Francisca Alegría, Alonso Ruizpalacios, Klaudia Reynicke, Ivan Grbovic and Amanda Nell Eu are among the filmmakers who’ll be setting up shop for the upcoming Berlinale Co-Production Market. The project have coin are will be looking for more funds from international partners and will be competing for some euros with various development prizes.
Following in her 2022 Sundance gem The Cow Who Sang a Song Into the Future, Chilean filmmaker Francisca Alegría has Nativity (read news) in the works. Another Sundance alumni in Reinas filmmaker Klaudia Reynicke has Il Dominio in the works. This will likely be set in her native Switzerland. Mexican filmmaker Alonso Ruizpalacios who last gave us La Cocina now has The Transmigration of Bodies on the stove. Amanda Nell Eu of Cannes Critics’ Week favorite Tiger Stripes now has Lotus Feet on the radar. Canadian filmmaker Ivan Grbovic (Drunken Birds) will next be venturing along with The Talas Affair. Here are all the selected projects:
Official Feature Project Selection 2026
– The Taste of Salt (dir: Deepak Rauniyar), Film and Music Entertainment, United Kingdom & Aadi Films, Nepal
– Cura Sana (dir: Lucía G. Romero), Filmax, Spain
– Lotus Feet (dir: Amanda Nell Eu), Ghost Grrrl Pictures, Malaysia
– riot/girl (dir: Arman T. Riahi), Golden Girls Filmproduktion & Filmservices, Austria & Les Contes Modernes, France
– Manatee (dir: Anna Roller), kalekone film, Germany & Totem Atelier, France
– The Talas Affair (dir: Ivan Grbovic), micro_scope, Canada
– Feral (dir: Nihaarika Negi), Moonweave Films, India & Mayana Films, Germany
– The Black Goat (dir: Eduardo Casanova), Morena Films, Spain
– Mum is in Puberty (dir: Ami-Ro Sköld), Onoma Productions, Sweden
– People Still Die of Love (dir: Fernando Guzzoni), Oro Films, Chile & Hea Sas, Colombia
– All in My Family (dir: Hao Wu), Q&A Entertainment, United States
– Nativity (dir: Francisca Alegría), Quijote Films, Chile
– Mercury Child (dir: Leonie Krippendorff), Razor Film Produktion, Germany
– The Transmigration of Bodies (dir: Alonso Ruizpalacios), Saltalaliebre, Mexico
– Karmic Knot (dir: Signe Baumane), Studio Locomotive, Latvia & Fabian&Fred, Germany
– Sylvia (dir: Aida Begic), This and That Productions, Serbia
– Life is Yours (dir: Emma Kawawada), Toei Company, Japan
– Il Dominio (dir: Klaudia Reynicke), Turnus Film, Switzerland
– Black As Snow (dir: Farhad Delaram), Unité, France
“Berlinale Directors” projects:
– Liberations (dir: Laurynas Bareisa), afterschool production, Lithuania
– The Vacation (dir: Dénes Nagy), Campfilm, Hungary & Films de Force Majeure, France
– The Last Frontier (dir: Rodrigo Moreno), Wanka Cine, Argentina & Les Films Fauves, Luxembourg
World Cinema Market project:
– Blue Card (dir: Mohammed Alomda), Station Films, Sudan & Mayana Films, Germany
Rotterdam-Berlinale Express:
– Beirut Baby (dir: Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige), Abbout Productions, Lebanon & Haut et Court, France
– The Dispute (dir: Andrea Ellsworth & Kasey Elise Walker), Felix Culpa, United States
Talent Project Market:
– The Most Romantic Man in the World (dir: Simon Jaquemet), 8horses, Switzerland
– Fabric of Grief (dir: Samantha Moore), Animate Projects, UK
– Fear Zone (dir: Alina Simone), Cinemaria, USA
– Apnea (dir: Lô Politi), Enquadramento Produções, Brazil
– Watch It Burn (dir: Makbul Mubarak), KawanKawan Media, Indonesia
– Claude (dir: Narcisse Wandji), Les Films d’Ebene, Cameroon
– Porto Alegre (dir: Alvaro Gago), Ringo Media, Spain
– Yesterday I Will Love You (dir: Guillermo Benet), Solita Films, Spain
– Miss Pandora (dir: Jan Forsström), Tekele Productions, Finland
– Acts of Kindness (dir: Ellen Ugelstad), Twentyone Pictures & Mantra Film, Norway
Company Matching Programme:
– 2Brave Productions, Ukraine
– Bubbles Project, Brazil
– Elastica, Spain
– Kino Produzioni, Italy
– X Filme Creative Pool, Germany
