With great enthusiasm we can now reveal the selection for First Cut Lab Trieste that will take place next week during When East Meets West! We received a record number of applications this year, 38 projects from 20 different countries, which made it a difficult task to choose only three. But without further ado, here are the projects we are looking forward to meet in Italy next week:

24 Hr Sunshine (Latvia)

Director: Juris Poskus

Producer: Madara Melberga – FA Filma

Far Frontiers (Russia) – First feature

Director: Maxim Dashkin

Producer: Anna von Dziembowska – Victoria Films

Inhale-Exhale (Russia, Georgia)

Director: Dito Tsintsadze

Producer: Nadya Gorshkova (Viva Film), Rusudan Glurjidze (Cinetech Film Production)

Like each year we also welcome a great group of advisers from a variety of different renowned festivals and companies to work with the selected teams. They are:

Anne Delseth – Programmer Cannes Directors’ Fortnight

Frank Hoeve – Producer BALDR Film (The Netherlands)

Martin Horyna – Programmer Karlovy Vary IFF

Ankica Jurić Tilić – Producer Kinorama (Croatia)

Marcin Luczaj – Sales Agent New Europe Film Sales (Poland)

Andrei Tănăsescu – Programmer Toronto IFF

Agathe Valentin – Sales Agent TOTEM Film (France)

Wim Vanacker – Programmer Cannes Film Festival and NISI MASA

Cassandre Warnauts – Producer Frakas (Belgium)

A great crop for a fantastic new edition!