EAVE @ the 75th Berlin International Film Festival

press release

EAVE is proud to announce a very strong presence of EAVE projects & producers at this year's Berlin Film Festival: 11 films in COMPETITION, 5 films in the PERSPECTIVES section, 5 in BERLINALE SPECIAL, 11 in PANORAMA, 10 at the FORUM, 12 at the GENERATION sections, 17 at the BERLINALE CO-PRODUCTION MARKET and its sidebar sections, and 2 at the TALENT PROJECT MARKET!

Competition

• ARI by Léonor Seraille, co-producer: EAVE graduate Benoit Roland
• BLUE MOON by Richard Linklater, executive producers: EAVE graduates Macdara Kelleher, John Keville
• HOT MILK by Rebecca Lenkiewicz, producer: EAVE+ graduate Giorgios Karnavas, executive producer: EAVE graduate and Greek National Coordinator Konstantinos Kontovrakis
• KONTINENTAL '25 by Radu Jude, producer: EAVE graduate Alexandru Teodorescu
• MOTHER’S BABY by Johanna Moder, producer: EAVE graduate Oliver Neumann
• REFLECTION IN A DEAD DIAMOND by Hélène Cattet, Bruno Forzani, producer: EAVE graduate Gilles Chanial
• THE BLUE TRAIL by Gabriel Mascaro, producers: EAVE graduates Rachel Daisy Ellis, Sandino Saravia Vinay, co-producers: EAVE graduates Giancarlo Nasi, Marleen Slot
• THE ICE TOWER by Lucile Hadzihalilovic, co-producer: EAVE graduate Ingmar Trost
• THE SAFE HOUSE (LA CACHE) by Lionel Baier, co-producer: EAVE graduate Vincent Quénault
• TIMESTAMP by Kateryna Gornostai, producer: EAVE graduate Reinier Selen, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marion Guth, François Le Gall
• YUNAN by Ameer Fakher Eldin, producers: EAVE graduates Dorothe Beinemeier, Marco Valerio Fusco, Tony Copti, EAVE participant Jiries Copti

Perspectives

• HOW TO BE NORMAL AND THE ODDNESS OF THE OTHER WORLD by Florian Pochlatko, producers: EAVE graduates Arash T. Riahi, Sabine Gruber
• LITTLE TROUBLE GIRLS by Urska Djukic, producer: EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar, EAVE graduate Miha Cernec, co-producers: EAVE graduates Marina Gumzi, Dragana Jovovic, Katarina Prpic
• PUNCHING THE WORLD by Constanze Klaue, producers: EAVE graduates Alexander Wadouh, Gabriele Simon, Martin Heisler, Roxana Richters
• PUENTES project THE DEVIL SMOKES (AND SAVES THE BURNT MATCHES IN THE SAME BOX) by Ernesto Martínez Bucio, producer: PUENTES graduate Carlos Hernandez Vazquez
• THE SETTLEMENT by Mohamed Rashad, co-producer: EAVE graduate Kesmat El Sayed

Berlinale Special

• ANCESTRAL VISIONS OF THE FUTURE by Lemohang Mosese, co-producer: EAVE graduate Laura Kloeckner
• ISLANDS by Jan-Ole Gerster, producer: EAVE+ graduate Jonas Katzenstein
• KÖLN 75 by Ido Fluk, producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle
• NO BEAST. SO FIERCE. by Burhan Qurbani, producer: EAVE graduate Beata Rzeźniczek
• THE BEST MOTHER IN THE WORLD by Anna Muylaert, executive producer: PUENTES graduate and EAVE participant Leonardo Mecchi

Panorama

• BEGINNINGS by Jeanette Nordahl, producers: EAVE graduate Katrin Pors, TTB graduate Mikkel Jersin, co-producers: PUENTES graduate Nima Yousefi, EAVE graduate Leontine Petit
• CICADAS by Ina Weisse, co-producer: EAVE graduate Sebastien Haguenauer
• DELICIOUS by Nele Mueller-Stöfen, producer: EAVE graduate Jonas Dornbach
• DREAMS IN NIGHTMARES by Shatara Michelle Ford, executive producer: TTB graduate David Yu-Hao Su
• EAVE project YALLA PARKOUR by Areeb Zuaiter, producer: EAVE graduate Basel Mawlawi, executive producer: EAVE graduate Lisa Nyed
• LOOKING FOR LANGSTON by Isaac Julien, producer: EAVE graduate Nadine Marsh-Edwards
• NIGHT STAGE by Marcio Reolon, Filipe Matzembacher, producer: PUENTES graduate Paola Wink
• PETER HUJAR’S DAY by Ira Sachs, co-producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle
• THE HEART IS A MUSCLE by Imran Hamdulay, producer: EAVE graduate Khosie Dali
• THE UGLY STEPSISTER by Emilie Blichfeldt, co-producers: EAVE graduates Lizette Jonjic, Mariusz Wlodarski
• UNDER THE FLAGS, THE SUN by Juanjo Pereira, producers: PUENTES graduates Gabriela Sabaté, Paula Zyngierman, Leandro Listorti

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Forum

• CANNONE EFFIMERO by Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Seri, producer: PUENTES graduate Alessandro Borrelli
• EAVE project THE KISS OF THE GRASSHOPPER by Elmar Imanov, producer: EAVE graduate Eva Blondiau, co-producers: EAVE MW and FFF graduates Adolf El Assal, Marta Zaccaron
• EIGHTY PLUS by Zelimir Zilnik, co-producers: EAVE graduate Miha Cernec and EAVE graduate and Slovenian National Coordinator Jozko Rutar
• IF YOU ARE AFRAID YOU PUT YOUR HEART INTO YOUR MOUTH AND SMILE by Marie Luise Lehner, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger
• MINIMALS IN A TITANIC WORLD by Philbert Aimé Mbabazi Sharangabo, co-producers: EAVE graduates Alexander Wadouh, Roxana Richters
• OUR TIME WILL COME by Ivette Löcker, producers: EAVE graduate and Austrian National Coordinator Barbara Pichler, EAVE graduate Gabriele Kranzelbinder
• THE SWAN SONG OF FEDOR OZEROV by Juri Semashko, producer: EAVE+ graduate Kestutis Drazdauskas
• TIGER’S POND by Natesh Hegde, co-producer: TTB graduate Jeremy Chua
• UNDERGROUND by Kaori Oda, producer: TTB graduate Ryohei Tsutsui

Forum Expanded

• THE ORCHARDS by Antoine Chapon, producer: CPI graduate Thomas Hakim

Generation

Generation Kplus

• CIRCUSBOY by Anna Koch, Julia Lemke, producers: EAVE participant Katharina Bergfeld, EAVE graduate Martin Heisler
• DOWN IN THE DUMPS by Vera van Wolferen, producer: EAVE graduate Noortje Wilschut
• ONLY ON EARTH by Robin Petré, producers: EAVE graduates Marieke van den Bersselaar, Signe Skov Thomsen
• TALES FROM THE MAGIC GARDEN by David Súkup, Patrik Pašš, Leon Vidmar, Jean-Claude Rozec, producer: EAVE graduate Juraj Krasnohorsky
• THE NATURE OF INVISIBLE THINGS by Rafaela Camelo, co-producer: EAVE MW graduate Rebeca Gutiérrez Campos, executive producer: PUENTES graduate Fred Burle
• THE THIEF by Christoffer Rizvanovic Stenbakken, executive producer: EAVE graduate Maria Møller Christoffersen

Generation 14plus

• DON'T WAKE THE SLEEPING CHILD by Kevin Aubert, producer: CPI graduate Chloé Ortolé
• OUR WILDEST DAYS by Vasilis Kekatos, producers: EAVE graduate Guillaume Dreyfus, PUENTES graduate Delphine Schmit, co-producers: EAVE graduate Julie Esparbes, PUENTES graduate Jamila Wenske
• PATERNAL LEAVE by Alissa Jung, producer: FFF graduate Lorenzo Gangarossa
• SANDBAG DAM by Cejen Cernic Canak, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Ankica Juric Tilic, co-producers: EAVE graduates Ieva Norviliene, Marija Stojanovic
• SUNSHINE by Antoinette Jadaone, co-producer: TTB graduate and group leader Bianca Balbuena
• VILLAGE ROCKSTARS 2 by Rima Das, co-producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Fran Borgia 

Shorts

• THROUGH YOUR EYES by Nelson Yeo,executive producer: TTB graduate Wilfredo C. Manalang

Berlinale Co-Production Market

Official Feature Project Selection 2025

• 30 DAYS OF SUMMER by Anastasiia Solonevych, producer: EAVE MW graduate Aleksandra Kostina
• A FEW MILES SOUTH by Ben Pearce, producer: EAVE graduate Jan Naszewski
• A PLACE IN THE WORLD by Ayse Polat, producer: EAVE graduate Nicole Gerherds
• DREAMGIRL by Kaan Müjdeci, producer: EAVE graduate Olena Yershova
• GALERNA by Tatiana Huezo, producer: PUENTES graduate Nicolas Celis
• HAPPY DAYS by Floor van der Meulen, producers: EAVE graduates Derk-Jan Warrink, Koji Nelissen 
• HOLIDAY by Wissam Charaf, producer: Interchange graduate Charlotte Vincent
• KONBINI by Pedro Collantes, producer: TTB graduate Pedro Hernandez
• LENDE by Katy Lena Ndiaye, producer: EAVE graduate Nezha Cohen
• THE FUNERAL by Carolina Markowicz, producer: EAVE+ graduate Karen Castanho
• THE MAGIC HOUR by Radu Muntean, producers: EAVE graduates Annamaria Antoci, Anda Ionescu

Berlinale Directors projects

• THE BLOCK UNIVERSE by EAVE graduate Stephan Komandarev

Rotterdam-Berlinale Express

• MEAT by Rioghnach Ni Ghrioghair, producer: EAVE graduate Deidre Levins

Company Matching Programme

• EAVE graduate Alex Lo, Cinema Inutile, USA & Japan
• EAVE graduate Julie Cöllen, Fünferfilm, Germany
• EAVE graduate and Polish National Coordinator Aga Wasiak, Lava Films, Poland
• EAVE graduate Yulia Evina Bhara, KawanKawan Media, Indonesia
• EAVE graduate and US National Coordinator Melissa Adeyemo and EAVE graduate Yanis Gaye, Yetu (Un)limited, Senegal, Nigeria, Kenya & Ghana

Copro Series

• OUR PEOPLE by Tereza Nvotova, producers: EAVE graduates Jakub Viktorin
• RECIPES FOR A NERVOUS BREAKDOWN by Sophie White, producer: EAVE graduate Ailish McElmeel
• RUTH’S GHOSTS by Jennifer Fox, producer: TTB graduate Frauke Kolbmüller
• SHIT HAPPENS by Arman T. Riahi, David Wagner, producer: EAVE graduate and group leader Michael Kitzberger

Talent Project Market

• HUM by Don Josephus Raphael Eblahan, producer: EAVE and TTB graduate Alemberg Ang
• THE SERPENT by Diogo Hayashi, producer: EAVE and CPI graduate Julia Alves

Berlinale Talents

• EAVE graduate Serena Alfieri
• PUENTES graduate Mayra Faour Auad
• EAVE participant Gerard Rodriguez
• PUENTES graduate Joy Jorgensen
• EAVE MW graduate Helene Walland
• EAVE and CPI graduate Julia Alves
• CHANGE graduate Anna Khazaradze
• EAVE graduate Carla Fotea

Junior Entertainment Talent Slate

• RIOT GIRL SUMMER, producer: EAVE graduate Daniel Hegarty

SAVE THE DATE!

EAVE session: AI Playbook 101: Everyday Tools for the Independent Producer

on Saturday, February 15th, at 15:30, Gropius Bau, second floor

Speaker: EAVE graduate and group leader Joanna Szymańska

Joanna explores her evolving relationship with AI tools, moving beyond the usual buzzwords like “optimization” and “efficiency.” Through personal experiences and real-world examples, she’ll dive into practical uses of AI for independent producers—from drafting emails and synthesising research to analysing scripts and brainstorming audience design ideas. The session will also touch on how AI can unlock human creativity and how producers can keep up (or at least not fall too far behind) in this rapidly changing technological landscape.

Morning Kick-Off: Producers' Breakfast Club

on Saturday, February 15th, 09:00 – 10:00, Innovation & Producers Café at Gropius Bau

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!

MEET EAVE IN BERLIN

EAVE table #216 at the innovation hub on the second floor of the MGB (Martin Gropius Bau) and Creative Europe MEDIA stand (Central Hall, Stand number: 24) of the EFM.

To arrange a meeting, please contact satu@eave.org!

• Tina Trapp, CEO:  February 15 - 18
• Satu Elo, Deputy CEO:  February 13 - 18

Page published 12 February 2025. Updated 13 February 2025.