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
The Last Barones
A rebellious baroness longing for freedom must protect her family legacy as war and rising regimes threaten to erase her world from Central Europe.
Country: Slovakia
Genre: Period Drama
Format: 6 x 50′
Creator(s): Biba Bohinská
Production: Katarína Krnáčová (Silverart, 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.
Country: Germany
Genre: adult animation sitcom
Format: 10 x 25’
Creator(s): Elena Lyubarskaya
Writer(s): Elena Lyubarskaya, Yashar Alishenas
Production company: Elena Lyubarskaya, The Dream Room UG
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.
Country: Taiwan, South Korea
Genre: action, crime
Format: 8 x 45’
Creator(s): Danielle Yen, Fu-Hsiang Hsu
Writer(s): Yi-Wei Hsiao, CHEN Liang-tzu, LIN Yun-shan
Production: PARK Tae-joon, Mio LIANG (Select Entertainment Film Production Co., Ltd., Taiwan)
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?
Country: The Netherlands
Genre: Documentary
Format: 6 x 45′
Creator(s): Finbarr Wilbrink
Producer(s) and company(s): De Haaien Attached
Broadcaster: VPRO
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.
Format: 4 × 45’
Genre: musical series (Based on the international Broadway phenomenon by Georg Kreisler)
Headwriter: Gabbie Asher
Production company: Boogie Entertainment GmbH / ZDF Studios
Producers: Rolant Hergert, Titus Kreyenberg
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.
Country: Finland, Sweden
Genre: Cozy mystery romance (Based on: The novel ‘SUMMER AT VILLA HILDA’)
Format: 8 x 22′
Creator(s): Roosa Toivonen, Eriikka Etholen-Paju
Producer(s): Roosa Toivonen, Inka Hietala, Petri Kemppinen
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Zebras
When a zebra steals the spotlight from the Berlin Bear, four expats ride the chaos toward self-discovery.
Country: France, Germany
Genre: Dramedy
Format: 6 x 30′
Production company: La Onda productions
Creators: Nadja Dumouchel, Nicolas Ducray
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.
Country: Germany
Genre: Coming of Age, Dramedy
Format: 8 x 45’
Creator(s): Alexander (Alex) Tanglao, Miguel Gallo
Automat
A school trip spirals into a digital maze where truth bends and only one skill can save them: the power to think critically.
A mystery-adventure series for young audiences— exploring idendity, technology, and trust in the age of artficial intelligence.
Format: 8 x 15’
Genres: Sci-fi · Tech-Mystery · Coming-of-Age (2.5D-animated)
Country: Germany
Creator(s): Christoph Rohrscheidt
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.
Country: Nigeria
Genre: African Period Epic/Saga
Format: 8 x 60’
Macher*in: Kaelo Iyizoba
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.
Country: Lithuania
Genre: drama, comedy
Format: 8 x 50’
Creator(s): Domante Urmonaite, Martynas Mendelis
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.
Project nationality: Germany, Romania
Genre: Sci-Fi, coming of age, psychological drama
Format: 8 x 60’
Creator: Vlady Valentin Oszkiel
Producer: Su-Jin Song (autumn song production, DE), Elliot Blitzerhoof (Post Apocalypse Co., USA)
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.
Country: Italy
Genre: horror, black comedy, social issues
Format: 13 x 30’
Creator(s): Ilaria Fravolini
The State Operetta
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Country: Austria
Genre: political dramedy
Format: 8 x 45’
Creator(s): Daniel Hoesl, Julia Niemann
Producers: Ula Okrojek, Herwig Krawinkler (Satel Film/AT)
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.
Country: Germany, Switzerland
Genre: mystery
Format: 7 x 40’
Creator(s): Wero Rodowicz
Head Writer: Mariama Djité
Writers: Marshall Rahel Maihofer Demirovic, Maria Neheimer
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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