WEMW is a co-production forum which brings together film professionals from Eastern and Western Europe who wish to develop and establish connections with one of the two spotlight regions in focus. The 2017 edition will have a Western focus on France and an Eastern focus on Baltic countries. The programme includes a training session for selected producers/directors, a public pitching, one-to-one meetings, round tables/case studies, and an innovative workshop for feature film rough cuts and a documentary work in progress section. Every year 20 film projects in development are selected and presented to over 300 industry professionals from both sides of Europe. Selected projects from Eastern Europe and Italy must have strong co-production or co-financing potential with the region in focus and vice versa. 5 documentaries will be presented in the work in progress section "Last Stop Trieste" to an exclusive panel of festival representatives, sales agents and buyers; WEMW will also select 3 feature film rough cuts for the "First Cut Lab", a workshop where top festival programmers, sales agents and editors will work with selected participants in order to improve the quality of the projects and increase the sales, festival and circulation potential of their films.Selected participants will be required to be established producers whereas decision makers will be invited according to their profile as potential co-producers/ partners. Beyond the group of all selected participants and experts, WEMW will be addressed to film professionals wishing to set creative and business relationships between East and West. The event will aim at offering concrete co-financing and co-production opportunities, facilitating the circulation of audiovisual works (in particular from countries with low production capacity) and creating a network of film professionals from East and West aware of the concrete co-production modalities and keen to co-produce further projects.