As top industry names and emerging talents come to Vilnius, BPF will host events dedicated to intimacy co-ordination, talent agents and co-production opportunities.

The Slovenian Film Centre announced the following grants on 15 September 2023.

TBILISI: The Georgian/French/Bulgarian coproduction Citizen Saint directed by Tinatin Kajrishvili has been selected as Georgia’s candidate for the 96th Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences award in the Best International Feature Film category.

SKOPJE: Australian-Macedonian director Goran Stolevski’s third feature Housekeeping for Beginners / Domakinstvo za pocetnici has been selected as North Macedonia’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 North Macedonia, Poland, Croatia, Serbia and Kosovo.

TRIESTE: When East Meets West, the industry platform of the Trieste Film Festival, has opened the call of submissions for the 2024 Co-Production Forum, Last Stop Trieste and This is IT! WEMW 2024 will be held 21 - 24 January 2024 and the Trieste Film Festival 19 – 27 January 2024.

The sneak preview include new works from Ukraine, Netherlands, Belgium and Mexico. According to Festival Director Tiina Lokk, all four films deal with highly topical and relevant issues that affect and connect us all here and now. "A sharp social perspective will also characterise the rest of the main competition programme, which will provide a cross-section of today's major issues. I believe we have put together a very strong and interesting programme of auteur films of which we can be proud." she said.

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.