This year, 103 projects applied to the Film Development Platform. The selection committee, consisting of producer Aslı Filiz, producer and sales representative Denis Krupnov, producer Melanie Blocksdorf, and festival director Tsveta Dobreva, evaluated the applications, selecting 9 projects for the platform.

Selected projects for the Film Development Platform:

• Apollo Island (dir. Barış Sarhan, prod. Umut Eğitimci, Barış Sarhan, Tolga Topçu)
• Couldn’t Through Winter Without You (dir. İlhan Mahir Kalaylıoğlu, prod. İlhan Mahir Kalaylıoğlu, co-prod. Can Adiloğlu, Şıvan Kayaş)
• Dante, 0 (dir. Esra Saydam, prod. Alvaro R. Valente, Melis Aker)
• Huckster (dir. Arin İnan Arslan, prod. Arin İnan Arslan, Selda Durna)
• Leviathan (dir. Onur Sefer, prod. Sinem Kanat)
• The Ones Who Move Slowly (dir. Dilşad Aladağ, prod. İpek Erden, co-prod. Burak Çevik)
• The Pier (dir. Gökhan Bulut, prod. Jozef Erçevik Amado, Deniz Anastasia Keskin)
• Pivot (dir. Melisa Önel, prod. Alara Hamamcıoğlu Bayraktar, co-prod. Konstantina Staurianou)
• Yerebasan ~ Grounded Subterranean Urfa Stories (dir. Letisya Tapan, prod. Letisya Tapan, co-prod. Dilek Aydın)