Now in its sixth edition, Last Stop Trieste, the work in progress section run together with the Trieste Film Festival, will present 5 creative documentaries to an exclusive panel of 40 international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors. All films will be in the running for the HBO Europe Award (cash prize of 1.000 EUR), Flow Digital Cinema Award, Film Centre Serbia LST Award (a cash prize of 2.500 EUR) and the brand new First Hand Fabulous Award (consisting in rough cut dramaturgy as well as promotion and distribution consultancy). The LST 2020 international jury will feature Pierre-Alexis Chevit (MARCHÉ DU FILM - FESTIVAL DE CANNES), Jutta Krug (WDR) and Alex Szalat (DOCS UP FUND).

For the third edition, When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival will renew the partnership with Milano Film Network for the section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction films and hybrid works produced or co-produced by Italian producers. This is IT will present 9 films ready for festival premiere/international distribution and a jury composed by Cosima Finkbeiner (BETA CINEMA), Olivier Pelisson (SEMAINE DE LA CRITIQUE), Alexia De Vito MIA will deliver the prestigious Laser Film Award.

Last but not least, WEMW will co-host the first international fiction work in progress section First Cut +, a portfolio of 8 fiction feature films at the stage of post-production, which participated to First Cut Lab, with a focus on Central & Eastern Europe. All projects are available in world premiere and looking for an International sales agent. First Cut + jury members Yohann Comte (CHARADES), Izabela Igel (ORKA FILM) and Thierry Jobin (FRIBOURG INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) will deliver the Orka Films Award for colour grading services and the Sub-Ti Award for subtitles services.

Alongside the pitching forum and the three side sections, WEMW will feature a rich programme to celebrate its 10th anniversary that will start with the presentation of the brand new WEMW report “Co-production trends between Eastern and Western Europe between 2008-2019”, and also includes “In the Spotlight”, where representatives from this year's spotlight territories will give a comprehensive insight into current trends in their film industries; EAVE will lead the session “Streamers by the Numbers”, a plenary for film professionals interested in how the sVoD platforms are performing given their newly competitive environment.

EWA will organise a showcase of the success stories with participants from previous editions, where prospective mentors and future mentees will be invited to share their views in the session “EWA Network Mentoring Programme Revisited @WEMW”.

Finally, ACE will for the first time in Trieste host the “ACE Interview with Roberto Olla”: the executive director of the European film fund Eurimages will be interviewed by esteemed European producer and ACE board member Cedomir Kolar. 

Finally, thanks to the cooperation with MIDPOINT, WEMW will launch the first edition of Cold Open, a program targeting independent producers with a background in feature film producing who aspire to shift to high quality television content, which offers a diverse selection of participating countries. This one-off event consists of group sessions, individual consultations and two lectures dedicated to TV series open to all WEMW participants: “The idea to spawn a thousand stories (and how to run with it)” and “How to Switch from Sprint to Marathon”. The ongoing cooperation with MIDPOINT will also this year bring 13 teams from Central Eastern Europe to Trieste to best develop their long feature and short projects.

The 2020 programme combines many different ingredients to celebrate 10 successful years of WEMW to the fullest and we look forward to welcoming more than 550 registered participants from over 40 different countries to the city.

The 5 documentaries that will be presented at Last Stop Trieste, the 9 feature films selected for This is IT, the 8 international films chosen for First Cut + and the 10 producers participating in the first edition of Cold Open are:

LAST STOP TRIESTE   BETWEEN TWO WARS (working title) director: Alina Gorlova producers: Maksym Nakonechnyi, Ilona Bicevska, Patrick Hamm countries: Ukraine, Latvia, Germany, Qatar   EVERYTHING WILL NOT BE FINE directors: Adrian Pîrvu, Helena Maksyom producers: Alexandru Solomon, Ada Solomon countries: Romania, Ukraine   HOLY FATHER director: Andrei Dascalescu producer: Anda Ionescu countries: Romania	I’LL STAND BY YOU directors: Virginija Vareikye, Maximilien Dejoie producers: Lukas Trimonis, Maximilien Dejoie, Mark Olexa countries: Lithuania, Italy SOVIET MAN director: Ivo Briedis producers: Elina Gedina Ducena, Inese Boka Grube countries: Latvia, Lithuania, Czech Republic
This is IT ATLAS   director: Niccolò Castelli producers: Villi Hermann, Michela Pini countries: Switzerland, Belgium, Italy CENT’ANNI director: Maja Prelog producer: Rok Bicek co-producers: Alessandro Leone, Massimo Casula countries: Slovenia, Poland, Italy, Austria DIVINATIONS director: Leandro Picarella producers: Luca Scarabelli, Luciano Barisone, Serge Lalou countries: Italia, Francia THE ANGEL IN THE WALL director: Lorenzo Bianchini producers: Sabrina Baracetti, Thomas Bertacche, Samantha Faccio country: Italy THE HOUSE OF LOVE director: Luca Ferri producers: Federico Minetti, Andrea Zanoli, Pietro De Tilla country: Italy	THE JUNGLE director: Cristian Natoli producers: Chiara Toffolo, Anita Juka country: Italy THE LAST RIDE OF THE WOLVES director: Alberto De Michele producer: Francesco Bonsembiante countries: Holland, Italy THE STONEBREAKER directors: Gianluca De Serio, Massimiliano De Serio producers: Alessandro Borrelli countries: Italy, France THROUGH THE WAVES director: Marco Amenta producers: Simonetta Amenta, Cristina Pinto Marques country: Italy
FIRST CUT + 24 HOURS OF SUNSHINE director: Juris Poskus producer: Madara Melberga country: Latvia AND THEY MAY STILL BE ALIVE TODAY director: Tudor Cristian Jurgiu producer: Bogdan Craciun country: Romania CHRYSANTHEMUM DAY director: Simon Mozgovyi producer: Alex Chepiga, Taras Bosak, Artem Koliubaiev country: Ukraine LISTEN director: Ana Rocha de Sousa producer: Paula Vaccaro countries: Portugal, United Kingdom	THE GETAWAY KING director: Mateusz Rakowicz producers: Andrzej Papis, Maciej Sowinski, Aleksandra Kułakowska, Agnieszka Odorowicz, Beata Barcz and Ewa M. Pawłowska country: Poland NIMBY director: Teemu Nikki producer: Jani Pösö countries: Finland, Germany, Sweden SIMPLE THINGS director: Grzegorz Zariczny producers: Magdalena Sztorc, Przemysław Miekinia country: Poland THE STAFFROOM director: Sonja Tarokic Ankica Juric Tilic – Kinorama country: Croatia
COLD OPEN Karin Berghammer company: Berg Hammer Film country: Austria Eva Blondiau company: Color of May country: Germany Luigi Chimienti company: Dispàrte country: Italy Johannes Jancke company: Bon Voyage Films country: Germany Dragana Jovovic company: Non-Aligned Flms country: Serbia	Natalia Libet country: Ukraine Claudia Schroeter companies: Kinderfilm GmbH/Grown Up Films country: Germany Radu Stancu company: deFilm country: Romania Nadia Trevisan company: Nefertiti Film country: Italy Vasilis Chrysanthopoulos company: Plays2Place country: Greece

WEMW is organized by the FVG Audiovisual Fund and the Trieste Film Festival in collaboration with ACE, EAVE, MIDPOINT, Creative Europe Desk Italy, EURIMAGES, EFA, German Film, and the support of Creative Europe/MEDIA Programme, MiBACT - Direzione Generale per il Cinema, CEI - Central European Initiative and the Autonomous Region of Friuli Venezia Giulia. The 2020 East & West focus is in cooperation and with the support of Federal Office of Culture, FOCAL, Film - und Medienstiftung NRW, Mitteldeutsche Medienförderung, Berlin-Brandenburg Medienboard, Hamburg Schleswig-Holstein Filmförderung, Austrian Film Institute, Carinthia Film Commission, FISA – Film Industry Support Austria, Cine Tirol Film Commission, CINESTYRIA Filmcommission & Fonds, National Film Institute-Hungary, Romanian Film Center.