WEMW 2024 will take place on January 21-24, 2024 in Trieste (Italy) and is now ready to open its first round of calls for submissions: apply with your project in development to the Co-Production Forum, and with your work in progress to Last Stop Trieste and This is IT!

RIGA: Ilze Kunga-Melgaile’s debut feature My Freedom / Mana Brīvība has been selected as Latvia‘s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category. The film is a Latvian/Lithuanian coproduction.

COTTBUS: The East-West co-production market connecting cottbus has announced the projects selected for cocoPITCH and cocoWIP at its 25th anniversary edition set for 8 - 10 November 2023 within the FilmFestival Cottbus (7 – 12 November 2023).

The following grants were announced by the Croatian Audiovisual Centre on 15 September 2023.

The East-West co-production market connecting cottbus presents the projects of its 25th anniversary edition (8-10 November 2023).

BUDAPEST: The animated film Four Souls of Coyote by Áron Gauder has been selected as Hungary‘s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.

LJUBLJANA: Dominik Mencej's debut feature Riders / Jezdeca has been selected as Slovenia‘s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category. The film is a coproduction between Slovenia, Croatia, Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and Italy

PODGORICA: Senad Šahmanović’s debut feature Sirin has been selected as Montenegro‘s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category. The film is a coproduction between Montenegro, Croatia, Albania, Kosovo, Bosnia and Herzegovina, and France.

VALLETTA: The seven episodes of the third season of the British TV production Madame Blanc are shooting in Malta with a budget of 5 m EUR.

‘Madame Blanc’ is a British TV production that chose the Maltese Islands for its filming of Season 3, comprising of 7 episodes. This production is filming its whole season in Malta with a budget of €5 million. Amongst the 107 crew members working on this film project, 80% of which are Maltese and Gozitans.