) is gearing up for its upcoming online edition, for which it has announced 35 promising feature film projects from 25 countries selected for its co-production market.Berlinale
Co-Production Market selection comprises works in various stages from global helmers, most of whom are known on the fest circuit while several are Berlin regulars, such as Palestinian helmer Annemarie Jacir, who was on the Berlin jury last year. The prolific Jacir will be presenting “The Oblivion Theory”; Turkish filmmaker Yeşim Ustaoğlu, who broke out in Berlin, will be pitching her new drama “Left Over”; Oscar-nominated Polish director Jan Komasa will unveil “Shine of the Sun”; while New York-based Filipina filmmaker Isabel Sandoval, who made a splash with transgender drama “Lingua Franca,” will talk up her follow-up feature “Tropical Gothic.
Other standouts comprise new projects by Argentina’s Benjamín Naishtat, who is known for “Rojo” and has teamed up with Maria Alché on “Puan”; Israel’s Elite Zexer who is seeking partners for “Two Peas in a Pod,” and Canada’s Bruce McDonald who has “Vic & Doc & Duke go to the Store” in the works. Projects by 14 female and 13 male directors make up the 25 pics that constitute the selection’s core, some of which are co-directed.The film’s producers will meet with international co-producers, world sales agents, broadcasters, streaming platforms, distributors, representatives of public funds and financiers from all over the world in more than 1,000 individual meetings organized in advance, according to an EFM statement.
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