euros. The Berlinale Directors section showcasing new projects from festival habitués in the early funding stages includes Sally Potter’s upcoming production Alma about a family on an expedition scatter the ashes of an archaeologist.
Two projects by Andreas Fontana and Fradique have also been selected as part of the Rotterdam-Berlinale Express initiative, which see them participate at both CineMart Rotterdam and the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
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