WORKS IN PROGRESS
LAST STOP TRIESTE
Trieste Film Festival and WEMW announce the 13th edition of LAST STOP TRIESTE, a work in progress section for documentary projects in a stage of FINE CUT, previously developed or presented in one of our partner platforms: Ex-Oriente Film Workshop, BDC Discoveries, Docu Rough Cut Boutique, Baltic Sea Docs, ZagrebDox PRO and When East Meets West.
Selected documentary fine cuts will be given the chance to be screened in Trieste to an exclusive platform of international sales agents, festival programmers and TV commissioning editors with the aim of enhancing their potential for finding festival premieres, sales agents and broadcasting slots. Along with a short presentation and the screening of the prepared selection of scenes from their fine cuts, all selected teams will participate at the moderated feedback session with hand-picked decision-makers.
All selected docs will be in the running for the Film Centre Montenegro Award, a cash prize of the value of 2.000€.
GUIDELINES & SUBMISSION
I. General Aspects
The deadline for submitting a project to Last Stop Trieste is October 30, 2026 23.59 CET.
The project should be at a fine cut stage and should have a full cut by January 2027.
Incomplete applications will not be taken into consideration.
Application materials and subtitles must be submitted in English.
Only one project per applicant can be submitted.
The selection committee’s decisions cannot be appealed.
II. Submission
All applications must be submitted through our database Eventival following the instructions at this link.
There must be English subtitles in the submitted video materials.
The video material should be minimum 45 min of your fine cut.
It’s mandatory for the video to be available via password protected streaming service (e.g. vimeo) with validity until the end of LST.
No transfer services or cloud storage is accepted.
III. Selection Criteria
LST has the interest to support creative documentary projects that have a final duration between 60 minutes and feature length, done with a strong cinematic language and artistic imprint of the director.
No specific themes or styles are preferred.
There are no other specific fixed criteria and each individual project will be considered on its own merits. Projects should be new or recent and there should be a potential international market.
IV. Specific Conditions
There is no entry fee for applications.
Once a project has been selected, at least one representative should be present during the days of Last Stop Trieste (January 17-19, 2027).
Finished film projects participants of LST should mention Last Stop Trieste and display its logo in their credits.
The following sentence should be mentioned in the credit list: “[film title] has been presented at Last Stop Trieste of When East Meets West – Trieste Film Festival”.
The LST-WEMW-TSFF logo will be sent upon request.