The SEEfest Review is now accepting pitches on a rolling basis for essays and critiques covering film, literature, art, history, and music. Please review our guidelines before sending us your pitch. As of November 2025, we can offer writers and critics a modest stipend of $25 for articles that range between 300 and 600 words, […]
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It All Starts Here… Well, Kind Of
“There was no illusion of a straight path or guaranteed success, just honest conversations about persistence, adaptability, and finding your way through uncertainty.”
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Review: Documentary Film, Meant to Be
Pogány Induló is only twenty, but he already looks worn down. In Hungary, he is famous, with a young audience that echoes his words back to him. It looks like the dream: fame, success, a launched career. Instead, success reached him before he knew what to do with it–and with it, the cost of success.
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“One day you will learn respect for the fatherland, respect for bread. I will make you learn.” –Kasia Babis in Breadcrumbs. By Lauren Halvonik.
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Author in Front of the Mirror
Why Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu remains one of the most acclaimed literary voices of Romania by Ioana Bîrjan Hortensia Papadat-Bengescu is one of the most acclaimed novelists of the Romanian canon. Why did it take her so long to gain larger recognition? Born into a bourgeois family that refused her the opportunity for university studies, Papadat-Bengescu found […]
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ROMANIAN TIFF AND CZECH KARLOVY VARY HEAT UP THE FESTIVAL SUMMER
The busy festival summer kicks off this weekend with the 24th annual Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj-Napoca, Romania, followed in July by the 59th festival in Karlovy Vary, Czech Republic, and the 72nd Pula Film Festival in Croatia.
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