The festival presents feature films, documentaries and shorts produced in or thematically related to South East Europe and the Caucasus.
The annual film festival includes a business conference, year-round screenings and programs, all showcasing the cultural diversity of South East Europe through themes, stories and visual artistry.
It seeks to establish intercultural connections between artistic communities in the United States and South East Europe.
In 2011, the festival collaborated with the UCLA Film and Television Archive to organize retrospectives of Slovenian cinema spanning from 1950 to 2010.
The retrospective was subsequently screened at the Pacific Film Archive in Berkeley, California in 2013, and at the National Gallery of Art in Washington, DC in 2014[6][7] The world premiere of Andreas Prochaska’s Sarajevo, an Austrian-German-Czech co-production, opened the 9th annual SEEfest on May 1, 2014 at the Writers Guild Theater in Beverly Hills, marking the 100th anniversary of the events in Sarajevo in 1914 that led to World War I[8][9][10] In 2012, SEEfest was voted by staffers of Flavorwire as one of the 10 best “under-the-radar” film festivals in America.