TRIESTE: Wojciech Staron's Brothers won the HBO Europe Award for the best project in Last Stop Trieste, a new section of When East Meets West pitching market running from 18 to 20 January alongside Trieste Film Festival.

TRIESTE: Cristina Sain, the president of Trieste Film Festival told FNE that the financial situation of the festival has improved in the last few years, while Alessandro Gropplero, who runs When East Meets West, said that there were several documentaries dealing with espionage in the selection of the coproduction forum this year.

WARSAW: The Performer, the debut feature of Łukasz Ronduda and Maciej Sobieszczanski, was selected for Berlinale Forum Expanded (5-15 February 2015).

WARSAW: Turner Broadcasting System has appointed Dominik Tzimas as the new Distribution Manager for Central and Eastern Europe and Russia. Tzimas will work in the Warsaw office.

NICOSIA: The independent feature Eleftheria – Woman of Cyprus is currently in preproduction hoping to raise 0.5m USD on Indiegogo until 28 January 2015. American star Olympia Dukakis has agreed to play the title role depending on the final script approval and her schedule.

TRIESTE: Along with 22 projects in development selected for pitching, the 5th edition of When East Meets West Trieste (18-20 January) is launching two new initiatives dedicated to films in the postproduction stage.

BERLIN: Romanian and Lithuanian coproductions, Why Me? directed by Tudor Giurgiu and The Summer of Sangailé by Alanté Kavaïté, as well as a Czech documentary Daniel’s World by Veronika Liskova, were selected for the Panorama section of this year’s Berlinale, running from 5 to 15 February.

NICOSIA: Cyprus Film Days will present a separate international competition section, Glocal Images, for the 5th consecutive year. The deadline for applications is 13 February 2015. The 13th edition of Cyprus Film Days will take place in Nicosia and Limassol from 17 to 26 April 2015.