ASTRA FILM Sibiu

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. astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/o… #AFF2024

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? astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/l… #AFF2024

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. astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/w… #AFF2024 #astrafilm

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. astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/l… #AFF2024 #astrafilm #Sibiu

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. astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/h… #AFF2024 #astrafilm #Sibiu

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. astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/f… #AFF2024

📽️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. #AFF2024 astrafilm.ro/en/2024/film/p…

Astra Film Festival (AFF2024) announces official selection (Sibiu, October 20-27, 2024). Check it here: astrafilm.ro/en/2024/offici… #AFF2024 #astrafilmfestival #romania #sibiu #officialselection

Stories are everywhere. The magic is knowing how to tell them. Merry Christmas! #astrafilmfestival

Zeigen was die Welt bewegt „Astrafilm”-Dokumentarfilmfestival feierte 30-jähriges Bestehen #AstraFilmFestival #AFF2023 hermannstaedter.ro/2023/10/zeigen…

#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: astrafilm.ro/ro/2023/progra…

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. #AFF2023

#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." #astrafilm #astrafilmfestival

#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." #astrafilmfestival #astrafilm

#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." #astrafilm

#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."

#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"

#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."

"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.

"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.