12/01/2018 - In addition to competition programmes, the festival focuses on 1968, and its industry division has revealed a new €3,000 Baltic Award and the line-ups for three side sections

The 29th Trieste Film Festival (19-28 January) and the eighth edition of its When East Meets West (21-23 January) industry division have announced their full programmes.

The festival's Feature Film Competition will present the Italian premieres of nine titles from Central and Eastern Europe: Boris Khlebnikov's Arrhythmia [+see also:
film review
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interview: Boris Khlebnikov
film profile], Iulia Rugina's Breaking News [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Iulia Rugină
film profile], Gentian Koçi's Daybreak [+see also:
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trailer
interview: Gentian Koçi
film profile], Sharunas Bartas' Frost [+see also:
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interview: Sharunas Bartas
film profile], Igor Bezinović's A Brief Excursion [+see also:
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film profile], György Kristóf's Out [+see also:
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interview: György Kristóf
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interview: Hanna Slak
film profile], Ivana Mladenović's Soldiers. Story from Ferentari [+see also:
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interview: Dawid Ogrodnik
interview: Ivana Mladenovic
film profile] and Maciej Sobieszczański's The Reconciliation [+see also:
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interview: Maciej Sobieszczański
film profile].

The Documentary Competition includes another nine titles, among them the IDFA winner The Other Side of Everything [+see also:
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interview: Mila Turajlić
film profile] by Mila Turajlić, the Slovenian festival hits The Family [+see also:
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film profile] by Rok Biček and Playing Men [+see also:
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film profile] by Matjaž Ivanišin, as well as the Romanian titles Tarzan's Testicles [+see also:
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interview: Alexandru Solomon
film profile] by Alexandru Solomon and The Dead Nation [+see also:
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film profile] by Radu Jude. To view the full selection, click here. 

In its side programmes, the Trieste Film Festival will focus on the 50th anniversary of the revolutionary year of 1968 in its Rebels 68 sidebar (view the programme here).

For the full festival programme, click here. 

Furthermore, after announcing the titles in its co-production forum (see the news), When East Meets West has revealed the final line-ups of its Last Stop Trieste, First Cut Lab and This is IT sidebars, as well as the new Baltic Award, worth €3,000, in co-operation with three Baltic film institutes.

Now in its fourth edition, Last Stop Trieste, the documentary work-in-progress section, will present seven creative docs that will be vying for the HBO Europe Award and the Flow Digital Cinema Award.

The First Cut Lab workshop for films in the editing phase has selected three fiction features from Poland, Russia and Lithuania, with the ultimate goal of fostering their artistic, sales and festival potential.

The newly established This is IT section (see the news) targets fiction features in the post-production phase produced or co-produced by Italian producers, in partnership with Milano Film Network. This is IT will present six films ready for their festival premiere/international distribution, and one of them will receive the Laser Film Award, worth €10,000 in services. 

Here is a list of the titles selected in the various WEMW sidebars:

Last Stop Trieste

100 Trips Around the Sun - Víctor Cruz (Argentina/Italy)
Producer: Fito Pochat

Baltic New Wave - Audrius Stonys, Kristine Briede (Latvia/Lithuania/Estonia)
Producer: Uldis Cekulis

Before Father Gets Back [+see also:
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film profile] - Mari Gulbiani (Georgia/France/Germany)
Producer: Tekla Machavariani

Exemplary Behaviour [+see also:
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film profile] - Audrius Mickevičius (Lithuania/Bulgaria/Italy)
Producer: Rasa Miškinytė

Home Games [+see also:
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film profile] - Alisa Kovalenko (Ukraine/France/Poland)
Producer: Stephane Siohan

My Unknown Soldier [+see also:
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film profile] - Anna Kryvenko (Czech Republic/Latvia/Slovakia)
Producer: Michal Kráčmer

Paying a Visit to Fortuna [+see also:
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Producer: Ágnes Horváth-Szabó

First Cut Lab 

Core of the World - Audrius Mickevičius (Russia/Lithuania)
Producers: Natalia Drozd, Sergey Selyanov

Summer Survivors [+see also:
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interview: Marija Kavtaradzė
film profile] - Marija Kavtaradze (Lithuania)
Producers: Marija Razgute, Klementina Remeikaite

The Mute [+see also:
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Producer: Anna Wydra

This Is IT 

Citta’ Giardino - Marco Piccarreda (Italy)
Producers: Marco Piccarreda, Gaia Formenti 

Two Little Italians [+see also:
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interview: Tommaso Arrighi
film profile] - Paolo Sassanelli (Italy/Iceland)
Producer: Tommaso Arrighi

Menocchio [+see also:
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film profile] - Alberto Fasulo (Italy/Romania)
Producer: Nadia Trevisan 

Isabelle [+see also:
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Producers: Mirko Locatelli, Giuditta Tarantelli 

Stories from the Chestnut Woods [+see also:
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Producers: Marina Gumzi, Igor Princic

The World Is Flat - Matteo Carrega Bertolini (Italy/France/Switzerland)
Producers: Matteo Carrega Bertolini, Paola Dall’olio