ASTRA FILM Sibiu

Astra Film Festival 2022 will take place from October 9th to October 16th.

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Of Caravan And The Dogs
Aslkod Kurov, Anonymous1 • Germany • 2024
Intense and unsettling, the documentary gives us a unique behind-the-scenes insight into the resistance of journalists and activists in Putin's Russia.
https://t.co/foAa4S48fZ
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Limits of Europe
Apolena Rychlíková • Czech Republic, France, Slovak Republic • 2024
What is life really like for workers in Eastern Europe who, in the hope of a better life, are forced to leave their families to work in the West?
https://t.co/uLYkXU1F5s
#AFF2024

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We Call Her Hanka
Grit Lemke • Germany • 2023
A sophisticated documentary about the life of the Sorbs in Lusatia. It explores how they manage to preserve the culture of an ancient Slavic people in the midst of the German landscape.
https://t.co/hICl8yd5Sk
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Leo Records: Strictly for Our Friends
Ioana Grigore • Romania • 2024
A dynamic and invigorating documentary about music, the USSR, the KGB, the BBC, and Leo, an octogenarian with a passion for jazz.
https://t.co/VjL0kdEUsf
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House With A Voice
Kristine Nrecaj, Birthe Templin • Germany • 2024
The stories of six women from Albania who, for various reasons, chose to become men according to the laws of the Kanun, a traditional code still in use today.
https://t.co/eAXC9lwQ3v
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Forest
Lidia Duda • Czech Republic, Poland • 2024
A family that chooses to move from the city to a forest on the border between Poland and Belarus, only to have their paradise disrupted by the plight of refugees abandoned in the same forest.
https://t.co/Sijk5v5okQ
#AFF2024

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📽️Photophobia (Ivan Ostrochovsky, Pavol Pekarčík • 2023 • Češka, Slovačka, Ukrajina)
As war grips the city's streets, two children discover the underworld in a Kharkiv metro station, where they have taken refuge and live their daily lives.
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https://t.co/b2HVSExAix

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Astra Film Festival (AFF2024) announces official selection (Sibiu, October 20-27, 2024). Check it here: https://t.co/P8F0hBHNjw
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Stories are everywhere. The magic is knowing how to tell them.
Merry Christmas!

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Zeigen was die Welt bewegt
„Astrafilm”-Dokumentarfilmfestival feierte 30-jähriges Bestehen
#AstraFilmFestival #AFF2023
https://t.co/Cx4s4Q2XYD

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#AFFOnline Pasionații de cinema documentar din România pot vedea online o selecție de 43 de filme până în data de 30 octombrie 2023, ora 23:59.
Detalii, program și bilete: https://t.co/Eg9fberrme

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Milky Way
Dumitru Budrala • Romania • 2023 • 145 min • Work in progress
In a century governed by speed and technology, transhumance seems straight out of ancient legends. Here is a documentary willing to reveal the secrets and challenges of this way of life.
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#AFF2023 Awards: DOCSCHOOL Best Director
PTITSA
Alina Maksimenko • Poland • 2022
Jury motivation: "The film captures the profound bond between her and her mother within the walls of their home."
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#AFF2023 Awards: Special Mention #DocSchool competition
LETTERS TO ORSK
Andreas Boschmann • Germany • 2023
Jury motivation: "a courageous narrative in which the director embarks on a journey to explore his family’s repressed trauma."
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#AFF2023 Awards: Best Documentary DOCSCHOOL
DANCING AT MY PARENTS' WEDDING
Andreea Chiper • Romania • 2023
Jury Motivation: "...a film that really captivated our imagination through the inventive use of personal footage in a journey towards self-discovery."
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#AFF2023 Awards: Special Mention in the Central and Eastern Europe Competition
LOVE IS NOT AN ORANGE
Otilia Babara • Belgium, France, Netherlands, Moldavia • 2022
"Through 20 years of video letters we follow the fate of a country that gains independence but loses its mothers."

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#AFF2023 Awards: Best Documentary in the Central and Eastern Europe Competition
THE NORTHEAST WINDS
Nikoloz Bezhanishvili • Georgia, 2022
"an absorbing, assured and intimate study of a party of elderly Communists, committed to the memory of Stalin in the town where he was born"

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#AFF2023: Best documentary New Voices Award
ADIEU SAUVAGE
Sergio Guataquira Sarmiento • Belgium, France, 2023
"A cinematic, touching film with many layers; the filmmaker’s personal journey of enquiry into his own identity opens up into a story about the legacies of colonialism."

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"The film is a journey undertaken with humility & clarity; beautifully filmed and told; like all good journeys it involves transformation... the jury appreciated the chance to have shared the filmmaker’s discoveries about a disappearing culture at the heart of his own DNA.

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"this trusting, mutual friendship is a testimony to the filmmaker’s uncomplicated, mission – a mission to learn about ‘others’ in order to better understand himself.