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MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN wins Best Documentary at the BAFTA Awards

BERLIN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

Prizes of the International Jury

  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Golden Bear of the 76th Berlinale
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Perspectives

  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak received a Special Mention (Coup de Coeur) in Perspectives

Panorama Audience Awards

  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Audience Award (Fiction) in Panorama
  • TRACES by Aisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Wojcik, EAVE+ graduate Violetta Kaminska won the Audience Award (Documentary) in Panorama
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo won the First Runner-up award in Panorama

Generation Competition

  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation Kplus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus
  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: EAVE graduates Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr received a Special Mention
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation 14plus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation 14plus
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia received a Special Mention

Teddy Awards

  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film
  • TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte won the Jury Award

FIPRESCI Award

  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, co-producers: EAVE, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Agustina Chiarino, EAVE+ graduate Fernando Epstein won the FIPRESCI prize in Panorama

Ecumenical Jury Award

  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray won the Ecumenical Jury Award in Forum

Other Awards

  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Heiner Carow Prize and the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Crăciun won the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award

Berlinale Co-Production Market

  • LOTUS FEET by Amanda Nell Eu, producer: TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling received the ARTEKino International Award
  • EAVE project THE MOST ROMANTIC MAN IN THE WORLD by Simon Jaquemet, producer: EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara received the VFF Talent Highlight Award
  • Nomination Awards: EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara (KawanKawan Media, Indonesia) and EAVE graduate Gary Cranner (Mantra Film, Norway)

Berlinale Talents

  • EAVE graduate Tapiwa Chipfupa (Ambidextrous Pictures, Zimbabwe) received the main prize of the Berlinale Talents Mastercard Enablement Programme for creating the AVEL (Audiovisual Entrepreneurs Laboratory) Producer’s Lab in Zimbabwe, designed to impart critical skills to emerging producers in a way that contributes to the building of the local film industry and continental film economy.

www.berlinale.de

 

INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL ROTTERDAM

CineMart

  • DAUGHTERS OF THE SEA by Martika Ramirez Escobar, producer: EAVE graduate Alba Sotorra won the Eurimages New Lab: Innovation Award
  • LFD HOPE by Joshua Loftin, producer: EAVE graduate Patricia d’Intino won the Eurimages New Lab: Outreach Award
  • THE POET’S SON by Nicolas Graux, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phylpo won the ArteKino International Award
  • PALE FACES by Chantel Clark, producers: EAVE graduate and Dutch National Coordinator Frank Hoeve, EAVE graduate Cait Pansegrouw won the Filmmore Post-production Award
  • MARINA by Laís Santos Araújo, Pethrus Tibúrcio, producer: PUENTES graduate Arturo Yepez won the HBF Empowerment Award

https://iffr.com/nl/

 

SUNDANCE FILM FESTIVAL

  • EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland won the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize
  • SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar won the World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award
  • FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena won the World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision
  • HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte won the World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award
  • BIRDS OF WAR by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact
  • EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry won the World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance
  • HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Konstantina Stavrianou wins World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award

https://festival.sundance.org

 

SANTA BARBARA INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL

  • VERSAILLES by Andres Clariond, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis won the Nueva Vision Award for Spain/Latin America Cinema

https://sbiff.org/

 

BRITISH ACADEMY FILM AWARDS

  • BOONG by Lakshmipriya Devi, producer: MW graduate Alan McAlex won Best Children's & Family Film 
  • MR NOBODY AGAINST PUTIN by David Borenstein, Pavel Ilyich Talankin, Co-director Pavel Talankin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Radovan Sibrt won Best Documentary
  • SENTIMENTAL VALUE by Joachim Trier, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jonas Dornbach, Lizette Jonjic won Best Film Not in the English Language

https://www.bafta.org/awards/film/

 

IRISH FILM & TELEVISION ACADEMY AWARDS

  • SAIPAN (REPEAT) by Glenn Leyburn, Lisa Barros D'Sa, producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher won Best Lead Actor (Éanna Hardwicke)
  • BUGONIA by Yorgos Lanthimos, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won Best International Actress (Emma Stone)
  • DIE MY LOVE by Lynne Ramsay, producer: EAVE graduate Andrea Calderwood won Best Cinematography (Seamus McGarvey)
  • BLUE MOON by Richard Linklater, executive producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher won Best Costume Design (Consolata Boyle)

https://ifta.ie/news/dts/winners26.php

 

BELGIAN ENSOR AWARDS

  • YOUNG HEARTS by Anthony Schatteman, producer: EAVE graduate Xavier Rombaut, co-producers: EAVE graduates Floor Onrust, Annabella Nezri won Best Youth Fiction, Play Kinepolis Audience Award and Best Performance in a Supporting Role - Film (Emilie De Roo)

https://www.ensors.be/en/news/these-are-all-winners-ensors-2026

 

GÖTEBORG FILM FESTIVAL

  • CALLE MALAGA by Maryam Touzani, producer: EAVE graduate Fred Burle won the Dragon Award Best International Film
  • MY FATHER’S SHADOW by Akinola Davies, producer: EAVE graduate Ed Guiney won the Youth Jury Dragon Award
  • THE PATRON by Julie Thelin, producer: EAVE graduate Eliza Jones won the Angelospriset (Swedish Church Film Prize)

Nordic Film Market

  • CHENTIAN by Suha Arraf, producer: EAVE graduate May Odeh won the Tint Post-Production Award

https://goteborgfilmfestival.se/en

 

INDEPENDENT SPIRIT AWARDS

  • THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi won Best Editing (Sofía Subercaseaux)
  • THE SECRET AGENT by Kleber Mendonça Filho, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle, EAVE graduate Léontine Petit won Best International Film

https://www.filmindependent.org/spirit-awards/ 

 

GAUDI AWARDS

  • SIRAT by Oliver Laxe, producer: PUENTES graduate Xavi Font won Best Non-Catalan Language Film, Best Production, Best Art Direction, Best Original Music, Best Cinematography, Best Sound, Best Visual Effects, Best Makeup and HairstyliFURY by Gemma Blasco, producer: PUENTES graduate and EAVE graduate Mireilla Graell won Best New Director, Best Actress
  • ROMERIA by Carla Simon, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Maria Zamora won Best Breakthrough Performance
  • EAVE project MADE OF SUGAR by Claudia Cedo, producer: EAVE graudtae Ariadna Dot won Best Short Film
  • EAVE Marketing Workshop project FLOW by Gints Zilbalodis, producer: EAVE graduate Matiss Kaza won Best European Film

https://academiadelcinema.cat/ca/premis-gaudi/xviii-premis-gaudi

 

SHORTFILMWIRE CLERMONT-FERRAND

  • A SHORT ART by Ilke Paddenburg, producer: EAVE graduate Maarten Van der Ven won the Audience Award
  • BLUE HEART by Samuel Suffren, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Ruszniewski won the International Grand Prize
  • BLEAT! by Ananth Subramaniam, producers: TTB graduate Choo Mun Bel and Bradley Liew won the Student Jury Prize
  • WATER SPORTS by Whammy Alcazaren, producer:  TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang received the Special Mention by the Lab jury

https://www.shortfilmwire.com/

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EAVE project SKIFF in Belgian cinemas

  • EAVE project SKIFF by Cecilia Verheyden, producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, co-producer: EAVE graduate Leontine Petit in Belgian cinemas this month.

https://www.miragefilms.be/

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EAVE Marketing Workshop project THE BIRTHDAY PARTY showcased at Glasgow

Shortfilmwire Clermont-Ferrand (January 30 – February 7)

  • A SHORT ART by Ilke Paddenburg, producer: EAVE graduate Maarten Van der Ven
  • AGAPITO by Arvin Belarmino and Kyla Romero, producer: TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • ASTRONAUTA by Giorgio Giampà, producer: EAVE graduate Lorenzo Cioffi and TTB and EAVE graduate Avantika Singh Desbouvries
  • BLEAT! by Ananth Subramaniam, producers: TTB graduate Choo Mun Bel and Bradley Liew
  • BLUE HEART by Samuel Suffren, producer: EAVE graduate Carine Ruszniewski
  • EL BANNER by Tomás Terzano, producer: PUENTES graduate Julieta Juncadella
  • LOYNES by Dorian Jespers, producer: EAVE graduate Benoît Roland
  • CE QUI N’EXISTE PAS N’EXISTE PAS by Franck Morand, Guillaume Senez, Lazare Gousseau, producer: TTB graduate Nathan Duboutay
  • COYOTES by Said Zagha, producers: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine and Petra Ivanyi, co-producer: EAVE graduate Rula Nasser
  • ÉQUARRISSEURS by Hippolyte Burkhart-Uhlen, producer: EAVE graduate Laurent Dené
  • PENINSULA by David Gašo, co-producer: EAVE graduate Danijel Pek
  • WATER SPORTS by Whammy Alcazaren, producer:  TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • A LONG GOODBYE by Victor Maes and Kate Voet, producers: MW graduate An Oost, EAVE graduates Emmy Oost and Donato Rotunno
  • THE EXPLODING GIRL VR by Caroline Poggi and Jonathan Vinel, producer: EAVE graduate Mando Stathi
  • THE DOLLHOUSE by Charlotte Bruneau and Dominic Desjardins, producer: EAVE MW graduate and EAVE participant Helène Walland

https://www.shortfilmwire.com/fr/2026

 

Santa Barbara International Film Festival (February 4 – 14)

  • A PALE VIEW OF HILLS by Kei Ishikawa, producers: EAVE graduate Marta Gmosińska and Mariusz Wlodarski
  • BROKEN VOICES by Ondřej Provazník, producer: EAVE graduate Jiří Konečný
  • CUBA & ALASKA by Yegor Troyanovsky, producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
  • DEATH AND LIFE MADALENA by Guto Parente, co-producer: EAVE graduate Isabel Machado
  • THE HEART IS A MUSCLE by Imran Hamdulay, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali
  • LAUNDRY by Zamo Mkhwanazi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Philippe Coeytaux
  • MATURITY by Jean-Benoît Ugeux, producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland
  • MAYSOON by Nancy Biniadaki, producer: EAVE graduate Christopher Zitterbart
  • NOMAD SHADOW by Eimi Imanishi, producers: EAVE graduate Belén Sánchez Silvero, PUENTES graduate Queralt Pons Serra
  • NO MERCY by Isabella Willinger, co-producers: MW and EAVE+ graduate Peter Drössler, FFF, EAVE+ and EAVE graduate Sabine Gruber
  • PERLA by Alexandra Makarová, producers: FFF, EAVE+ and EAVE graduate Sabine Gruber, MW, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Arash T. Riahi
  • SAIPAN by Lisa Barros D’Sa and Glenn Leyburn, producer: EAVE graduate Macdara Kelleher
  • SANATORIUM by Gar O’Rourke, producer: EAVE graduate Andrew Freedman
  • SILENT REBELLION by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes
  • STEAL AWAY by Clement Virgo, producer: FFF, MW, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Peter De Maegd
  • VANISHING GOATS by Marie Rémond, producer: PUENTES graduate Lionel Massol
  • VERSAILLES by Andres Clariond, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis
  • YUNAN by Ameer Fakher Eldin, producers: EAVE graduates Dorothe Beinemeier, Marco Valerio Fusco, Tony Copti; EAVE participant Jiries Copti won Best Actor

https://sbiff.org/

 

Berlin International Film Festival (February 13 – 23)

Competition

  • AT THE SEA by Kornél Mundruczó, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi
  • DUST by Anke Blondé, co-producers: EAVE graduate Krystyna Kantor, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, EAVE graduate and group leader Joanna Szymanska, associate producer: EAVE graduate Stephen Vandingenen
  • HOME STORIES by Eva Trobisch, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • IN A WHISPER by Leyla Bouzid, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • NIGHTBORN by Hanna Bergholm, co-producer: TTB graduate Christopher Granier-Deferre
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart
  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen

Perspectives

  • 17 by Kosara Mitic, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE SLATE graduate Vlado Bulajić, EAVE graduates Miroslav Mogorovic and Lija Pogačnik
  • A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Dara van Dusen, producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, FFF graduate Ondrej Zima, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, EAVE graduate Vicky Miha
  • FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua, TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena, co-producer: TTB graduate Sam Chua Weishi
  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • OUR SECRET by Grace Passô, co-producers: EAVE graduate Rachel Daisy Clarke Ellis, EAVE and Creative Producer Indaba graduate Julia Alves
  • THE RED HANGAR by Juan Pablo Sallato, co-producer: MW graduate Stefano Mutolo
  • TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte
  • TRULY NAKED by Muriel d’Ansembourg, producers: TTB graduates Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate and TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Antonino Lombardo
  • WHERE TO? by Assaf Machnes, producer: EAVE graduate Luis Singer

Panorama

  • AROUND PARADISE by Yulia Lokshina, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner
  • ÁRRU by Elle Sofe Sara, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Elisa Fernanda Pirir
  • A RUSSIAN WINTER, by Patric Chiha, producers: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent and EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • DOUGLAS GORDON BY DOUGLAS GORDON by Finlay Pretsell, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici, co-producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Estelle Robin You
  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH by Elisé Sawasawa, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin
  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
  • JARIPEO by Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, co-producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
  • LADY by Olive Nwosu, associate producer: EAVE graduate Victoria Thomas
  • LONDON by Sebastian Brameshuber, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun
  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, co-producers: EAVE, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Agustina Chiarino, EAVE+ graduate Fernando Epstein
  • NUMB by Takuya Uchiyama, producer: TTB graduate Naomi Satoh
  • PARADISE by Jérémy Comte, producer: EAVE graduate Fabian Westerhoff, associate producer: EAVE graduate Julie Viez
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Shariat, producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes
  • RAGING by Ryan Machado, producer: EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • SIRI HUSTVEDT – DANCE AROUND THE SELF by Sabine Lidl, producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch
  • THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING by Sophie Heldman, producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettine Brokemper, EAVE graduate Karin Koch, EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • THE GARDEN WE DREAMED by Joaquín del Paso, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celís
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
  • TRACES by Aisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Wojcik, EAVE+ graduate Violetta Kaminska
  • TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher, associate producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Jean des Forêts, EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
  • TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST by Viv Li, producer: EAVE graduate Olivia Sophie Van Leeuwen

Forum

  • EL LEON directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante
  • LUST by Ralitza Petrova, co-producers: TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, EAVE graduates Katrin Pors, Anna Byvald
  • NARRATIVE by Anocha Suwichakornpong, producer: TTB graduate Mai Meksawan
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduates Tudor Giurgiu, Bogdan Crăciun
  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • SCENARIO by Marie Wilke, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert
  • UCHRONIA by Fil Ieropoulos, co-producer: EAVE graduate Steven Rubinstein Malamud
  • WOMEN AS LOVERS by Koxi, producers: EAVE+ graduates Herbert Schwering, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

Berlinale Special

Berlinale Special Gala

  • HEYSEL 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert
  • NO GOOD MEN by Shahrbanoo Sadat, co-producers: EAVE graduates Maxi Haslberger, Katja Adomeit
  • THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi
  • THE WEIGHT by Padraic McKinley producer: EAVE+ and MW graduate Jonas Katzenstein

Berlinale Special Midnight

  • MONSTER PABRIK RAMBUT (SLEEP NO MORE) by Edwin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Berlinale Special Series

  • MINT by Charlotte Regan, producer: EAVE graduate Angus Lamont

Generation

Generation Kplus

  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: EAVE graduates Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr
  • BATS & BUGS by Lena von Döhren , producer: MW and EAVE graduate Sarah Born, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dario Schoch
  • GHOST SCHOOL by Seemab Guu, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier, EAVE+ graduate Steffen Gerdes
  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle
  • IMAGINARY NUMBERS by Jelica Jerinić, producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Snezana Van Houwelingen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tina Tisljar
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia
  • PAPAYA by Priscilla Kellen, producer: EAVE and MW graduate Letícia Friedrich

Generation 14plus

  • BLACK BURNS FAST by Sanduela Asanda, producers: EAVE graduates Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro
  • QUATRO MENINAS by Karen Suzane, producer: EAVE graduate Ellen Havenith
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi
  • THE LIGHTS, THEY FALL by Saša Vajda, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, executive producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler

Berlinale Shorts

  • SHOT REVERSE SHOT by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă, producer: EAVE graduate Alex Teodorescu
  • SOULS OF FOUTA by Alpha Diallo, co-producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Souleymane Kébé

EFM Animation Days

  • GOYA, CAVE OF DREAMS by DK and Hugh Welchman, producers: EAVE graduates Alba Sotorra, Belen Sanchez, Hugh Welchman
  • EAVE project RED ZONE by Iryna Tsilyk, producer: EAVE graduate Darya Bassel, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marion Guth
  • SAIMA: SCENES FROM A MIDLIFE CRISIS by Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat
  • THE TWILIGHT WORLD produced by EAVE graduate Kristine Knudsen

Berlinale Co-Production Market

Official Feature Project Selection 2026

  • ALL IN MY FAMILY by Hao Wu, producer: TTB graduate Julia Xu
  • BLACK AS SNOW by Farhad Delaram, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • FERAL by Nihaarika Negi, producer: EAVE participant Naren Chandavarkar
  • KARMIC KNOT by Signe Baumane, producers: EAVE FFF graduate Robert Vinovskis, PUENTES graduate Dominiks Jarmakovics
  • LOTUS FEET by Amanda Nell Eu, producer: TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling
  • MERCURY CHILD by Leonie Krippendorff, producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier
  • NATIVITY by Francisca Alegría, producer: PUENTES, TTB, MW and EAVE+ graduate Giancarlo Nasi
  • PEOPLE STILL DIE OF LOVE by Fernando Guzzoni, producer: PUENTES graduate Florencia Rodriguez
  • RIOT/GIRL by Arman T. Riahi, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Peter Drössler
  • SYLVIA by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen
  • THE BLACK GOAT by Eduardo Casanova, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Merry Colomer

"Berlinale Directors" projects

  • THE LAST FRONTIER by Rodrigo Moreno, producers: PUENTES graduate Ezequiel Borovinsky, EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial
  • THE VACATION by Dénes Nagy, producers: EAVE graduates Sára László, Marcell Gerő, Jean-Laurent Csinidis

World Cinema Market Project

  • BLUE CARD by Mohammed Alomda, producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Mohamed Alomda

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express

  • BEIRUT BABY by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine

Talent Project Market

  • ACTS OF KINDNESS by Ellen Ugelstad, producer: EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner
  • APNEA by Lô Politi, producer: EAVE graduate Leonardo Mecchi
  • EAVE project CLAUDE by Narcisse Wandji, producer: EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli
  • MISS PANDORA by Jan Forsström, producer: EAVE graduate Marja Pihlaja
  • PORTO ALEGRE by Alvaro Gago, producer: EAVE graduate Mireia Graell
  • EAVE project THE MOST ROMANTIC MAN IN THE WORLD by Simon Jaquemet, producer: EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara
  • WATCH IT BURN by Makbul Mubarak, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Yulia Evina Bhara

Company Matching Programme

  • 2Brave Productions, Ukraine - CHANGE participant Kateryna Yahodka
  • Bubbles Project, Brazil - PUENTES graduate and National Coordinator Latin America Tatiana Leite
  • Elastica, Spain - EAVE graduate Maria Zamora
  • Kino Produzioni, Italy - EAVE graduates Giovanni Pompili, Lara Costa-Calzado
  • X Filme Creative Pool, Germany - EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes

Copro Series Projects

  • GOLD, produced by EAVE graduate Ivan Madeo, Creative Producer Indaba graduate Stefan Eichenberger
  • THE GRANDDAUGHTER, produced by EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner
  • JAMANDA!, produced by EAVE graduate Leontine Petit
  • ANGELMAKER, produced by EAVE graduates Anamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu

Berlinale Talents

  • Creative Producer Indaba graduate Sawsan Yusuf
  • PUENTES graduate Carlos Hernandez Vazquez
  • TTB, MW graduate and EAVE participant Matija Drnikovic
  • EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli
  • TTB graduate Loy Te
  • PUENTES graduate Irene Cadavid
  • EAVE participant Estephania Bonnett
  • EAVE MW graduate Brigita Beniušytė
  • EAVE MW graduate Ajandok Gyenis
  • EAVE graduate Leonardo Mecchi
  • EAVE graduate Ram Krishna Pokharel
  • EAVE graduate Maria Ibrahimova
  • EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner
  • EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara
  • EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara
  • EAVE graduate Mireia Graell
  • EAVE graduate Marja Pihjala
  • EAVE graduate Tapiwa Chipfupah

EFM SCREENINGS

  • 18 HOLES TO PARADISE by João Nuno Pinto, producer: EAVE graduate Andreia Nunes, co-producers: MW and EAVE graduate Roberto Cavallinni, EAVE graduate Debora Nischler
  • 500 MILES by Morgan Matthews, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland
  • 9 MOONS by Patricia Ortega, producer: EAVE graduate Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo
  • A BRIGHT FUTURE by Lucía Garibaldi, producer: PUENTES graduate Pancho Magnou, co-producer: Jamila Wenske
  • A BURNING MAN by Eyal Halfon, producer: EAVE graduate Michael Rozenbaum
  • AISHA CAN’T FLY AWAY by Morad Mostafa, producer: EAVE graduate Ahmed Amer, co-producers: EAVE graduate May Odeh and Creative Producer Indaba graduate Sawsan Yusuf
  • AKASHI by Mayumi Yoshida, producer: ACCESS graduate Nach Dudsdeemaytha
  • ALL MY SISTERS by Massoud Bakhshi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • ALL NIGHT WRONG by Jason James, producer: EAVE graduate Amber Ripley
  • AMSTERDAMNED II by Dick Maas, producer: MW, FFF, EAVE+ and EAVE graduate Peter De Maegd
  • ANOTHER MAN by David Moragas, producer: PUENTES graduate Alba Bosch-Duran
  • A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Dara van Dusen, producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, FFF graduate Ondrej Zima, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, EAVE graduate Vicky Miha
  • ÁRRU by Elle Sofe Sara, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Elisa Fernanda Pirir
  • A RUSSIAN WINTER, by Patric Chiha, producers: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent and EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • ATHLETE by Semih Gülen, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Anamaria Antoci, EAVE+, TTB and EAVE graduate Anda Ionescu
  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: MW and EAVE graduate Ioana Lascar, MW, TTB, EAVE and PUENTES graduate Radu Stancu
  • AT THE SEA by Kornél Mundruczó, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrány
  • A USEFUL GHOST by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, producer: TTB graduate Karim Aitouna, co-producer: EAVE graduate May Odeh
  • BATS & BUGS by Lena von Döhren , producer: MW and EAVE graduate Sarah Born, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dario Schoch
  • CALLE MALAGA by Maryam Touzani, producer: EAVE graduate Fred Burle
  • CLOSURE by Michał Marczak, producer: EAVE graduate Monika Braid
  • CONRAD & CRAB - IDIOTIC GEMS by Claude Schmitz, producer: EAVE graduates Benoît Roland and Jéremy Forni
  • COSMONAUTS by Leo Cernic, producer: EAVE graduate Katja Lenarcic and EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar
  • DEAD LANGUAGE by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, producer: MW graduate Gal Greenspan
  • DOUGLAS GORDON BY DOUGLAS GORDON by Finlay Pretsell, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici, co-producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Estelle Robin You
  • DO YOU LOVE ME by Lana Daher, producer: FFF and EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
  • DUST by Anke Blondé, co-producers: EAVE graduate Krystyna Kantor, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, EAVE graduate and group leader Joanna Szymanska, associate producer: EAVE graduate Stephen Vandingenen
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew
  • EAVE project SKIFF by Cecilia Verheyden, producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, co-producer: EAVE graduate Eliza Jones
  • EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman
  • ELISA by Leonardo Di Constanzo, producers: EAVE+ graduates Carlo Cesto-Dina, Michela Pini and Amel Soudain
  • ENJOY YOUR STAY by Dominik Locher and Honeylyn Joy Alipio, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin, Europe graduate Jacques Bidou
  • EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry
  • EXTRAORDINARY by Vanda Raymanová  andMarina Andree Skop, producer: EAVE graduate Tibor Keser, co-producer: MW and EAVE graduate Ida Weiss
  • FATHER by Tereza Nvotová, producer: EAVE graduate Marta Gmosińska, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marius Wlodarski
  • FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua, TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena
  • FLOPHOUSE AMERICA by Monica Strømdahl, producer: EAVE graduate Beathe Hofseth
  • FORASTERA by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, producers: TTB graduate Marta Cruañas, EAVE graduate Ariadna Dot, EAVE graduate and Italian National Coordinator Giovanni Pompili
  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • FRONTIER by Judith Colell, producer: EAVE graduate Katleen Goossens
  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho
  • HEYSEL 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert
  • HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou
  • HOME STORIES by Eva Trobisch, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • HONESTLY, I’M FINE by Anne de Clercq, producer: EAVE+ graduate Hanneke Niens
  • HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte
  • ICE GRAVE by Robin Hunzinger, producer: EAVE graduate Cédric Bonin
  • IMAGINARY NUMBERS by Jelica Jerinic, producer: Snezana van Houwelingen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tina Tisljar
  • IN A WHISPER by Leyla Bouzid, producer: MW and EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
  • KALEVALA: THE STORY OF KULLERVO by Antti J. Jokinen, producer: EAVE+ graduate Marko Röhr
  • KARLA by Christina Tournatzés, producer: PUENTES graduate Jamila Wenske
  • KOMAR by Timur Makarevic, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduates Amra Bakšić Čamo and Adis Djapo
  • KRISTALLNACHT by Stefan Ruzowitzky, producers: EAVE graduate Danny Krausz and MW graduate Florian Krügel
  • LAST CALL by Sherif Francis, associate producer: EAVE, EAVE+ and Greek National Coordinator Konstantinos Kontovrakis
  • LAUNDRY by Zamo Mkhwanazi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Philippe Coeytaux
  • LIFE IS LIFE by Riccardo Milani, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa
  • LOCAL SHADOW by Eimi Imanishi, producers: EAVE graduate Belén Sánchez Silvero, PUENTES graduate Queralt Pons Serra
  • LONDON by Sebastian Brameshuber, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun
  • MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
  • MAILIN by María Silvestre Esteve, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Radu Stancu
  • MELT by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger
  • MONKAM by Narcisse Wandji, producer: EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli
  • MONSTER PABRIK RAMBUT (SLEEP NO MORE) by Edwin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
  • MOSQUITOES by Nicole Bertani and Valentina Bertani, producers: EAVE graduate Olga Lamontanara and EAVE+ graduate Michela Pini
  • NAK MUAY by Tinge, producer: TTB graduate Lee Thomas
  • NO GOOD MEN by   Shahrbanoo Sadat, producer: EAVE graduate Maximilian Haslberger
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: FFF, TTB and EAVE graduate Fran Borgia
  • NOTHING BETWEEN US by Juan Taratuto, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Sandino Saravia Vinay
  • OH, THIS UNSPEAKABLE VOID by Simon Verhoeven, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Crăciun
  • PAPAYA by Priscilla Kellen, producer: EAVE and MW graduate Letícia Friedrich
  • PARADISE by Jérémy Comte, producer: EAVE graduate Fabian Westerhoff, associate producer: EAVE graduate Julie Viez
  • PET PEEVES by Javier Polo Gandía, producer: EAVE graduate Gerard Rodríguez
  • PROYECTO GLOBAL by Ivo Ferreira, co-producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Shariat , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes
  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar
  • PUENTES project THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSES by Daniel Vidal Toche, producer: PUENTES graduate Ignacio Vuelta
  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart
  • SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar
  • SHOT REVERSE SHOT by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă, producer: EAVE graduate Alex Teodorescu
  • SICKO by Aitore Zholdaskali, producer: EAVE graduate Anna Katchko
  • SILENT REBELLION by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes
  • SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon
  • SOULS OF FOUTA by Alpha Diallo, co-producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Souleymane Kébé
  • STEAL AWAY by Clement Virgo, producer: FFF, MW EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Peter De Maegd
  • STRANGE RIVER by Jaume Claret Muxart, producers: EAVE graduates Xavi Font, Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens
  • STRAWBERRIES by Laïla Marrakchi, co-producers: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, EAVE graduate Adrià Monés,
  • TELL ME EVERYTHING by Moshe Rosenthal, producer: MW graduate Gal Greenspan
  • THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING by Sophia Heldman, producers: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper, EAVE graduate Karen Koch, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nadira Murray
  • THE ETERNITY MAN by Ivan NIkolaichuk, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Ikka Matila
  • THE EYES OF OTHERS by Andrea Se Sica, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli
  • THE FALL OF SIR DOUGLAS WEATHERFORD by Sean Robert Dunn, associate producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • THE FROG AND THE WATER by Thomas Stuber, co-producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Welter
  • THE LAST RESORT by Maria Sødahl, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
  • THE LIGHTS, THEY FALL by Saša Vajda, producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried
  • THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Cespedes, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
  • THE PALM LINE by Fulvio Bernasconi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher
  • THE PHYSICIAN II by Philipp Stölzl, producer: EAVE graduate Petra Ivanyi
  • THE SQUIRREL by Markus Lehmusruusu, producers: EAVE graduate Misha Jaari and TTB and EAVE graduate Mark Lwoff, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Fleur Knopperts, Denis Vaslin
  • TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher, associate producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Jean des Forêts, EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
  • TRULY NAKED by Muriel d’Ansembourg, producers: TTB graduates Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate and TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Antonino Lombardo
  • UN ANNO DI SCUOLA by Laura Samani, producers: EAVE graduate Nadia Trevisan, EAVE graduate Thomas Lambert
  • UNSTOPPABLE by Martin Lund, producer: EAVE graduate Ruben Thorkildsen
  • VÄRN  by John Skoog, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Drab, co-producer: EAVE graduates Per Damgaard Hansen, Misha Jaari, EAVE and TTB graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Leontine Petit
  • VEINS by Raymond St-Jean, producer: EAVE+ graduate Nicolas Comeau
  • VERSALLES by Andres Clariond, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis
  • WELDED TOGETHER by Anastasija Mirošničenko, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman
  • WE’LL FIND HAPPINESS by Léa Pool, producer: EAVE graduate Katarzyna Ozga
  • WHAT IS LOVE by Fabien Gorgeart, producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduates Jean des Forêts and Marie Dubas, MW graduate Amélie Jacquis
  • WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, producers: EAVE graduate David Bohun and Heino Deckert
  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-producer: EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen
  • YON LÄPSI by Hanna Bergholm, co-producer: TTB graduate Christopher Granier Deferre
  • ZEJTUNE by Alex Camilleri, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle

 

EFM Far East in Progress

on Thursday, February 12th, 18:00–19:30

A new Works in Progress initiative jointly organised by EAVE Ties That Bind – Asia Europe Co_Production Workshop and the European Film Market (EFM).
The session spotlighted five Asian feature films currently in post-production, all produced by alumni of the Ties That Bind programme.

  • ONE MORE GOOD DAY by Natasha K. Sung, producer: TTB graduate Nobu Tsai Hsin Hung
  • RIA by Arvin Belarmino, produced by TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • THE SEA SPEAKS HIS NAME by Yosep Anggi Noen, producer: TTB graduate Gita Fara
  • TTB project PICTUREHOUSE by Minh-Nghiem Nguyen-Vo, producer: TTB graduate Johann Chapelan
  • TTB project WILL YOU STILL BE MY FRIEND by Po-Shun Lu, producer: TTB graduate Yu-Hao Su

The session was moderated by TTB Head of Studies and EAVE+ graduate Christophe Bruncher (Ici et Là Productions, France).

 

Morning Kick-Off: Producers' Breakfast Club by EFM, ACE Producers and EAVE

on Saturday, February 14th, 09:00 – 10:00

 

EAVE session: Does AI need you more than you need it? Five questions to find out.

on Saturday, February 14th, at 10:00

Speaker: EAVE expert Nicolò Gallio, Marketing Strategist & Audience Designer

Artificial intelligence promises efficiency and productivity, but what does that really mean for film professionals? In this interactive talk, EAVE expert Nicolò Gallio will walk through five questions to test where AI genuinely adds value, where it still falls short, and why human judgement remains essential when working with machines.

www.berlinale.de

 

Dublin International Film Festival (February 19 – March 1)

  • 500 MILES by Morgan Matthews, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland
  • CIRCLE by Valentina Monti, producer: EAVE graduates Alessandro Carroli and Claudio Giapponesi
  • GAYS AGAINST GUNS by Paul Rowley, producer: EAVE graduate Nicky Gogan
  • POWER BALLAD by John Carney, producer: EAVE graduate Robert Anthony Walpole
  • MIDWINTER BREAK by Polly Findlay, producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Floor Onrust, co-producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Reece Cargan
  • THE LIGHTKEEPER by Vic Sarin, producer: EAVE graduate Larry Bass
  • THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Cespedes, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi
  • THE RESTORATION AT GRAYSON MANOR by Glenn McQuaid, producer: EAVE graduate Brendan McCarthy
  • WHITETAIL by Nanouk Leopold, producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, co-producer: EAVE graduates Katie Holly, Evan Horan

https://www.diff.ie/

 

Ibizacinefest – Ibiza International Independent Film Festival (February 20 – March 1)

  • DE SUCRE by Claudia Cedó, producer: EAVE graduate Ariadna Dot
  • BODEGÓN CON FANTASMAS by Enrique Buleo, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen
  • I WANT TO KNOW MORE ABOUT LIFE! by Beatričė Sofija Piesliakaitė, producer: MW graduate Marija Kazlauskaite

https://ibizacinefest.com/

 

Rieti International Film Festival, Italy (February 18-22)

  • ASTRONAUTA by Giorgio Giampà, producer: EAVE graduate Lorenzo Cioffi and TTB and EAVE graduate Avantika Singh Desbouvries

https://rietifilmfestival.com/

 

Glasgow Film Festival (February 25 – March 8)

  • EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry
  • FATHER MOTHER SISTER BROTHER by Jim Jarmusch, co- producer: EAVE graduate Conor Barry
  • EAVE Marketing Workshop project THE BIRTHDAY PARTY by Miguel Ángel Jiménez, producer: EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, co-producers: EAVE graduates Adrià Monés and Leontine Petit
  • THE LAST VIKING by Anders Thomas Jensen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Lizette Jonjic
  • LEONORA IN THE MORNING LIGHT by Lena Vurma, Thor Klein, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate James Heath, EAVE graduate Lena Vurma
  • HEN by György Pálfi, produce: EAVE Effie Skrobola
  • FRANZ by Agnieszka Holland, co-producer: EAVE graduates David Grumbach, Jorgo Narjes and Marcin Wierzchoslawski
  • JARIPEO by Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, co-producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
  • WITHOUT PERMISSION by Hassan Nazer, associate producer: Paul Welsh
  • FORASTERA by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, producers: TTB graduate Marta Cruañas, EAVE graduate Ariadna Dot, EAVE graduate and Italian National Coordinator Giovanni Pompili
  • ALLAH IS NOT OBLIGED by Zaven Najjar, producer: EAVE and EAVE+  graduate Paul Thiltges

https://www.glasgowfilm.org/

 

New York International Children’s Film Festival, US (February 28 - March 15)

  • 9 MILLION COLORS by Bara Anna Stejskalova, producer: EAVE graduate Jakub Košťál, co-producer: EAVE graduate Lillian Ramsøskar Løvseth
  • AUTOKAR by Sylwia Szkiłądź, co-producer: Viviane Vanfleteren
  • BATS & BUGS by Lena von Döhren , producer: MW and EAVE graduate Sarah Born, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dario Schoch
  • FORT BUKU by Loëlle Monsanto, producer: EAVE graduate Emjay Rechsteiner
  • GHOST SCHOOL by Seemab Guu, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier, EAVE+ graduate Steffen Gerdes
  • MY LIFE IN VERSAILLES by Clémence Madeleine-Perdrillat & Nathaniel H'limi, producer: PUENTES graduate Lionel Massol
  • PAPAYA by Priscilla Kellen, producer: EAVE and MW graduate Letícia Friedrich

https://nyicff.org/

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EAVE project THE DIFFICULT BRIDE in post-production

FONDAZIONE PRADA

Fondazione Prada announces the projects selected for the first edition of the Fondazione Prada Film Fund, the annual initiative launched in 2025 to support independent cinema. Amounting to 1.5 million euros in total, the Film Fund supports film projects in their development, production, and post-production phases. With no restrictions of genre or geography, it embraces a plurality of languages, forms, and perspectives, focusing particularly on works that address contemporary complexities through personal and innovative cinematographic vision.

  • EAVE project THE DIFFICULT BRIDE by Rubaiyat Hossain, producer: EAVE graduate Aadnan Imtiaz Ahmed (currently in post-production)

https://www.fondazioneprada.org/film-fund/

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MEET EAVE IN MARCH

@ EAVE Producers Workshop, March 6 - 13, Luxembourg (LU)

EAVE CEO Kristina Trapp, EAVE Deputy CEO Satu Elo, EAVE Head of Studies Lise Lense-Møller, and the whole EAVE team

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Golden Bear for YELLOW LETTERS - 22 awards in total for EAVE Producers at the Berlinale

EAVE graduates won an impressive number of 22 awards at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival, including the Golden Bear for YELLOW LETTERS which was not only co-produced, but also co-written by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen! 

Other highlights include the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay for EAVE project NINA ROZA - congratulations to EAVE producer Fanny Drew!

PUENTES project NARCISO produced by PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, and co-produced by EAVE producers Agustina Chiarino and Fernando Epstein won the FIPRESCI prize in Panorama!

 

Prizes of the International Jury

  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Golden Bear of the 76th Berlinale
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart won the Silver Bear Grand Jury Prize
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter won the Silver Bear for Best Lead Performance
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew won the Silver Bear for Best Screenplay

Perspectives

  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak received a Special Mention (Coup de Coeur) in Perspectives

Panorama Audience Awards

  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Audience Award (Fiction) in Panorama
  • TRACES by Aisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Wojcik, EAVE+ graduate Violetta Kaminska won the Audience Award (Documentary) in Panorama
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo won the First Runner-up award in Panorama

Generation Competition

  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation Kplus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation Kplus
  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: EAVE graduates Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr received a Special Mention
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi won the Grand Prix for the Best Film in Generation 14plus and the Crystal Bear for the Best Film in Generation 14plus
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia received a Special Mention

Teddy Awards

  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint won the Teddy Award for Best Feature Film
  • TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte won the Jury Award

FIPRESCI Award

  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, co-producers: EAVE, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Agustina Chiarino, EAVE+ graduate Fernando Epstein won the FIPRESCI prize in Panorama

Ecumenical Jury Award

  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray won the Ecumenical Jury Award in Forum

Other Awards

  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen won the Prize of the Guild of German Arthouse Cinemas
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Sharia , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes won the Heiner Carow Prize and the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Crăciun won the C.I.C.A.E. Art Cinema Award

A great number of 37,3 % of all Berlinale awards were handed out to EAVE producers! Congratulations to everyone involved!

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EAVE @ the 76th Berlin International Film Festival

EAVE is proud to announce a very strong presence of EAVE projects & producers at this year's Berlin Film Festival: 9 films in COMPETITION, 9 films in the PERSPECTIVES section, 21 in PANORAMA, 8 at the FORUM, 7 in BERLINALE SPECIAL, 11 at the GENERATION sections, 2 SHORTS, 4 projects in EFM Animation Days, 19 projects at the BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET and its sidebar sections, 17 Berlinale Talents and 7 projects at the TALENT PROJECT MARKET and in total 119 films presented at the European Film Market!

Don't miss the EAVE session: 'Does AI need you more than you need it? Five questions to find out' on February 14th at the EFM Innovation Hub!

Competition

  • AT THE SEA by Kornél Mundruczó, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi
  • DUST by Anke Blondé, co-producers: EAVE graduate Krystyna Kantor, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, EAVE graduate and group leader Joanna Szymanska, associate producer: EAVE graduate Stephen Vandingenen
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew
  • HOME STORIES by Eva Trobisch, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • IN A WHISPER by Leyla Bouzid, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • NIGHTBORN by Hanna Bergholm, co-producer: TTB graduate Christopher Granier-Deferre
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart
  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-written and co-produced by EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen

Perspectives

  • 17 by Kosara Mitic, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE SLATE graduate Vlado Bulajić, EAVE graduates Miroslav Mogorovic and Lija Pogačnik
  • A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Dara van Dusen, producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, FFF graduate Ondrej Zima, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, EAVE graduate Vicky Miha
  • FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua, TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena, co-producer: TTB graduate Sam Chua Weishi
  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • OUR SECRET by Grace Passô, co-producers: EAVE graduate Rachel Daisy Clarke Ellis, EAVE and Creative Producer Indaba graduate Julia Alves
  • THE RED HANGAR by Juan Pablo Sallato, co-producer: MW graduate Stefano Mutolo
  • TRIAL OF HEIN by Kai Stänicke, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dirk Decker, EAVE+ graduate Andrea Schütte
  • TRULY NAKED by Muriel d’Ansembourg, producers: TTB graduates Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate and TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Antonino Lombardo
  • WHERE TO? by Assaf Machnes, producer: EAVE graduate Luis Singer

Panorama

  • AROUND PARADISE by Yulia Lokshina, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner
  • ÁRRU by Elle Sofe Sara, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Elisa Fernanda Pirir
  • A RUSSIAN WINTER, by Patric Chiha, producers: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent and EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • DOUGLAS GORDON BY DOUGLAS GORDON by Finlay Pretsell, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici, co-producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Estelle Robin You
  • ENOUGH IS ENOUGH by Elisé Sawasawa, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin
  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
  • JARIPEO by Efraín Mojica, Rebecca Zweig, co-producer: EAVE graduate Carine Chichkowsky
  • LADY by Olive Nwosu, associate producer: EAVE graduate Victoria Thomas
  • LONDON by Sebastian Brameshuber, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun 
  • NUMB by Takuya Uchiyama, producer: TTB graduate Naomi Satoh
  • PARADISE by Jérémy Comte, producer: EAVE graduate Fabian Westerhoff, associate producer: EAVE graduate Julie Viez
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Shariat , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes
  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar, co-producers: EAVE, EAVE+ and PUENTES graduate Agustina Chiarino, EAVE+ graduate Fernando Epstein
  • RAGING by Ryan Machado, producer: EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • SIRI HUSTVEDT – DANCE AROUND THE SELF by Sabine Lidl, producer: EAVE graduate Karin Koch 
  • THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING by Sophie Heldman, producer: EAVE+ graduate Bettine Brokemper, EAVE graduate Karin Koch, EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • THE GARDEN WE DREAMED by Joaquín del Paso, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celís
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
  • TRACES by Aisa Kovalenko and Marysia Nikitiuk, producer: EAVE graduate Izabela Wojcik, EAVE+ graduate Violetta Kaminska
  • TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher, associate producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Jean des Forêts, EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler 
  • TWO MOUNTAINS WEIGHING DOWN MY CHEST by Viv Li, producer: EAVE graduate Olivia Sophie Van Leeuwen

PUENTES project NARCISO © Luis Arteaga

 

Forum

  • EL LEON directed and produced by PUENTES graduate Diana Bustamante
  • LUST by Ralitza Petrova, co-producers: TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, EAVE graduates Katrin Pors, Anna Byvald
  • NARRATIVE by Anocha Suwichakornpong, producer: TTB graduate Mai Meksawan
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduates Tudor Giurgiu, Bogdan Crăciun
  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • SCENARIO by Marie Wilke, producer: EAVE graduate Heino Deckert
  • UCHRONIA by Fil Ieropoulos, co-producer: EAVE graduate Steven Rubinstein Malamud
  • WOMEN AS LOVERS by Koxi, producers: EAVE+ graduates Herbert Schwering, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu

 

Berlinale Special

Berlinale Special Gala

  • HEYSEL 85  by Teodora Ana Mihai, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert
  • NO GOOD MEN by Shahrbanoo Sadat, co-producers: EAVE graduates Maxi Haslberger, Katja Adomeit
  • THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • THE TESTAMENT OF ANN LEE by Mona Fastvold, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrányi
  • THE WEIGHT by Padraic McKinley producer: EAVE+ and MW graduate Jonas Katzenstein

Berlinale Special Midnight

  • MONSTER PABRIK RAMBUT (SLEEP NO MORE) by Edwin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad

Berlinale Special Series

  • MINT by Charlotte Regan, producer: EAVE graduate Angus Lamont

 

Generation

Generation Kplus

  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: EAVE graduates Radu Stancu, Ioana Lascăr
  • BATS & BUGS by Lena von Döhren , producer: MW and EAVE graduate Sarah Born, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dario Schoch
  • GHOST SCHOOL by Seemab Guu, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dorothe Beinemeier, EAVE+ graduate Steffen Gerdes
  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle
  • IMAGINARY NUMBERS by Jelica Jerinić, producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Snezana Van Houwelingen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tina Tisljar
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia
  • PAPAYA by Priscilla Kellen, producer: EAVE and MW graduate Letícia Friedrich

Generation 14plus

  • BLACK BURNS FAST by Sanduela Asanda, producers: EAVE graduates Cait Pansegrouw, Elias Ribeiro
  • QUATRO MENINAS by Karen Suzane, producer: Ellen Havenith
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi
  • THE LIGHTS, THEY FALL by Saša Vajda, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, executive producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler

 

Berlinale Shorts

  • SHOT REVERSE SHOT by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă, producer: EAVE graduate Alex Teodorescu
  • SOULS OF FOUTA by Alpha Diallo, co-producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Souleymane Kébé

 

EFM Animation Days

  • EAVE project RED ZONE by Iryna Tsilyk, producer: EAVE graduate Darya Bassel, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marion Guth
  • GOYA, CAVE OF DREAMS by DK and Hugh Welchman, producers: EAVE graduates Alba Sotorra, Belen Sanchez, Hugh Welchman
  • SAIMA: SCENES FROM A MIDLIFE CRISIS by Chintis Lundgren, Draško Ivezić, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Ostrat
  • THE TWILIGHT WORLD produced by EAVE graduate Kristine Knudsen

EAVE project RED ZONE © Flora Anna Buda

 

Berlinale Co-Production Market

Official Feature Project Selection 2026

  • ALL IN MY FAMILY by Hao Wu, producer: TTB graduate Julia Xu
  • BLACK AS SNOW by Farhad Delaram, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • FERAL by Nihaarika Negi, producer: EAVE participant Naren Chandavarkar
  • KARMIC KNOT by Signe Baumane, producers: EAVE FFF graduate Robert Vinovskis, PUENTES graduate Dominiks Jarmakovics
  • LOTUS FEET by Amanda Nell Eu, producer: TTB graduate Foo Fei Ling
  • MERCURY CHILD by Leonie Krippendorff, producer: EAVE graduate Verona Meier
  • NATIVITY by Francisca Alegría, producer: PUENTES, TTB, MW and EAVE+ graduate Giancarlo Nasi
  • PEOPLE STILL DIE OF LOVE by Fernando Guzzoni, producer: PUENTES graduate Florencia Rodriguez
  • RIOT/GIRL by Arman T. Riahi, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Peter Drössler
  • SYLVIA by Aida Begic, producer: EAVE graduate Snezana van Houwelingen
  • THE BLACK GOAT by Eduardo Casanova, producer: EAVE graduate and Spanish National Coordinator Merry Colomer

"Berlinale Directors" projects

  • THE LAST FRONTIER by Rodrigo Moreno, producers: PUENTES graduate Ezequiel Borovinsky, EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial
  • THE VACATION by Dénes Nagy, producers: EAVE graduates Sára László, Marcell Gerő, Jean-Laurent Csinidis

World Cinema Market Project

  • BLUE CARD by Mohammed Alomda, producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Mohamed Alomda

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express 

  • BEIRUT BABY by Joana Hadjithomas & Khalil Joreige, producer: EAVE graduate Myriam Sassine

Talent Project Market

  • ACTS OF KINDNESS by Ellen Ugelstad, producer: EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner
  • APNEA by Lô Politi, producer: EAVE graduate Leonardo Mecchi
  • EAVE project THE MOST ROMANTIC MAN IN THE WORLD by Simon Jaquemet, producer: EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara
  • EAVE project CLAUDE by Narcisse Wandji, producer: EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli 
  • MISS PANDORA by Jan Forsström, producer: EAVE graduate Marja Pihlaja
  • PORTO ALEGRE by Alvaro Gago, producer: EAVE graduate Mireia Graell
  • WATCH IT BURN by Makbul Mubarak, producer: EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara

Company Matching Programme

  • 2Brave Productions, Ukraine - CHANGE participant Kateryna Yahodka
  • Bubbles Project, Brazil - PUENTES graduate and National Coordinator Latin America Tatiana Leite
  • Elastica, Spain - EAVE graduate Maria Zamora
  • Kino Produzioni, Italy - EAVE graduates Giovanni Pompili, Lara Costa-Calzado
  • X Filme Creative Pool, Germany - EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes

Copro Series Projects

  • GOLD, produced by EAVE graduate Ivan Madeo, Creative Producer Indaba graduate Stefan Eichenberger
  • THE GRANDDAUGHTER, produced by EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner
  • JAMANDA!, produced by EAVE graduate Leontine Petit
  • ANGELMAKER, produced by EAVE graduates Anamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu

Berlinale Talents

  • Creative Producer Indaba graduate Sawsan Yusuf
  • PUENTES graduate Carlos Hernandez Vazquez
  • TTB, MW graduate and EAVE participant Matija Drnikovic
  • EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli 
  • TTB graduate Loy Te
  • PUENTES graduate Irene Cadavid
  • EAVE participant Estephania Bonnett
  • EAVE MW graduate Brigita Beniušytė
  • EAVE MW graduate Ajandok Gyenis
  • EAVE graduate Leonardo Mecchi
  • EAVE graduate Ram Krishna Pokharel
  • EAVE graduate Maria Ibrahimova
  • EAVE graduate and Norwegian National Coordinator Gary Cranner
  • EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara
  • EAVE participant Olga Lamontanara
  • EAVE graduate Mireia Graell
  • EAVE graduate Marja Pihjala

 

EFM SCREENINGS

  • 18 HOLES TO PARADISE by João Nuno Pinto, producer: EAVE graduate Andreia Nunes, co-producers: MW and EAVE graduate Roberto Cavallinni, EAVE graduate Debora Nischler
  • 500 MILES by Morgan Matthews, producer: EAVE graduate Martina Niland
  • 9 MOONS by Patricia Ortega, producer: EAVE graduate Olmo Figueredo González-Quevedo
  • A BRIGHT FUTURE by Lucía Garibaldi, producer: PUENTES graduate Pancho Magnou, co-producer: Jamila Wenske
  • A BURNING MAN by Eyal Halfon, producer: EAVE graduate Michael Rozenbaum
  • AISHA CAN’T FLY AWAY by Morad Mostafa, producer: EAVE graduate Ahmed Amer, co-producers: EAVE graduate May Odeh and Creative Producer Indaba graduate Sawsan Yusuf
  • AKASHI by Mayumi Yoshida, producer: ACCESS graduate Nach Dudsdeemaytha
  • ALL MY SISTERS by Massoud Bakhshi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • ALL NIGHT WRONG by Jason James, producer: EAVE graduate Amber Ripley
  • AMSTERDAMNED II by Dick Maas, producer: MW, FFF, EAVE+ and EAVE graduate Peter De Maegd
  • ANOTHER MAN by David Moragas, producer: PUENTES graduate Alba Bosch-Duran
  • A PRAYER FOR THE DYING by Dara van Dusen, producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, FFF graduate Ondrej Zima, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate Fenia Cossovitsa, EAVE graduate Vicky Miha
  • ÁRRU by Elle Sofe Sara, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Elisa Fernanda Pirir
  • A RUSSIAN WINTER, by Patric Chiha, producers: Interchange and B’EST graduate Charlotte Vincent and EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • ATHLETE by Semih Gülen, co-producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Anamaria Antoci, EAVE+, TTB and EAVE graduate Anda Ionescu
  • ATLAS OF THE UNIVERSE by Paul Negoescu, producers: MW and EAVE graduate Ioana Lascar, MW, TTB, EAVE and PUENTES graduate Radu Stancu
  • AT THE SEA by Kornél Mundruczó, producer: EAVE graduate Viktoria Petrány
  • A USEFUL GHOST by Ratchapoom Boonbunchachoke, producer: TTB graduate Karim Aitouna, co-producer: EAVE graduate May Odeh
  • BATS & BUGS by Lena von Döhren , producer: MW and EAVE graduate Sarah Born, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Dario Schoch
  • CALLE MALAGA by Maryam Touzani, producer: EAVE graduate Fred Burle
  • CLOSURE by Michał Marczak, producer: EAVE graduate Monika Braid
  • CONRAD & CRAB - IDIOTIC GEMS by Claude Schmitz, producer: EAVE graduates Benoît Roland and Jéremy Forni
  • COSMONAUTS by Leo Cernic, producer: EAVE graduate Katja Lenarcic and EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar, co-producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar
  • DEAD LANGUAGE by Oded Binnun and Mihal Brezis, producer: MW graduate Gal Greenspan
  • DOUGLAS GORDON BY DOUGLAS GORDON by Finlay Pretsell, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici, co-producer: EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Estelle Robin You
  • DO YOU LOVE ME by Lana Daher, producer: FFF and EAVE graduate Jean-Laurent Csinidis
  • DUST by Anke Blondé, co-producers: EAVE graduate Krystyna Kantor, EAVE+ graduate Giorgos Karnavas, EAVE graduate and group leader Joanna Szymanska, associate producer: EAVE graduate Stephen Vandingenen
  • EAVE project NINA ROZA by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, producer: EAVE graduate Fanny Drew
  • EAVE project SKIFF by Cecilia Verheyden, producer: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, co-producer: EAVE graduate Eliza Jones
  • EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman
  • ELISA by Leonardo Di Constanzo, producers: EAVE+ graduates Carlo Cesto-Dina, Michela Pini and Amel Soudain
  • ENJOY YOUR STAY by Dominik Locher and Honeylyn Joy Alipio, producer: EAVE graduate Marianne Dumoulin, Europe graduate Jacques Bidou
  • EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry 
  • EXTRAORDINARY by Vanda Raymanová  andMarina Andree Skop, producer: EAVE graduate Tibor Keser, co-producer: MW and EAVE graduate Ida Weiss
  • FATHER by Tereza Nvotová, producer: EAVE graduate Marta Gmosińska, co-producer: EAVE graduate Marius Wlodarski
  • FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua, TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena
  • FLOPHOUSE AMERICA by Monica Strømdahl, producer: EAVE graduate Beathe Hofseth
  • FORASTERA by Lucía Aleñar Iglesias, producers: TTB graduate Marta Cruañas, EAVE graduate Ariadna Dot, EAVE graduate and Italian National Coordinator Giovanni Pompili
  • FOREST HIGH by Manon Coubia, co-producer: B'EST graduate Charlotte Vincent, EAVE graduate Katia Khazak
  • FRONTIER by Judith Colell, producer: EAVE graduate Katleen Goossens
  • GUGU’S WORLD by Allan Deberton, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho
  • HEYSEL 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai, producer: EAVE graduate Hans Everaert
  • HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou
  • HOME STORIES by Eva Trobisch, producer: EAVE+ graduate David Armati Lechner, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • HONESTLY, I’M FINE by Anne de Clercq, producer: EAVE+ graduate Hanneke Niens
  • HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte
  • ICE GRAVE by Robin Hunzinger, producer: EAVE graduate Cédric Bonin
  • IMAGINARY NUMBERS by Jelica Jerinic, producer: Snezana van Houwelingen, co-producer: EAVE graduate Tina Tisljar
  • IN A WHISPER by Leyla Bouzid, producer: MW and EAVE graduate Caroline Nataf
  • IVÁN & HADOUM by Ian de la Rosa, producers: EAVE+ graduates José Alba and Odile Antonio-Baez, PUENTES graduate Flavia Biurrun, and EAVE graduate Hubert Toint
  • KALEVALA: THE STORY OF KULLERVO by Antti J. Jokinen, producer: EAVE+ graduate Marko Röhr
  • KARLA by Christina Tournatzés, producer: PUENTES graduate Jamila Wenske
  • KOMAR by Timur Makarevic, producers: EAVE and EAVE+ graduates Amra Bakšić Čamo and Adis Djapo
  • KRISTALLNACHT by Stefan Ruzowitzky, producers: EAVE graduate Danny Krausz and MW graduate Florian Krügel
  • LAST CALL by Sherif Francis, associate producer: EAVE, EAVE+ and Greek National Coordinator Konstantinos Kontovrakis
  • LAUNDRY by Zamo Mkhwanazi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Philippe Coeytaux
  • LIFE IS LIFE by Riccardo Milani, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa
  • LOCAL SHADOW by Eimi Imanishi, producers: EAVE graduate Belén Sánchez Silvero, PUENTES graduate Queralt Pons Serra
  • LONDON by Sebastian Brameshuber, producer: EAVE graduate David Bohun
  • MAIGRET AND THE DEAD LOVER, co-producer: EAVE graduate Jacques-Henri Bronckart
  • MAILIN by María Silvestre Esteve, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Radu Stancu
  • MELT by Nikolaus Geyrhalter, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger
  • MONKAM by Narcisse Wandji, producer: EAVE graduate Evodie Ngueyeli
  • MONSTER PABRIK RAMBUT (SLEEP NO MORE) by Edwin, co-producer: EAVE graduate Roshanak Behesht Nedjad
  • MOSQUITOES by Nicole Bertani and Valentina Bertani, producers: EAVE graduate Olga Lamontanara and EAVE+ graduate Michela Pini
  • NAK MUAY by Tinge, producer: TTB graduate Lee Thomas
  • NO GOOD MEN by   Shahrbanoo Sadat, producer: EAVE graduate Maximilian Haslberger
  • NOT A HERO by Rima Das, co-producer: FFF, TTB and EAVE graduate Fran Borgia
  • NOTHING BETWEEN US by Juan Taratuto, producer: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Sandino Saravia Vinay
  • OH, THIS UNSPEAKABLE VOID by Simon Verhoeven, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
  • ON OUR OWN by Tudor Cristian Jurgiu, producers: EAVE graduate Tudor Giurgiu and Bogdan Crăciun
  • PAPAYA by Priscilla Kellen, producer: EAVE and MW graduate Letícia Friedrich
  • PARADISE by Jérémy Comte, producer: EAVE graduate Fabian Westerhoff, associate producer: EAVE graduate Julie Viez
  • PET PEEVES by Javier Polo Gandía, producer: EAVE graduate Gerard Rodríguez
  • PROYECTO GLOBAL by Ivo Ferreira, co-producer: EAVE graduate Donato Rotunno
  • PROSECUTION by Faraz Shariat , producer: EAVE graduate Jorgo Narjes
  • PUENTES project NARCISO by Marcelo Martinessi, producer: PUENTES graduate Sebastián Peña Escobar
  • PUENTES project THE ANATOMY OF THE HORSES by Daniel Vidal Toche, producer: PUENTES graduate Ignacio Vuelta
  • RIVER DREAMS by Kristina Mikhailova, co-producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • ROSE by Markus Schleinzer, producers: EAVE graduate Johannes Schubert, Karsten Stöter
  • SAD GIRLZ by Fernanda Tovar, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Carlo D’Ursi
  • SALVATION by Emin Alper, co-producers: EAVE graduate Stienette Bosklopper, EAVE+ graduate Maarten Swart
  • SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar 
  • SHOT REVERSE SHOT by Radu Jude, Adrian Cioflâncă, producer: EAVE graduate Alex Teodorescu
  • SICKO by Aitore Zholdaskali, producer: EAVE graduate Anna Katchko
  • SILENT REBELLION by Marie-Elsa Sgualdo, producer: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes
  • SORELLA DI CLAUSURA by Ivana Mladenovic, producer: EAVE graduate Ada Solomon
  • SOULS OF FOUTA by Alpha Diallo, co-producer: Creative Producer Indaba graduate Souleymane Kébé
  • STEAL AWAY by Clement Virgo, producer: FFF, MW EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Peter De Maegd
  • STRANGE RIVER by Jaume Claret Muxart, producers: EAVE graduates Xavi Font, Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens 
  • STRAWBERRIES by Laïla Marrakchi, co-producers: EAVE graduate Elisa Heene, EAVE graduate Adrià Monés,
  • TELL ME EVERYTHING by Moshe Rosenthal, producer: MW graduate Gal Greenspan
  • THE BLOOD COUNTESS by Ulrike Ottinger, producer: EAVE+ graduate Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu
  • THE EDUCATION OF JANE CUMMING by Sophia Heldman, producers: EAVE+ graduate Bettina Brokemper, EAVE graduate Karen Koch, co-producer: EAVE graduate Nadira Murray
  • THE ETERNITY MAN by Ivan NIkolaichuk, co-producer: EAVE+ graduate Ikka Matila
  • THE EYES OF OTHERS by Andrea Se Sica, producer: Interchange graduate Marta Donzelli
  • THE FALL OF SIR DOUGLAS WEATHERFORD by Sean Robert Dunn, associate producer: EAVE participant Nadira Murray
  • THE FROG AND THE WATER by Thomas Stuber, co-producer: EAVE graduate Magdalena Welter
  • THE LAST RESORT by Maria Sødahl, co-producers: EAVE graduate Dyveke Bjørkly Graver, EAVE graduate Andrea Berentsen Ottmar
  • THE LIGHTS, THEY FALL by Saša Vajda, producer: EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried
  • THE MYSTERIOUS GAZE OF THE FLAMINGO by Diego Cespedes, producer: PUENTES and TTB graduate Giancarlo Nasi
  • THE OTHER SIDE OF THE SUN by Tawfik Sabouni, co-producer: EAVE graduate Hanne Phlypo
  • THE PALM LINE by Fulvio Bernasconi, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher
  • THE PHYSICIAN II by Philipp Stölzl, producer: EAVE graduate Petra Ivanyi
  • THE SQUIRREL by Markus Lehmusruusu, producers: EAVE graduate Misha Jaari and TTB and EAVE graduate Mark Lwoff, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Fleur Knopperts, Denis Vaslin
  • TRISTAN FOREVER by Tobias Nölle, Loran Bonnardot, producer: EAVE+ graduate Christof Neracher, associate producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduate Jean des Forêts, EAVE graduate Dan Wechsler
  • TRULY NAKED by Muriel d’Ansembourg, producers: TTB graduates Isabella Depeweg and Els Vandevorst, co-producers: EAVE+ graduate and TTB Head of Studies Christophe Bruncher, EAVE+ graduate Tom Dercourt, EAVE graduate Antonino Lombardo
  • UN ANNO DI SCUOLA by Laura Samani, producers: EAVE graduate Nadia Trevisan, EAVE graduate Thomas Lambert
  • UNSTOPPABLE by Martin Lund, producer: EAVE graduate Ruben Thorkildsen
  • VÄRN  by John Skoog, producer: EAVE graduate Caroline Drab, co-producer: EAVE graduates Per Damgaard Hansen, Misha Jaari, EAVE and TTB graduate Mark Lwoff, EAVE and EAVE+ graduate Leontine Petit
  • VEINS by Raymond St-Jean, producer: EAVE+ graduate Nicolas Comeau
  • VERSALLES by Andres Clariond, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolás Celis
  • WELDED TOGETHER by Anastasija Mirošničenko, producer: EAVE graduate Valérie Montmartin, co-producers: EAVE graduates Anton Iffland Stettner and Eva Kuperman
  • WE’LL FIND HAPPINESS by Léa Pool, producer: EAVE graduate Katarzyna Ozga
  • WHAT IS LOVE by Fabien Gorgeart, producers: EAVE and PUENTES graduates Jean des Forêts and Marie Dubas, MW graduate Amélie Jacquis
  • WHITE SNAIL by Elsa Kremser and Levin Peter, producers: EAVE graduate David Bohun and Heino Deckert
  • YELLOW LETTERS by lker Çatak, co-producer: EAVE graduate Enis Köstepen
  • YON LÄPSI by Hanna Bergholm, co-producer: TTB graduate Christopher Granier Deferre
  • ZEJTUNE by Alex Camilleri, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle

 

SAVE THE DATE!

EFM Far East in Progress

on Thursday, February 12th, 18:00–19:30 at Gropius Bau Cinema, access with Market & Festival Badge

Discover a new Works in Progress initiative jointly organised by EAVE Ties That Bind – Asia Europe Co_Production Workshop and the European Film Market (EFM).
The session will take place during Berlinale 2026 and will spotlight five Asian feature films currently in post-production, all produced by alumni of the Ties That Bind programme.

  • ONE MORE GOOD DAY by Natasha K. Sung, producer: TTB graduate Nobu Tsai Hsin Hung
  • RIA by Arvin Belarmino, produced by TTB and EAVE graduate Alemberg Ang
  • THE SEA SPEAKS HIS NAME by Yosep Anggi Noen, producer: TTB graduate Gita Fara
  • TTB project PICTUREHOUSE by Minh-Nghiem Nguyen-Vo, producer: TTB graduate Johann Chapelan
  • TTB project WILL YOU STILL BE MY FRIEND by Po-Shun Lu, producer: TTB graduate Yu-Hao Su

The session will be moderated by TTB Head of Studies and EAVE+ graduate Christophe Bruncher (Ici et Là Productions, France).

 

Morning Kick-Off: Producers' Breakfast Club

on Saturday, February 14th, 09:00 – 10:00, Innovation & Producers Café at Gropius Bau, access with Market Badge

The EFM, ACE Producers and EAVE invite you to kickstart your day at the Producers and Innovation Café, a refreshing and energising space where industry professionals come together to share insights, spark creativity, and build meaningful connections. Dive into an informal “meet & mingle” where producers and innovators from diverse backgrounds come together to exchange ideas, share experiences, and explore new opportunities for collaboration. With a coffee in hand and a pastry to enjoy, you’ll have the chance to network in a relaxed and open environment, perfect for forging new relationships and re-energising existing ones. Join us to fuel your creativity, connect with industry leaders, and start your day on a high note!

 

EAVE session: Does AI need you more than you need it? Five questions to find out.

on Saturday, February 14th, at 10:00, Gropius Bau, second floor, access with Market Badge

Speaker: EAVE expert Nicolò Gallio, Marketing Strategist & Audience Designer

Artificial intelligence promises efficiency and productivity, but what does that really mean for film professionals? In this interactive talk, EAVE expert Nicolò Gallio will walk through five questions to test where AI genuinely adds value, where it still falls short, and why human judgement remains essential when working with machines. More information here.

 

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7 awards for EAVE producers at Sundance

We are pleased to announce seven awards for EAVE producers at the Sundance Film Festival, including the World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize for EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN!

Congratulations to the producers, filmmakers, and film crews behind these outstanding achievements! Remarkably, EAVE producers took home an incredible 70% of all World Cinema awards.

 

World Cinema Documentary Grand Jury Prize

EAVE project TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN by Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazic, producers: EAVE graduates Biljana Tutorov, Anton Iffland Stettner, Eva Kuperman, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lucila Moctezuma

The Jury's Statement: "This visually and emotionally stunning film transported us to a remote mountain top and into the most intimate moments of a family fighting to protect not only their land, but their way of life. The truest example of the power of cinema to make the personal political."

Grand Jury Prize in the World Cinema Dramatic Competition

SHAME AND MONEY by Visar Morina, producers: EAVE graduate Fabian Altenried, PUENTES graduate Sophie Ahrens, co-producers: EAVE graduates Besnik Krapi, Marija Dimitrova, EAVE+ graduate Danijel Hocevar 

World Cinema Dramatic Audience Award

HOLD ON TO ME by Myrsini Aristidou, co-producers: EAVE graduate Konstantina Stavrianou

World Cinema Dramatic Special Jury Award for Creative Vision

FILIPIÑANA by Rafael Manuel, producer: producers: TTB graduates Bradley Liew and Jeremy Chua TTB group leader Bianca Balbuena

World Cinema Dramatic Directing Award

HOW TO DIVORCE DURING THE WAR by Andrius Balezvicius, producer: EAVE graduate Marija Razgute, co-producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Kostal, Vincent Quenault, associate producer: MW graduate Brigita Beniusyte

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Journalistic Impact

BIRDS OF WAR by Janay Boulos & Abd Alkader Habak, producer: EAVE+ graduate Sonja Henrici

World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Civil Resistance

EVERYBODY TO KENMURE STREET by Felipe Bustos Sierra, producer: EAVE graduate Ciara Barry 

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