The 15th edition of When East Meets West is taking place from 19 and 22 January 202, organised by the Friuli Venezia Giulia Audiovisual Fund, together with the Trieste Film Festival/Alpe Adria Cinema, with the support of Creative Europe – MEDIA Programme, MIC - Direzione Generale Cinema e Audiovisivo, CEI (Central European Initiative), Programa Ibermedia, Film Center Serbia, Catalan Films, Ciclic-Centre Val de Loir, and Regione Autonoma del Friuli Venezia Giulia, and in collaboration with Creative Europe Desk Italy, Croatia, Serbia, Belgium Wallonie, Belgium Flanders, Lithuania, Latvia, Estonia, Bulgaria, Greece, Montenegro and Slovenia.
CIRCLE Awards:
Docs Barcelona Award:
Francesca Bertin (Italy) for Al Bayt
Sheffield DocFest Award:
Rand Beiruty Jordan for Portrait of A
European Film Market – Diversity, Equity and Inclusion Initiative Award:
Ines Tanović (Bosnia and Herzegovina) for Letters to My Children
PR and Marketing Consulting Award – Awarded by Marijana Harder:
Clara López Rubio (Spain) for Amazonas
CinEuropa Spotlight Award:
Flora Linghwa Huang (Taiwan) for White Waters
Studio Ruolli Putorti Legal Support Award:
Koval Bhatia (India) for Somewhere Over the Rainbow
EWA Talent Encouragement Award:
Win Fang (China) for Letters from Home
DAE Strategy Award – Awarded by the DAE Executive Board:
Fagamou Fama Ndiaye (Senegal) for Maty or the Real Life
RE-ACT Awards:
Big Women (Serbia)
Directed by Milica Tomović
Produced by Big Time Production / Non-Aligned Films
The Banned Wood (Italy)
Directed by Giulio Squarci
Produced by Okta Film
Dad in the Attic (Croatia)
Directed by Dana Budisavljević
Produced by Hulahop
The Healers (Slovenia)
Directed by Atila Urbančić and Lun Sevnik
Produced by Cvinger film
New Rabbitland (Serbia)
Directed by Ana Nedeljković and Nicola Majdak
Produced by Film House Bas Celik
The Last Roast (Slovenia)
Directed by Urban Zorko
Produced by Monoo
Suspicious Area (Croatia)
Directed by Filip Peruzović
Produced by Pipser
The Waterline (Italy)
Directed by Aurora Mischi and Massimo Mucciut
Produced by Staragara IT
Italian-Baltic Awards:
The Art of Bitting Your Tongue (Latvia, Italy)
Directed by Ieva Norvele
Written by Ieva Norvele, Eszter Horvath
Produced by Tasse Film
Coproduced by Corego
Dolce far niente (Latvia, Italy)
Directed and written by Elena Kairyte
Produced by Baltic Production
Coproduced by Kine Societá cooperative
Three Mothers / Tre madri (Italy, Latvia)
Directed by Enrico Lando
Produced by Jolefilm
Coproduced by Air Productions
