EFP European Film Promotion and its member organisations are delighted to announce that 54 alumni of the EFP talent programmes EUROPEAN SHOOTING STARS, PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE (PoM) and FUTURE FRAMES are represented at the 76th Berlin International Film Festival with a total of 36 films across various sections.
Alumni take centre stage in fully half of this year’s Competition titles. Among them is Belgian Shooting Star 2024 Thibaud Dooms, who appears in Dust by Anke Blondé, a co-production by Giorgos Karnavas (PoM 2013, Greece), with Marleen Slot (PoM 2013, the Netherlands) serving as associate producer. German Shooting Star 2005 Max Riemelt takes on a leading role in Eva Trobisch’s Home Stories, while Finnish Shooting Star 2021 Seidi Haarla stars in Nightborn by Hanna Bergholm.
Several current and former Shooting Stars are reunited on the big screen at this year’s Berlinale. Most notably, this edition’s Belgian Shooting Star Violet Braeckman stars in Heysel 85 by Teodora Ana Mihai alongside fellow actor and Shooting Star alumnus Matteo Simoni (2018). Swiss Shooting Star 2018 Luna Wedler and German Shooting Star 2015 Jannis Niewöhner feature in Allegro Pastell, directed by Anna Roller, a participant in FUTURE FRAMES 2019. Norwegian Shooting Star 2023 Kristine Kujath Thorp and Swedish Shooting Star 2021 Gustav Lindh star together in A Prayer for the Dying, the feature debut of Dara Van Dusen, produced by Dyveke Bjørkly Graver (PoM 2019, Norway) and co-produced by Mimmi Spång (PoM 2011, Norway).
Irish Shooting Star 2005 Mark O’Halloran is represented at the Berlinale with Everybody Digs Bill Evans by Grant Gee, for which he wrote the screenplay. The film was produced by Irish Producers on the Move alumnus Alan Maher (2017), with fellow alumni John Wallace (2020) and David McLoughlin (2003) serving as executive producers. In Nina Roza by Geneviève Dulude-de Celles, Nikolay Mutafchiev (PoM 2021, Bulgaria) is credited both as producer and actor.
On the production side, Bettina Brokemper (PoM 2006, Germany) and Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu (PoM 2023, Luxembourg) are each represented with more than one film. Together, they produced The Blood Countess by Ulrike Ottinger, starring Austrian Shooting Star 2001 Birgit Minichmayr in the leading role. Bettina Brokemper is also behind the Competition title The Education of Jane Cumming by Sophie Heldman, featuring Irish Shooting Star 2022 Clare Dunne. In addition, Alexander Dumreicher-Ivanceanu serves as producer of Women as Lovers, the debut feature by Koxi, starring German Shooting Star 2006 Johanna Wokalek as well as of Roya by Mahnaz Mohammadi, running in the Panorama section.
Please find HERE the full list of films with alumnis of EFP's talent programmes.
All three programmes are made possible thanks to the support of the Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme of the European Union and the participating national film institutes, EFP’s member organisations. PRODUCERS ON THE MOVE is additionally supported by Eurimages.
