SEEfest

07/09/2026

Become part of the team behind SEEfest 2027! We're looking for volunteers interested in outreach, marketing and social media, website support, filmmakers' materials coordination, and helping with our Opening and Closing Night events. Apply through the link in our bio.

07/07/2026

Schindler Space Architect, a documentary by Valentina Ganeva and an early project through our SEEfest Accelerator, now has U.S. theatrical distribution after its acquisition by Abramorama.

07/06/2026

SEEfest films are winners!

Fačuk (winner of an Honorable Mention for Best Animated Short at SEEfest 2026) won the Best Animated Short award at the Palm Springs Oscar-qualifying festival!

OUR FATHER, which won the Audience Award and an Honorable Mention for Cinematography from the official SEEfest Jury, plus an Honorable Mention from the Bridging the Borders Awards, also won a Special Jury Award at this year’s Transilvania International Film Festival in Cluj, Romania.

SILENT CINEMA (Best Animated Short at SEEfest this year) premiered in June in the official selection of the 64th Annecy Int'l Animation Film Festival (June 21 - 27) and Animafest Zagreb (June 8-13, 2026) -- both top-tier, Oscar-qualifying festivals.

06/26/2026

Save the date!

The 22nd annual South East European Film Festival returns to Los Angeles, April 28 – May 5, 2027!

06/14/2026

REVIEW: Dispatch from the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival

At the Craiova International Shakespeare Festival, the city itself becomes part of the performance, with productions, street parades, film screenings, installations, and Shakespeare Village filling Romania’s stages and public spaces. Amanda L. Andrei’s review captures a festival where Shakespeare feels alive, global, and surprisingly festive.

Read the full review to see how Craiova turns Shakespeare into a citywide celebration: https://seefilmla.org/craiova-international-shakespeare-festival-review/

Image: Titus Andronicus: Reborn.
Photo credit: Masanori Ikeda.

06/01/2026

A thoughtful review of *Father* by acclaimed critic and Cinema Without Borders juror CHALE NAFUS, whose jury awarded the film the Bridging the Borders Award at SEEfest 2026!

Directed by Tereza Nvotová, *Father* is a powerful and deeply human examination of grief, memory, and the phenomenon known as Forgotten Baby Syndrome.

Read the full review below. Congratulations to the filmmakers on this well-deserved recognition.

https://cinemawithoutborders.com/after-seeing-father-i-no-longer-laugh/?fbclid=IwdGRjcASHKKNjbGNrBIcmq2V4dG4DYWVtAjExAHNydGMGYXBwX2lkDDM1MDY4NTUzMTcyOAABHi9K34ODKDGv-7wE1o8VVQJcEQc6qwmvb0-50sQOfkDogLS8z5Ke27rM46yj_aem_sGVf_dSb9Ar1nHvgWHPUtA

Tereza Nvotová’s harrowing feature film Father beguilingly opens with a perfectly choreographed, continuous shot revealing the loving home life of an upper middle-class couple and their young daugh…

05/22/2026

New on SEEfest Review ✍️ Leon Ristov

Leon Ristov reflects on his year as a Sundance Institute Ignite x Adobe Fellow, from late nights at MASS MoCA to screening his short film at Sundance 2026 alongside filmmakers from around the world.

“It was more of a coming together—a chance to be present with others on the same journey.”

Read: *It All Starts Here… Well, Kind Of* on seefilmla.org/reviews/

Link also in bio

📸 Breanna Downs / Sundance Institute

05/19/2026

New on SEEfest Review! 📚

A new review by Guilherme Quireza on Meant to Be, a documentary following Hungarian rapper Pogány Induló as fame, pressure, and identity collide in public view.

“The film exquisitely captures a young artist who is falling apart in public, while the world around him keeps treating the image as exciting.”

Read now on seefilmla.org/reviews/

or link in bio ❣️