In Memoriam: Remembering visionary filmmaker Vlatko Gilić
A master filmmaker’s legacy lives on.
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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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Meet the Team at SEEfest’s 20-Year Milestone
by Cristina Sandu Each spring, a unique cinematic voice echoes across Los Angeles, far from the glittering lights of Hollywood. That voice belongs to the South East European Film Festival, SEEfest, an annual celebration of storytelling that shines a spotlight on the cinematic culture of Southeast Europe. In its 20th year, SEEfest has become a […]
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20 Years of SEEfest: From 2006 to 2025 – Video
20 Years of SEEfest: from 2006 to present The 20th annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest), co-presented by ELMA, the foundation for European Languages and Movies in America, is excited to bring you another stellar lineup. Presenting and celebrating the cinematic and cultural diversity of 20 countries of the Balkans and Caucasus, the film […]
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Review – Glass Onion
Set in Greece, Rian Johnson’s slick whodunnit is a repudiation of the tech craze, influencer culture, class privilege, and American hegemony abroad. Warning: Contains Spoilers for Glass Onion: A Knives Out Mystery By Vanessa Bloom “I like the glass onion, as a metaphor. An object that seems densely layered, but in reality, the center is […]
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Review – Živa (The Death of the Goddess Živa)
Liquid Eco-Aisthēsis: Elemental Sensorium and Femininity in Živa Essay by Maja Manojlovic Živa (2022), a short experimental film by Nataša Prosenc Stearns, unfolds in nine scenes, each characterized by the prominence of one of the natural elements. However, just as our planet and bodies are primarily composed of water, so does its liquid, wavy fluidity […]
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Review – I Do Not Take My Name for Granted
I Do Not Take My Name for Granted: Four Short films by Saodat Ismailova Reviewed by Amanda L. Andrei March 6, 2023, at REDCAT, Roy and Edna Disney CalArts Theater The longer you gaze at the steep cliffs, the more you start to see shapes of women. Vintage footage of Soviet tanks gives way to […]
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Theo Angelopoulos – The Landmark UCLA Retrospective
Review by Malina Stefanovska In the Fall of 2022, the UCLA Film and Television Archive ran a complete retrospective of Theo Angelopoulos, a Greek film director and one of the most famous and beloved filmmakers of South East Europe. The full house of the Billy Wilder theater, the rapt attention of the audience during the […]
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South East European Filmmakers at Cannes Film Festival
7 Filmmakers From South East Europe Will Premiere Their Films In Cannes This Year New films from Hungary, Romania, and Bulgaria are selected for the 2021 edition of the Cannes Film Festival: Ildikó Enyedi’s first English-language feature, The Story of My Wife, is in the official competition. Based on the 1942 Hungarian novel by Milán Füst, […]
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SEEfest 2021: Conversations with Filmmakers – Video
Excerpts of Conversations with Filmmakers featured at #SEEfest2021 With filmmakers Marko Dješka, Nicolas Iordanou and Sylvia Nicolaides, Kata Gugić, and Elka Nikolova. 1. ALL THOSE SENSATIONS IN MY BELLY – short animation trailer While transitioning gender from male to female, Matia struggles to find a genuine, intimate relationship with a heterosexual man. Filmmaker: Marko Dješka […]
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