The 85th Berlinale will mark the first ever entrance of serial format in the festival’s history. Two Scandi series backed by the Fund –Follow the Money and Blue Eyes will screen as Berlinale Special entries, while Heartless will make its entrance at the Generation Kplus sidebar. A total of five films supported by Nordisk Film & TV Fond have been selected for Berlin’s various sidebars.

The first two of 10 episodes of DR’s flagship drama Follow the Money (Bedraget) will have its world premiere in Berlin on February 10. Set in the world of financial crime, the series is written by Jeppe Gjervig Gram (Borgen) and directed by Per Fly. The premiere on DR1 is set for early 2016. DR Sales handles world sales on DR’s in-house production, as well as on the supernatural thriller Heartless produced by Fridthjof Film for Kanal 5 Denmark.

The Swedish political thriller Blue Eyes (Blå Ögon) written by Alex Haridi (Real Humans) premiered on SVT last November. The Strix Drama production is sold by ZDF Enterprises. 

The Berlinale Special Gala section will present the Icelandic film Virgin Mountain (previously known as Fúsi) by Dagur Kári, about a late bloomer who finds love and enters adulthood.

In the Generation section four Nordic titles are vying for a Crystal Bear including Antboy the Revenge of the Red Fury by Danish director Ask Hasselbalch and My Skinny Sister by Swedish newcomer Sanna Lenken.

The first ever Greenlandic film showcased in Berlin - Sumé, the Sound of a Revolution - directed by Inuk Silis Høegh is competing in the Panorama Dokumente section. The film features the influential Greenlandic rock band Sumé from the 1970s that sang exclusively in Greenlandic and influenced Greenland Inuit’s battle against Danish colonial rule. The first feature-length documentary produced in Greenland premiered at CPH: DOX.

As for Phie Ambo’s praise of biodynamic farming in Good Things Await, the Danish will kick off the Berlinale Culinary Programme on February 8.