This year, 48 projects applied to the Work In Progress platform. The selection committee, comprising festival programmer Céline Roustan; producer Guillaume de Seille; director Rezan Yeşilbaş, evaluated the applications and selected ten projects for the platform. Among the ten projects selected for this year’s platform –five documentaries and five fiction films–, seven are debut features.

Projects selected for the Work in Progress Platform:

• Ballad of the Skeleton (dir. Murat Uğurlu, prod. Ilgım Coşar, Murat Uğurlu, co-prod. Linus Gunther, Zeynep Şantıroğlu, Murat Mezhiev, Alexandr Plotnikov)
• Being a Sujuk (dir. Volkan Durmuş, prod. K. Onur Karakuş, Serpil Altın)
• Dancing Angels (dir. Ferit Kılıç, prod. Diloy Gülün, Sena Tonguç, Beste Yamalıoğlu, co-prod. Suat Sağlam)
• Death of Truth (dir. prod. Hüseyin Karabey)
• Other Seasons of Hakkari (dir. Evrim Kaya, prod. Evrim Kaya, Sevim Sancaktar)
• Seeds of the Same Pomegranate (dir. Şeyla Korkut, prod. Ines Asatryan)
• Shapeshifters (dir. Semih Gülen, prod. Alara Hamamcıoğlu Bayraktar, Arda Çiltepe)
• Silent House (dir. Mustafa Deniz, prod. Mustafa Deniz, co-prod. Onur Çakır)
• Stratum (dir. Daniel Kötter, Marko Grba Singh, prod. Jelena Angelovski, co-prod. Burak Çevik, Veton Nurkollari, Eroll Bilibani)
• This is It, the Apocalypse (dir. Balahan Gürel, prod. Aysun Karaman, Okan Üzey, co-prod. Çağdaş Malay, Solal Coutard)