For the 37th time, the Trieste Film Festival is taking place in the northern Italian city of Trieste. Like the FilmFestival Cottbus, it focuses primarily on cinema from East Central and Eastern Europe.
For 16 years now, the co-production market “When East Meets West” has been held in parallel—an event that, for many industry professionals, provides lively and creative input at the start of the new film year, offering the opportunity to meet colleagues again and discover new film projects in one of Central Europe’s most beautiful cities.
FFC Program Director Bernd Buder and connecting cottbus Director Marjorie Bendeck were (once again) in attendance and discovered a number of promising new films and film projects, some of which will certainly be seen on Cottbus screens this autumn.
Many thanks to the organizers of “When East Meets West” and the Trieste Film Festival, with which the FFC partners in the European film festival network “Moving Images – Open Borders” (MIOB).