SEEfest 2023 award winners
SEEfest 2023 Audience Award winner Lights Of Sarajevo (photo by T Starren)

The 18th Annual South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) in Los Angeles, California came to a close with the world premiere of the documentary from Ukraine, “KING LEAR: How We Looked for Love During the War,” by Dmytro Hreshko. Taking a step back from the frontlines, the film focuses on internally displaced people in a small town who are transformed into Shakespeare’s characters which in turn gives a new meaning and purpose to their shattered lives.

Prior to the screening, the festival handed out the awards with Men of Deeds By Paul Negoescu winning Best Feature and Scenes With My Father, by Biserka Šuran winning Best Documentary. Men of Deeds also received the Audience Award for Best Feature Film and Lights Of Sarajevo directed by Srdjan Perkić won the Audience Award for Best Documentary.

Additionally, Irina Maleeva (star of Peacock’s Paul T Goldman, Six Feet Under, The Gilmore Girls), SeeFest’s Honorary Chairwoman, accepted the MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award for The Good Driver, on behalf of director Tonislav Hristov, a Bulgarian filmmaker who works in Finland and Bulgaria. The film is a Finnish-Swedish-Bulgarian production.

Complete list of winners of 2023 South East European Film Festival (SEEfest)

BEST FEATURE

MEN OF DEEDS by Paul Negoescu
Honorable Mention: SONNE by Kurdwin Ayub

BEST DOCUMENTARY

SCENES WITH MY FATHER, by Biserka Šuran
Honorable Mentions: JUVENILE by Jovan Todorović

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN FEATURE FILM

Cinematographer Giorgos Karvelas, SILENCE 6-9
Honorable Mention: Cinematographer Orlin Ruevski, THE GOOD DRIVER

BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY IN DOCUMENTARY FILM

Cinematographer Hirotoshi Takeoka, ADAMIANI
Honorable Mention: Cinematographers Stefan Đorđević and Jovan Todorović, JUVENILE

SHORT ANIMATION

GRANNY’S SEXUAL LIFE by Urška Djukić and Émilie Pigeard

Honorable Mentions:

THE LEGEND OF GOLDHORN by Lea Vučko

MONEY AND HAPPINESS by Ana Nedeljković and Nikola Majdak Jr

BEST SHORT DOCUMENTARY

THE SCORE by Aleksandra Bilić

BEST SHORT FICTION

CHIATURA by Toby Andris

Special Jury Mentions:

ON XERXES’ THRONE by Evi Kalogiropoulou

THE EAGLE’S NEST by Milija Šćepanović

Additional Awards:

MOZAIK Bridging the Borders Award

THE GOOD DRIVER by Tonislav Hristov

Honorable Mention: THE HAPPIEST MAN IN THE WORLD by Teona Strugar-Mitevska

Barco HDR Master LightSteering Color Grade Prize

Audience Awards

Feature Film: MEN OF DEEDS, by Paul Negoescu

Documentary Film: LIGHTS OF SARAJEVO, by Srdjan Perkić

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