The space dedicated to professional activities is increasingly structured, with the sixth edition of MedMeetings, the only Italian platform dedicated to the Euro-Mediterranean area. The project is supported by the Lazio Region and Lazio Innova, the IOM-International Organization of Migration, the MiC and aims to build new bridges to connect Italian industry with all the countries of the Mediterranean area. A mission of both an economic and cultural nature that the organizers intend to carry out with enthusiasm and scrupulousness also in the years to come.

New this year, is the launch of MedPitching, an initiative curated by Paolo Bertolin. It is a platform dedicated to developing projects, coming from all over the Euro-Mediterranean region. The aim of the initiative is to create connections between these projects and Italian producers active in the context of minority co-production, in order to enhance the constructive role that the Italian industry can offer thanks to this new resource. The nine selected projects are:

• 50 PICOGRAMOS by David Pérez Sañudo (M), Spain
• ARCADIA by Guillermo Benet (M), Spain
• AUGUSTA & KÁTIA from Lud Monaco (F), Portugal
• HEAR THE YELLOW by Banu Sivaci (F), Turkey
• I’M HERE BUT YOU CAN’T SEE ME by Feyrouz Serhal (F), Spain/Lebanon
• THE BALLAD OF THE SKELETON by Murat Uğurlu (M), Turkey
• THE PIGEON TOWER by Amal Ramsis (F), Egypt
• TUNIS-DJERBA by Amel Guellaty (F), Tunisia
• WE ALL DIE NAKED by Iris Elezi (F), Thomas Logoreci (M), Albania