Astra Film Festival programme
September 4-13, 2020
Friday 4.09
Saturday 5.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE This film is the result of years of investigations on the activity of world’s biggest corporation...
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE75 years after 23 August 1944, survivors of racial persecutions talk about the day that changed their life forever.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEA young Ukrainian ethnic and her family struggle to keep alive a century-long tradition, despite various challenges.
WORLD PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEWho are the women leaving Romanian villages for a better life? Here is the story of these fierce fighters...
Sunday 6.09
ROMANIAN PREMIEREFirst we create the technology, then it recreates us.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEWhy would anyone regret communism? A contemporary perspective on a very specific type of nostalgia.
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEIn 1983 Ion Bugan protested against the Ceauşescu regime and his act of heroism had serious consequences.
Monday 7.09
Wrongly accused of theft, Romanian Claudiu Crulic goes on a hunger strike in a Polish prison.
How important are social networks for civic mobilization?
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEThe story of Eugen Cioclea and how he became the most colorful writer in Kishinev.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEA filmmaker whose disability may have been caused by the Chernobyl disaster finds other people affected by it.
Tuesday 8.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE 30 years after being adoptated into an American family, Nori comes looking for her parents in her native Romania.
ROMANIAN PREMIEREMarek Edelman, leader of the Warsaw Ghetto Uprising in 1943, remembers examples of love in the ghetto.
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE What makes a mother give away her baby?
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEA family lives happily in the wilderness of Delta Văcăreşti, but now they have to resettle in the city.
WORLD PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEA 100-year-old lighthouse keeper prepares his earthly funeral while trying to reconnect with the elf within.
Wednesday 9.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE A story about the shadows we inherit.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE1968. 14-year-old László and his friends rebel against the system and their punishment will be exemplary...
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEA Romanian beggar and a Swedish single mother fall in love. Here are the challenges in their relationship.
WORLD PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE In a small community in Sfântu Gheorghe, choir singing is a tradition that brings the people together.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEThe Văcăreşti Delta is the biggest urban delta in the world. Here is the story of an extraordinary place.
Thursday 10.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE Maybe adultery is boring, but betrayal is interesting. Don’t you think?
ROMANIAN PREMIERE The survivors of a Chilian sect contemplate 45 years of abuse and slave-like living conditions.
ROMANIAN PREMIERE Three actresses pretend to be 12 on social media. In ten days, they are contacted by 2,458 sexual predators.
WORLD PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE They died and then they came back to life. 10 testimonies from people who have experienced clinical death.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEESeveral 70-years-old women spend a week in the countryside. What do they do to feel young again?
Friday 11.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE Lene suffers from severe anorexia. A world-class photographer, she explores this deadly disease in her art.
Can a song heard on the radio make you travel half the world to find its source?
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE How do you prepare to become a good father when you grew up without one?
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEThey know the truth about the 1989 Revolution.
INTERNATIONAL PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE What does the first generation born in post-communism looks like at the age of 30?
Saturday 12.09
ROMANIAN PREMIERE Jola is 69 and struggles to reinvent herself after escaping from a marital nightmare.
WORLD PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE A son defecting to US, a mother left in communist Hungary. And yet they „talked” on 12 audio cassettes...
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEŞtefan Mandachi asks Romanian authorities why our country doesn’t have more highways.
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEIllegal logging is a global business worth billions. Can one man stand against it?
AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEEWith so many tools for communication, do we still inhabit a modern-day Tower of Babel?
Sunday 13.09
A director visits five exes in an attempt to discover why all her love stories end bad.
ROMANIAN PREMIERE - AUDIENCE AWARD NOMINEE A Romanian beggar and a Swedish single mother fall in love. Here are the challenges in their relationship.
ROMANIAN PREMIERE Three actresses pretend to be 12 on social media. In ten days, they are contacted by 2,458 sexual predators.