Seriesly Berlin has selected 18 international drama projects to compete in its Project Pitches, part of a revamped format for the Seriesly Berlin Conference taking place on 15-16 September at the Fotografiska Berlin. The competition now splits entries into three strands: a Writers' Pitch for early-stage projects, a Co-Production Pitch for more advanced work, and a newly added Vertical Drama strand, reflecting the industry's growing interest in short-form vertical content.

Selected projects span multiple countries and genres, including Have You Seen Sabine?, an Australia-Germany true-crime drama about a journalist's investigation into a 2005 murder; I Am God, a German dramedy from director Hanna Doose; and Small Death in Lisbon, adapted by British author Robert Wilson from his own novel with the team behind Netflix's Glória. The Writers' Pitch line-up includes Black Valley, from Star Trek: Discovery writer Ted Sullivan and Irish actor-writer Michael Patric, alongside two German projects examining the far right. Other titles include a Latvian Cold War thriller, a Czech-German-Slovakian co-production about the Vietnamese diaspora, and an Italian sports dramedy centred on padel.