The 21st annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) will open April 29 with Ioana Mischie’s feature debut Catane, a comedy-romance set in Romania described as “a modern-day fairytale, where hapless bureaucrats eventually find their groove.”
SEEfest, co-presented by ELMA (foundation for European Languages and Movies in America), runs from April 29-May 6 in Los Angeles. Journalist and entrepreneur Vera Mijojlić, a native of Sarajevo, founded the festival in 2006 to bring the best of South and Eastern European fiction and nonfiction cinema to the U.S. Bulgarian American actress and entertainer Irina Maleeva, whose credits include films with Fellini and Orson Welles and the upcoming comedy Sunny’s Closet, serves as the festival’s honorary chair.
Among other highlights of the 2026 SEEfest program are Croatian narrative feature Honey Bunny, from director Igor Jelinovic, “a marvelous character study of toxic family
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