The 26th edition of the TriesteFF will be held from 16 to 22 January 2015 and it will be articulated in 3 international competition sections (features, documentaries – all national premieres - and shorts), from Central and Eastern Europe; “Italian Screenings”, in collaboration with When East Meets West, devoted to Italian independent films seeking international distribution; a section focusing on the new “popular” trends of film productions from Central and Eastern Europe, “Genre Surprises”; “Sound Zone”, a selection of fiction and non-fiction films with a musical subject matter; “Cinema Zones”, devoted to films made in the Friuli Venezia Giulia region; "animated shorts"; “TriesteFF Arthouse”, a selection of fiction and non-fiction films devoted to art and cinema; a new showcase devoted to a selection of films whose early projects had been selected by WEMW in the first years of activities, in order to take stock of all of the projects that have become films in the meantime. We will dedicate a retrospective to Polish film director and screenwriter Jerzy Skolimowski, very active between Europe and the United States, where he made the films that consecrated him as one of the most important and influential European filmmakers of our time. We will also continue the Screenwriting Workshop ‘Eastweek’, an educational programme addressed to films students from Central and Eastern European Film Academies, in partnership with Midpoint, Prague. We plan to increase the total number of films and recover the 7 days as a total duration of the festival for a wider screening schedule; to enhance the international co-operation and cultural exchanges with other festivals and public institutions; to increase the number of spectators and festival guests; to expand the audience collaborating with VOD platforms as well as developing film literacy actions especially among the youngest, by organising film events throughout the year, in collaboration with other cultural associations.