In 2017, the program will be adjusted and develop according to the feedback from 2016 based on the needs and new possibilities. The aim will be to enhance the program and select up to seven film projects from Neighbours. Turkey is the eastern most country of Europe acting as a bridge between Europe and Central Asia. Neighbours is a platform bridging and bringing together sales agents, distributors, buyers and exhibitors from the Neighbours, Europe and further countries of Central Asia. Neighbours will be expanding to include the countries Greece, Bulgaria, Azerbaijan, Georgia, Armenia, Iran, Iraq, Syria and also Black Sea countries–Romania, Ukraine, Russia–and further, Turkish speaking Turkic countries Uzbekistan, Kazakhstan and Turkmenistan, which Turkey already has tight economical business relations with. The aim will be to enhance the program and select up to seven film projects from the Neighbours for the Film Development and Work in Progress workshops .There will be a call issued for applications via the Eventival . The MoB team and its advisors will scout projects. In March the selected Neighbours filmmakers with projects participating in the training on script, production, marketing and audience development and pitching with the Turkish projects in İstanbul .In April filmmakers will be making the first international presentations of their projects at the workshops to the film professionals. There will be cash and in-kind post-production award for the neighbours projects. Roundtable meetings bringing together the heads of funds, institutions, festivals and markets from the Neighbours will be facilitated to design the road map for the collaboration of the organizations in the future and bring new financing sources and distribution methods for Neighbours and European films.