Calendar – Past Event

Fourth annual SEE Fest runs from Thursday, April 30 through Monday, May 4, 2009. Screenings April 30 & May 1 start at 6:30pm, May 2 & 3 start at 3:30pm and are held at the Goethe Institute, 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, Ca. 90036. The closing night of the festival is held on Monday, May 4th at 6:30pm the James Bridges Theatre on UCLA campus in Westwood. Business conference BRIDGING THE DIVIDE: UNLOCKING THE BYZANTINE FILM MODEL takes place on Monday, May 4 at UCLA's Faculty Center. For tickets and further information go to www.seefilmla.org.

FESTIVAL HIGHLIGHTS

TUNNEL'S END (Na kraju tunela), Spain/Bosnia Herzegovina 2008, documentary, 100 min. Directed by Monica Lleo.

An extraordinary debut film by a young filmmaker from Spain Monica Lleo, it tackles the key issues that led Bosnia-Herzegovina first into war in 1990's and subsequently into paralysis the country is suffering today.

DIVORCE ALBANIAN STYLE (Razvod po albanski), Bulgaria/Albania 2007, documentary, 66 min. Directed by Adela Peeva.

Bulgarian director Adela Peeva reveals the tragic stories of Albanians who married Polish, Russian, Czech women in the post-WWII Albania. When Albanian president Hoxha split from the USSR in 1953, he ordered spouses deported as "spies", and broke those marriages by force....

DIAGNOSIS S.B.H. (Dijagnoza S.B.H.), Bosnia Herzegovina 2008, documentary, 42 min. Directed by Enes Zlatar.

On a backdrop of the contemporary music scene in Bosnia Herzegovina and interviews with fellow rock musicians, director Zlatar asks :Which language is ‘our language'? He explores the issue of language, leaving us to contemplate the high-voltage political legacy of nationalism and recent wars.

Location Name:  Goethe Institute Los Angeles

Address: 5750 Wilshire Blvd. Suite 100, Los Angeles, CA 90036