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MEETINGS ON THE BRIDGE IS GOING ONLINE ON THE 15TH YEAR

Following the declaration of World Health Organisation about COVID-19 as pandemic and taking into consideration of the pressure on the filmmakers necessary measures were taken to perform the activities of MoB online. Film Development Workshop will hold one to one and jury meetings with international industry guests at online platforms.

NEIGHBOURS PLATFORM SELECTION IS COMPLETE!

Meetings on the Bridge has launched Neighbours Platform in 2015 in order to initiate new collaborations and enhance communication between filmmakers from Turkey and its neighbouring countries. Selected through methods of scouting and interviewing from the neighbouring countries, the filmmakers make the presentation of their projects to the international producers, financiers and buyers after the intensive two days pitching training.

24 feature film projects from 7 countries have participated at the Neighbours Platform and amongst them Entwined (Minos Nikolakakis), Smuggling Hendrix (Marios Piperides- Cyprus), Ava (Sadaf Foroughi- Iran), Neighbours (Grigol Abashidze- Georgia), Radiogram (Rouzie Hassanova- Bulgaria) and My Favorite Fabric (Gaya Jiji- Syria) have made their premieres at major festivals including Cannes, Toronto, Tribeca, Sofia and Dubai.

The filmmakers selected for Neighbours Platform will digitally present their projects to the international jury and have online one to one meetings.

Selected projects for Neighbours:

• A Pair of Leather Clogs (Director: Olga Korotko, Producer: Etienne de Ricaud - Caracteres Productions) / Khazakhstan
• Chronicle of a Winter: Tehran 1979 (Director: Sahar Salahshoori, Bahar Shoghi Producers: Mina Kesheveraz ) / Iran
• Grey Skies (Director: Konstantine Kalandadze, Producers: Gary Crenner, Elene Margvelashvili – Chezville , Paraschute Films ) / Georgia
• Jeux Sans Frontieres (Director: Andrei Cretulescu, Producer: Cristian Nicolescu – Digital Cube) / Romania
• Maad (Director: Hussen Ibraheem Producer: Tania El-Khoury , Lara Abou Saifan – Placeless Films) / Lebanon
• Pearl Tears (Director: Levon Minasian , Producer: Ani Vorskanyan, Robert Guediguian, Marc Bordure – anEva Production, Agat Films) / Armenia
• Woof (Director: Yorgos Teltzidis)
• You Look Like Your Father ( Director: Levan Lomjaria, Producers: Vaku Kirkitadze – Georgian Film Cluster) / Georgia

Neighbours Platform Awards are:

• 8000 EURO CNC Award
• Postbıyık Sound Post-Production Award

The eligible countries are:

• Armenia
• Azerbeijan
• Bulgaria
• Cyprus
• Egypt
• Georgia
• Greece
• Iraq
• Iran
• Lebanon
• Romania
• Russia
• Syria
• Ukraine