After the successful past edition, When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival will renew the partnership with Milano Film Network for the section exclusively dedicated to long feature fiction films and hybrid works produced or co-produced by Italian producers. This is IT will present 8 films ready for festival premiere/international distribution and a jury composed by Graziella Bildesheim (MAIA WORKSHOPS/EUROPEAN FILM ACADEMY), Ilaria Gomarasca (PYRAMIDE INTERNATIONAL) and Angela Prudenzi (VENICE INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL) will deliver the prestigious LASER FILM Award.

The 8 Italian films selected for This is IT 2019 are:

ASSIMETRY (Asimetrija)
director: Maša Nešković
producer: Ines Vasiljevic
country: Italia / Italy, Serbia, Slovenia

DON’T FORGET TO BREATHE (Ne pozabi dihati)
director: Martin Turk
producer: Ida Weiss
Slovenia, Italia / Italy, Croazia / Croatia

FANGO ROSSO (Chronicle of a post industrial paradise)
director: Alberto Diana
producer: Manuela Buono
country: Italia / Italy, Francia / France

IL VARCO (Once More Unto The Beach)
director: Federico Ferrone, Michele Manzolini
producer: Claudio Giapponesi
country: Italia / Italy

L’APPRENDISTATO
director: Davide Maldi
producer: Davide Maldi, Micol Roubini, Fabio Scamoni, Gabriella Manfré
country: Italia / Italy

PARADISE – Tutta un’altra vita
director: Davide Del Degan
producer: Andrea Magnani, Stefano Basso, Gianpaolo Smiraglia, Branislav Srdic
country: Italia / Italy

SOLE
director: Carlo Sironi
producer: Giovanni Pompili, Agnieszka Wasiak
country: Italia / Italy, Polonia / Poland

TONY DRIVER – UN DEPORTATO AL CONTRARIO
director: Ascanio Petrini
producer: Giulia Achilli, Marco Alessi, Giorgio Blasi, Lucia Ferrante, Ascanio Petrini
country: Italia / Italy, Messico / Mexico