This year, 85 projects applied for the Short Film Workshop selection. The Meetings on the Bridge selection committee, comprising producer Armağan Lale; director Burcu Aykar; Miguel Dias, director of the Vila do Conde Film Festival and the Portuguese Short Film Agency; and Rimantė Daugėlaitė, director of the Lithuanian Short Film Agency, evaluated the applications and selected four projects.

Projects selected for the Short Film Workshop:

• Mother Will Dad Be Angry With Me? (dir. Selin Aktaş Eyüboğlu, prod. Esin Özalp Öztürk, Rıfat Erkek, Emre Pekçakır, Onur Hakkı Eyüboğlu)
• My Mother, Before Me (dir. Aslı Ekici, prod. Yağmur Dolkun)
• Nalbeki: Unknown Story of a Well-known Design (dir. Mehmet Kaan Karataş, prod. Mehmet Kaan Karataş, Doğukan Demirkapılar)
• Orlando (dir. Halime Usta, prod. Vildan Erşen)