The 9th SEEFest - The South East European Film Festival of Los Angeles, approaching its 10th anniversary, is around the corner! It will take place from the 1st of May and will last until the 5th of the same month. The Festival organizes conferences and retrospectives, serves as the cultural hub and resource for scholars and filmmakers, and creates opportunities for cultural exchange between Southern California and South East Europe. The festival presents award-winning and acclaimed films, art installations, filmmaker talks, and a business conference celebrating and promoting the cinema and peoples of this dynamic, critical, and volatile region where East meets West.

In this year΄s competition, among the 40 film premiers that will be screened from all over the world, we find multi awarded Balkan participations such as My Beautiful Country, The Unsaved, and The Gangster Of Love.

You can find the full list of the Balkan entries below.

In the Feature Film selection:

Living Legends by Niki Iliev, Bulgaria, 100’

My Beautiful Country by Michaela Kezele, Germany/Croatia/Serbia, 88’

The Unsaved by Igor Cobileanski, Romania/Moldova, 80’

Seduce Me by Marko Santic, Slovenia, 89’

Vis-a-Vis by Nevio Marasovic, Croatia, 80’

Karnaval by Can Kilcioglu, Turkey, 95’

In the Documentary Film selection:

Crazy About You by Danilo Marunovic, Montenegro, 50’

From Grain to Painting by Branko Istvancic, Croatia, 75’

The Jumbled Threads: A Film About Golo Bardo by Ekaterina Minkova, Bulgaria, 45’

Kosma by Sonja Blagojevic, Serbia, 75’

Gangster of Love, Nebojsa Slijepcevic, Croatia, 80’

The Festival will finish with the closing night gala featuring the film Puzzle by Andrei Zinca, Romania/USA, 89’.