Five cash prizes and one in-kind award have been presented to selected feature film projects at the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
The Eurimages Co-production Development Award, endowed with €20,000, went to producers from Cinédokké and Okofilm Productions from Switzerland for their project Ibicaba—Visions of Paradise. The jury members for the award this year were funding representative Eleni Chandrinou (National Representative of Greece to Eurimages), distributor Øistein Refseth (Mer Film, Norway) and producer Labina Mitevska (Sisters and Brother Mitevski, North Macedonia).
An additional prize with the same endowment was donated by Eurimages for the Eurimages Special Co-production Development Award. It was awarded to Ukrainian company Tabor, represented by producer Daria Zakharova, for the project The Earth is Flat—I Flew Around and Saw It by Maksym Nakonechnyi.
The first-ever Gen Z Audience Award, endowed with €5,000, went to 30 Days of Summer by producer Aleksandra Kostina (Bosonfilm) from Ukraine. The jury was made up of five film students from German and French film universities: Billy Betulius, Charbel Habib, Constanza Schmidt, Juliette Bultel and Yusuf Celik. The award is sponsored by the Franco-German Youth Office (FGYO) and is given to a feature film project that particularly appeals to cinemagoers aged between 20 and 28.
The VFF Talent Highlight Award, worth €10,000, supports a new project from the Talent Project Market, which is organized by the Berlinale Co-Production Market in cooperation with Berlinale Talents. This year, the winning project was March 14th, which was pitched by producer Laura Egidos Plaja (Contraria Media, Spain). Nomination prizes of €1,000 went to producer Alice Bloch (Marianne Productions) from France and producer Julia Alves (Quarta-feira Filmes) from Brazil.
The ARTEKino International Award 2025, endowed with €6,000, went to Dreamgirl by Kaan Müjdeci, produced by Tato Film and Asteros Film (Turkey). ARTE awards the prize to an artistically outstanding project from the Berlinale Co-Production Market.
Lastly, the World Cinema Fund (WCF) Audience Strategies Award was given to a Berlinale Co-Production Market project from a WCF-funding country. The producers of Abbout Productions from Lebanon and director Wissam Tanios will receive consultations on optimizing the audience and communication strategies of their film project The Sun Sees Everything.
Throughout the 22nd Berlinale Co-Production Market, the producers of the 35 selected feature film projects have met with co-producers and financiers. More than 1,500 individual meetings with potential suitable partners for the 600-plus participants were planned and coordinated in advance.
Ten books for adaptations and ten new series projects have also been selected and are the focus of the Books at Berlinale and Co-Pro Series pitch events.
More than 390 films and around 25 series that were looking for partners at the Berlinale Co-Production Market in previous years have now been completed.
