Los Angeles Gets Taste of Best Balkan Films

SEEfest 2014 Awards Announced:

Best Feature Film - Grand Jury Prize: "Seduce me", directed by Marko Santic, Slovenia   

Best Feature Film - Grand Jury Prize - "Vis-à-Vis", directed by Nevio Marasovic, Croatia

Best First Feature - "The Unsaved", Igor Cobileanski, Romania

Best Cinematography in a Feature Film - "My Beautiful Country" by Felix Novo de Oliveira

Best Cinematography in a Feature Film - "Puzzle", by Dan Alexandru, Romania

Best Documentary Film   - "Gangster of Love", by Nebojsa Slijepcevic, Croatia

Best Cinematography in a Documentary Film - "Kosma" by Sonja Blagojevic, Serbia

Audience Award - "There Was Once", by Gabor Kalman, USA    

The ninth edition of the festival in Los Angeles brought some 40 award-winning movies from Southeast Europe to the heart of Hollywood.

In the programme, several recent feature-length movies had American or West Coast premieres at the festival, while the opening saw the world premiere of "Sarajevo", an Austrian movie by Andreas Prochaska - a historical thriller based on the events that led to the outbreak of the Great War in 1914.

The movie deals with a love story between an investigator working on the case of assassination of Archduke Franz Ferdinand and Marija, the daughter of a prominent Serbian merchant.

Other movies screened over the five days of the SEEfest were "Living Legends", directed by Niki Iliev of Bulgaria, "Sitting Next to Zoe", a Swiss movie by Ivana Lalovic, "My Beautiful Country", a German, Croatian and Serbian coproduction directed by Michaela Kezele, and the Moldovan-Romanian coproduction "The...

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