If you love beautiful things and you want to be moved, you must see PINA, the documentary by Wim Wenders.
It captures some of the legendary German choreographer Pina Bausch’s 40 dances, using 3-D technology that draws you into the dance in a way that’s never been filmed before. And it’s earthy! Where else have you seen dancers ooze into actual dirt, fling themselves into water and rock, burst through woods in spring, or dance a lonely arabesque on a concrete island surrounded...
We looked for a partner who loves movies, cherishes those
great old ones and has an ear for contemporary tastes as well. We hope you'll
like them too: Metropolis Books. From now on every time you look for a book and
make a purchase at this cool online store, you will be supporting SEE FEST too.
So, don't forget to mention our name!! Metropolis has suggested a few titles by
authors from South East Europe for your reading pleasure:
The Tiger's Wife is Tea
Obreht's debut novel...
Mark your calendars! One of SEE FEST’s most important
partners is screening new films from Germany and we want you to come!
From October 26 -
30, 2011, the Goethe-Institut Los Angeles presents the 5th annual German Currents Film Festival,
showcasing the best of new German cinema. Screenings will be held at the
Egyptian Theatre, the Aero Theatre and the Goethe-Institut L.A.
Opening night,
Wed. Oct 26 at 7:30pm, don’t miss “Almanya”, directed by Jas...
Are you a filmmaker whose movie (feature, documentary, animated or short) is thematically tied to South East Europe? SEE Fest invites you to submit your film for the 2012 festival. Films from first-time directors qualify for the Best First Feature Film Award! Please mail the screener to our address at:
SEE FEST - Attn. Programming
7119 W. Sunset Blvd., Suite 306
Los Angeles, CA 90046
U.S.A.
SEE Fest 2012 dates: May 3-7, 2012
Submission Dead...
One of the most useful elements of SEE FEST is its Business
Conference, headed last year by Honorary Chair Ron Yerxa (producer of Little Miss Sunshine and Cold Mountain, among others). The event
last May gave filmmakers great insights into:
-- How to access
and structure financing for international productions
-- How to develop Hollywood and European financing for co-productions
-- Local
governmental incentives for filmmakers
-- The role Hollywood-based Eas...
For those who didn’t see the 2011 South East European
Film Festival (SEE FEST) last May, I thought I’d recap a few of my favorite
films. Me, My Gypsy Family, and Woody
Allen was a humorous and moving 2009 documentary about the Halilović family’s move from caravans into a
permanent apartment, and the daughter Laura’s intent on being a filmmaker
rather than getting married at 18, as her mother and relatives expected. Halilović’s family had lived in caravans in Italy sin...
The last week of the Slovenian Film Retrospective at the
Hammer Museum in September was as memorable as the first, which I wrote about
in two previous blog posts.
I was unfortunately not able to see the next two films in
the series, Dance in the Rain, an
enigmatic love story that (to quote the program) “masterfully weighs whether
life’s plateaus are cause for disillusion or hope,” and Sand Castle, a “tour-de-force of absurdist, physical comedy [that]
subtly ...
More about “Slovenia Begs to Differ,” a unique
retrospective of Slovenian films, 1945-present, that played in September at the
Hammer Museum’s Billy Wilder Theater. It was curated by Vera Mijojlic, artistic
director of the South East European Film Festival (SEE FEST) and Shannon
Kelley, head of public programs at UCLA’s Film and Television Archive, with
special thanks to Nerina T. Kocjancic of the Slovenian Film Center.
My second Slovenian film experience feat...
