Robert St. Martin
THE GREAT YAWN OF HISTORY: An Iranian Allegorical Tale About the...
Iranian filmmakers are gifted story-tellers and one recent example just screened at UCLA Hammer as part of the annual “Celebration of Iranian Cinema” which...
MORTICIAN: Iranians in Exile in Canada and Dealing with Iran’s...
Last evening was the opening night of the 34th UCLA CELEBRATION OF IRANIAN CINEMA (JUNE 5–21, 2026) – at the Billy Wilder Theater of the...
Ionesco’s EXIT THE KING: An Absurdist Tale About an Aged King...
Currently on stage at A Noise Within Theater in Pasadena is a production of Eugène Ionesco’s Exit the King,a darkly comic piece representative of...
THE BEAUTY OF THE DONKEY: Dea Gjinovci’s Documentary About Memory and...
One film in this year’s South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) that I particularly enjoyed was Dea Gjinovci’s documentary The Beauty of the Donkey....
FANTASY – A Slovenian Film About Three “Tomboys” and a Transexual...
Fantasy is the debut feature film of Slovenian filmmaker Kukla Kersherović, who is also a well-known musician in her country. Fantasy premiered at the...
Igor Cobileanski ‘s COMOTOGEN: A Romanian Film About the Subtleties of...
Comatogen is an interesting, well-made film from Romania by director Igor Cobileanski. Its mosaic structure driven by the perspectives of multiple characters is reminiscent...
Tereza Nvotová’s FATHER: An Unsettling Drama About Moral Ambiguity – at...
A powerful and unsettling film from Slovakia was part of the South East European Film Festival (SEEfest) on Saturday at the Laemmle NoHo Theatre...
MY DEAREST THEO: Alisa Kovalenko’s Video Diary of Being a Ukrainian...
“My Dear Théo” is a fine documentary made by Ukrainian filmmaker Alisa Kovalenko about her frontline service in the Ukrainian Volunteer Army through video...
OUR FATHER: A Stark Look at Faith-Based Drug Rehabilitation in a...
Featured in the line-up of films at this year’s SEEfest is a debut narrative feature Our Father (Oce Nas) from Serbia, directed by Goran...
PANOPTICON: Masculinity Crisis of a Young Georgian Man at SEEfest Film...
On Thursday evening at SEEfest (South East European Film Festival) at the Sunset Screening Room in West Hollywood was a screening of George Sikharulidze’s...









