When East Meets West and Trieste Film Festival are happy to present the upcoming edition of This is IT, a work in progress section exclusively dedicated to long feature films and hybrid works with a strong visual and artistic approach produced or co-produced by Italian producers, or coming from any of the East & West 2026 spotlight territories: Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania & Austria, Germany and Switzerland.
The selected teams will have the chance to present their works and screen 8′ of their films to an exclusive panel of international sales agents, festival programmers and buyers. 

All selected films will compete for the Laser Film Award, consisting in 4 days of colour grading services and 1 DCP for a total value of 10.000€ and the brand new M74 Award, consisting in the creation of “2D Comp” visual digital effects and opening credits, with a value of €10,000.00, including digital artist services.