The 31st session of the SEE Cinema Network's general assembly took place online on 19 January, where the winners of the 2020 funding competition for feature-length projects in development were selected from the pool of 15 films – two from each of the participating countries. Each of the projects, which previously secured funding from their national film funds and have another co-production company from another South-Eastern European country on board, will receive €9,000.

The winners include the new projects by up-and-coming filmmakers, such as Maya by Cyprus's Tonia Mishiali (Pause [+leggi anche:
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Debut projects such as Georgi Unkovski's DJ Ahmet [+leggi anche:
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