Launched by the online professional platform Coprocity, which works in partnership with 18 co-production markets, the Coprocity Development Award will be presented for the fourth time and it’s set to be contested by 10 projects this year, consisting of nine fiction titles and one documentary.
Among the contestants is the Sofia Meetings project The Passport by Rakan Mayasi! We wish him and the producers good luck!
The winning project will be revealed by Cineuropa and the prize will be awarded within the Nordic Film Market (28 - 30 January 2026) as part of the Göteborg Film Festival.
The co-production markets partnering with Coprocity are CineMart IFFR, Brussels International Film Festival Co-Production Market, When East Meets West, Torino Film Lab, Connecting Cottbus, Les Arcs Industry Village, Baltic Event, Thessaloniki - Agora Crossroads and Agora Docs, Milano Industry Days MFN, Sofia Meetings, Ventana Sur, Young Horizons Industry, Dot.on.the.Map, Göteborg Industry, D'A Film Lab Barcelona, New Horizons Polish Days and Karlovy Vary IFF Eastern Promises.
The selected projects are as follows:
Honor of Persia - Zar Amir
Producer: Mohammad Farokhmanesh for brave new work GmbH (Germany)
Co-producers: Taha Moghani for Alambic Production (France) and Jacob Jarek for Profile Pictures (Denmark) / International sales: The Match Factory
In Vacuo - Yelizaveta Smith
Producer: Eugene Rachkovsky for Tabor (Ukraine)
Josie Goes to War - Coline Confort
Producer: Jean-Stéphane Bron for Bande à part (Switzerland)
Co-producer: Delphine Tomson for Les Films du Fleuve (Belgium)
My Name is Lily - Yianna Americanou
Producer: Stelana Kliris for Meraki Films (Cyprus)
Co-producers: Ioanna Bolomyti for Atalante Productions (Greece) and Elisa Heene for Mirage (Belgium)
The Legend of Salamanders - Catherine Maximoff
Producer: Patrice Nezan for Les Contes Modernes (France)
The Passport - Rakan Mayasi
Producers: Zorana Musikic for Mayana Films (Germany) and May Odeh for Odeh Films (Palestine/Germany)
Co-producers: Abdallah Al Ramahi for Zenobia Digital Productions (Jordan) and Annabella Nezri for Kwassa Films (Belgium)
The Price of Gold (Pretul Aurului) - Eugen Jebeleanu
Producers: Carla Fotea and Ada Solomon for microFILM (Romania)
Tropical Malaise (Malestar Tropical) - Jorge Cadena
Producers: Yan Decopet and Gabriela Bussmann for GoldenEggProduction (Switzerland)
Co-producer: Juliette Lepoutre for Still Moving (France)
War Fever - Ineke Smits
Producer: Denis Vaslin for Volya Films (Netherlands)
Documentary project
We're Leaving (Wyjeżdżamy) - Kamil Krawczycki
Producer: Agnieszka Wasiak for Lava Films (Poland)
Co-producer: Iris Otten for Juliet (Netherlands)
Congratulations to all!