The Gold Rush Pictures Jury Award for Berlinale Talents - The Golden Eggs

Gold Rush Pictures is proud to partner with the Berlin International Film Festival’s prestigious filmmaker development programme, Berlinale Talents, the first collaboration of its kind between the initiative’s recently redeveloped Lab and a production company, marking the start of a multi-year partnership. Through this collaboration, GRP will sponsor up to three Gold Rush Pictures Jury Awards – The Golden Eggs – awarding development grants totalling €15,000 to selected filmmakers from the Berlinale Talents Lab cohort, alongside travel and accommodation support and accreditation for the Cannes Film Festival, where the winners will be celebrated.

Meet the Jury

The awards will be judged by a jury appointed by GRP, featuring award-winning British screenwriter and director Rebecca Lenkiewicz, acclaimed Austrian-German director and producer Feo Aladag (When We Leave, Inbetween Worlds), and renowned German director Tom Tykwer (The Light, Run Lola Run).

Rebecca Lenkiewicz

Feo Aladag

Tom Tykwer

Meet the Nominees

Drawn from the Berlinale Talents Lab cohort, this year’s nominees represent a diverse group of emerging filmmakers at a pivotal stage in their development. Selected for the strength of their creative vision, originality of voice and the ambition of their projects, each nominee reflects the forward-looking spirit of the programme. Spanning a range of disciplines, backgrounds and storytelling approaches, they embody the next generation of international cinema, with projects that push boundaries and signal strong potential for global impact.

Aliaksei Paluyan

Incubator (Inkubator)

Carlos Hernández Vázquez

The Color Of The Land (El Color De La Tierra)

Cris Gris

Lucius Luz

Dean Colin Marcial

Worcester

Francesco Manzato

4.3 Kilometers

Hoi Ying Chu

The Soft Weight of Mud

Jose Lorenzo Diokno

Harvest

Katerina Suvorova

A Tale Of Sea Dogs And Other Creatures

Lur Olaizola Lizarralde

Hotel Niza

Marcel Beltrán

Vicissitudes of Light (Vicisitudes de la Luz)

Mehrnoush Alia

Negin Dead End (Bon Bast Negin)

Ngima Gelu Sherpa

Tent City and I

Nicole Midori Woodford

Incarnation

Subarna Dash

In Heat, on Loop

Michelle & Uri Kranot

A Free People

Wilmarc Val

Voodoo (Vodou)

Makayla Ya-Chih Cheng

The Animal WIthin

Yuhi Amuli

Mariya

About Berlinale Talents

For more than 20 years, Berlinale Talents has served as one of world’s most unique and sought-after talent development initiatives. An incubator for talent for the Berlin International Film festival, each year the programme invites 200 of the world’s top emerging filmmakers from 15 different fields of work across the film world. The focal point is the Berlinale Talents Summit, which takes place during the Berlinale in February, and offers a wide-ranging programme of workshops, panel talks, discussions and networking opportunities, alongside the Berlinale Talents Lab and Talent Project Market. The Lab welcomes 20 Berlinale Talents alumni with projects in development and the Talent Project Market offers Berlinale Talents producer alumni seeking co-production and/or financing the chance to pitch to industry colleagues at the Berlinale Co-Production Market. With an alumni community of over 10,000 film professionals around the world, Berlinale Talents is one of the largest global film networks. Beyond the Summit, it offers a number of year-round initiatives for its filmmakers, a true lifetime community.