SERIESLY BERLIN PITCHES
The Seriesly Berlin Pitches 2025 took place on 17 September at Fotografiska Berlin.
A total of 16 new serial projects were presented, with eight in the Co-Production Pitch and eight in the Writers’ Pitch, showcasing innovative storytelling from across Europe and beyond. The selected teams competed for awards and connected with potential partners for financing, co-production and international collaboration.
Accredited participants also had the opportunity to take part in exclusive one-on-one meetings with the selected writers and producers in a dedicated networking space.
The awarded projects of Seriesly Berlin Pitches 2025:
“The People We Eat” (Italy) by Ilaria Fravolini – Writers’ Pitch Award, sponsored by UFA Fiction
“Villa Hilda” (Finland/Sweden) by Roosa Toivonen and Eriikka Etholen-Paju – Co-Pro Pitch Award
“The State Operetta” (Austria) by Daniel Hoesl and Julia Niemann – SteinbrennerMüller Award
“The Last Family on Earth” (Germany) by Elena Lyubarskaya – SteinbrennerMüller Award
Special Mentions: “All Our Fathers Are Dead” (Germany) and “The Last Family on Earth” (Germany)
Explore the summaries of all presented projects here:
SERIESLY BERLIN CO-PRO PITCHES 2025
Indi/Pendent
A jaded Berlin musician and her estranged Indian cousin accidentally write a song that might just take Germany to Eurovision.
Comedy, music I 6 x 30’
Creators: Drishya Gautham, Nicolas Chevaillier
Production: Mathivanan Rajendran (Stray Factory, India)
Countries: Germany, India
The Last Baroness
A rebellious baroness longing for freedom must protect her family legacy as war and rising regimes threaten to erase her world from Central Europe.
Period drama I 6 x 50′
Creators: Katarína Krnáčová, Nataša Ďuričová, Diana Kacarová Starinská
Production: Katarína Krnáčová (Silverart)
Country: Slovakia
The Last Family on Earth
In the near future, Maria and Anvar Lieb are about to get a divorce and lose their status as the Last Family on Earth when the apocalypse hits and forces their whole dysfunctional family unit to stay and survive together.
Adult animation sitcom I 10 x 25’
Creator: Elena Lyubarskaya
Writers: Elena Lyubarskaya, Yashar Alishenas
Production: Elena Lyubarskaya (The Dream Room)
Country: Germany
The Life Changers
To uncover his wife’s death, Jing-Cheng forms “Dark Fern,” using film crew aliases to carry out vigilante justice until one case puts him in danger.
Action, crime I 8 x 45’
Creators: Danielle Yen, Fu-Hsiang Hsu
Writers: Yi-Wei Hsiao, CHEN Liang-tzu, LIN Yun-shan
Production: PARK Tae-joon, Mio LIANG (Select Entertainment Film Production Co., Ltd., Taiwan)
Countries: Taiwan, South Korea
The Promise of India
A journey through the lives and dreams of Indian millennials; caught between tradition and modernity, opportunity and challenge. Can the world’s youngest nation fulfill its promise?
Documentary I 6 x 45′
Creator: Finbarr Wilbrink
Production: De Haaien
Attached broadcaster: VPRO
Country: The Netherlands
Tonight: Lola Blau
Tonight: Lola Blau is not just a musical, not just a historical drama but a vibrant exploration of identity, memory, and resilience, brought to life through a rich blend of narrative, music, and performance.
Musical series I 4 × 45’
Head writer: Gabbie Asher
Productions: Rolant Hergert, Titus Kreyenberg (Boogie Entertainment) / ZDF Studios
Country: Germany
Villa Hilda
Disgraced celebrity chef Louise and burned-out one hit-wonder author Thomas escape their mid-life (and other) crises to run a small hotel and restaurant on a remote island. When their past catches up on them, there’s nowhere to hide – so they finally have to confront their shortgivings and mistakes to learn how to love, forgive and forget.
Cozy mystery romance I 8 x 22′
Creators: Roosa Toivonen, Eriikka Etholen-Paju
Production: Roosa Toivonen, Inka Hietala, Petri Kemppinen (Good Hand Film & TV Oy)
Countries: Finland, Sweden
Zebras
When a zebra steals the spotlight from the Berlin Bear, four expats ride the chaos toward self-discovery.
Dramedy I 6 x 30′
Creators: Nadja Dumouchel, Nicolas Ducray
Production: Baptiste Bertin (La Onda Productions)
Countries: France, Germany
SERIESLY BERLIN WRITER’S PITCHES 2025
All Our Fathers Are Dead
After the tragic deaths of their fathers, a group of teenage boys in early-2010s Berlin form a club to teach themselves how to become men. Through a series of chaotic challenges —part Fight Club, part Boy Scouts—they push their bodies, friendships, and beliefs to the limit, only to discover that modern manhood isn’t what it used to be.
Coming of age, dramedy I 8 x 45’
Creators: Alexander (Alex) Tanglao, Miguel Gallo
Country: Germany
Automat
A school trip spirals into a digital maze where truth bends and only one skill can save them: the power to think critically.
Sci-fi, tech-mystery, coming of age (2.5D-animated) I 8 x 15’
Creator: Christoph Rohrscheidt
Production: Sven Otto (FILMGARNITUR)
Country: Germany
Birthright
In 19th-century Nigeria, A man saved as a child by ancient gods, now secretly profits from the slave trade of his people. As British colonial forces and Christianity expand, they threaten to eradicate the very deities who spared his life. Now the gods call on him to fight for them, or die with them.
African period epic/saga I 8 x 60’
Creator: Kaelo Iyizoba
Country: Nigeria
Chatbots Don’t Kill People (European Writers’ Desk Wild Card)
After an AI chatbot is blamed for a man’s suicide, a travel agent Laura uncovers a tech-fueled conspiracy – while battling her own screen addiction.
Drama, comedy I 8 x 50’
Creators: Domante Urmonaite, Martynas Mendelis
Country: Lithuania
N.I.M.R.O.D.
A troubled teen stumbles upon an abandoned psychological weapon from the Cold War. Reviving it grants him immense power, until it threatens to erase him.
Sci-fi, coming of age, psychological drama I 8 x 60’
Creator: Vlady Valentin Oszkiel
Countries: Germany, Romania
The People We Eat
The quiet life of a Danish family of cannibals is disrupted when their teenage daughter Betina decides to become a strict vegetarian, and a nosy conspiracy theorist becomes their new neighbor.
Horror, black comedy, social issues I 13 x 30’
Creator: Ilaria Fravolini
Countries: Italy, Denmark
The State Operetta
The State Operetta is a genre picture of our democracy – absurd, abysmal, frighteningly funny – and devastatingly realistic.
Political dramedy I 8 x 45’
Creators: Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Production: Ula Okrojek, Herwig Krawinkler (Satel Film)
Country: Austria
Who’s Burning Now
When a German-Swiss teenager discovers her roots are both of a witch and a witch hunter, she’s thrust into a secret war of magic, folklore, and forbidden love that could either break a centuries-old curse or burn her world to ash.
Mystery I 7 x 40’
Creator: Maria Neheimer, Wero Rodowicz, Marshall Maihofer Demirovic
Head writer: Mariama Djité
Main writers: (Concept) Wero Rodowicz, Marshall Maihofer Demirovic, Maria Neheimer. (Pilot) Maria Neheimer, Marshall Maihofer Demirovic. (Season) Mariama Djité, Marshall Maihofer Demirovic, Maria Neheimer.
Countries: Germany, Switzerland
Accredited participants will also have the opportunity to take part in exclusive one-on-one meetings with the selected writers and producers in a dedicated meeting space at Fotografiska Berlin where the Seriesly Berlin Conference is held.
Alongside with the general pitch awards, the SteinbrennerMüller Award will honor for the first time one German-language project from each pitch sessions that, in the opinion of the jury, has the greatest potential to be successful with audiences. They will receive a communications concept from the Berlin based agency of the same name for the production phase worth €2,000 each.
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