European Short Film Night
7:00 pm, Goethe-Institute Los Angeles Project Space
On March 18, SEEfest is partnering with the Goethe-Institut, and the honorary Consulate of Sweden, for an evening of European short films.
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SEEfest program and activities are supported, in part, by ELMA Foundation for European Movies in America, UCLA Center for European and Russian Studies , the California Arts Council, a state agency; Los Angeles County Board of Supervisors through the Los Angeles County Department of Arts and Culture; by a grant from the Department of Cultural Affairs, City of Los Angeles, Center for Slavic, Eurasian, and East European Studies, UNC-Chapel Hill, and with support from California Humanities, a non-profit partner of the National Endowment for the Humanities. We are deeply grateful for their past and current support of our programs. The Dutch film program is supported by Dutch Culture USA of the Kingdom of the Netherlands.
Special Screening: The Track
7:00 pm, Barco Theatre, Glen Glenn Studios in Hollywood
The Los Angeles premiere of The Track (2025, Canada), directed by Ryan Sidhoo, ushered in the 2026 festival season with a coming-of-age story following three teenagers chasing improbable Olympic dreams on their bullet-riddled luge track from the 1984 Winter Games in Sarajevo.
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OSCAR SEASON
For the 98th Academy Awards, the submitted motion pictures must have first been released theatrically in their respective countries between October 1, 2024, and September 30, 2025.
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A SPECIAL SCREENING: Bosnia’s Oscar Entry BLUM: MASTERS OF THEIR OWN DESTINY
7:00 pm, Laemmle Monica Film Center
Emerik Blum. Born in Sarajevo in 1911 into a family of Hungarian Jews, and an electronic engineering student in Prague in the late 1930s, Blum survived the most notorious concentration camp of Jasenovac, established and operated by the governing Ustaše regime, Europe's only Nazi collaborationists that operated extermination camps for Serbs, Romani, Jews, and political dissidents during World War II.
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AFI FEST FEATURES SEE FILMS
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Showcasing the best films from around the world. The 39th annual AFI FEST presented by Canva film festival will be held in Hollywood on October 22-26.
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A SPECIAL SNEAK PREVIEW SCREENING: DJ AHMET
7:00 pm, The Ray Stark Family Theatre, USC School of Cinematic Arts
Ahmet, a 15-year-old boy from a remote Yuruk village in North Macedonia, finds refuge in music while navigating his father’s expectations, a conservative community, and his first experience with love — a girl already promised to someone else.
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UCLA FILM SCHOOL & SEEfest PANEL
7:00 pm, UCLA Film School
Screening of award-winning short films 'Dreamers' and 'Reformed,' followed by the conversation about panelists' approach to creating original concepts for television, cable, and streaming platforms.
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UCLA FILM SCHOOL & DUTCH PROGRAM AT SEEfest: Master Class with Rada Sesic
8:00 pm, UCLA Film School
The focus of Ms Šešić's talk are the contributions to Dutch cinema by immigrants from Eastern and Southeastern Europe, as well as highlighting the work of the Hubert Bals Fund and IDFA Bertha Fund, with an overview of their funding schemes, and current priorities.
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UCLA FILM SCHOOL & SEEfest PANEL: EASTERN GATE
7:00 pm, UCLA Film School
The panelists will engage in a lively conversation and share their perspectives with film school students and local independent filmmakers on processes involved in domestic and international fiction and nonfiction development of properties for streaming services, and apps.
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A SPECIAL THEATRICAL SCREENING: VALLEY OF PEACE @ FRIDA CINEMA
5:00 pm, Frida Cinema, 305 E 4th St Ste 100, Santa Ana 92701
Kitzmiller's star turn and a timeless war time story crowned VALLEY OF PEACE one of the enduring Cannes Classics and masterpieces about humanity in war times.
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