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ASTRA 2019

126 films to be screened at the 26th Astra Film Festival

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- Romania’s largest documentary film event boasts four official competitions this year

126 films to be screened at the 26th Astra Film Festival
In Touch by Pawel Ziemilski

A total of 126 films from 45 countries and five continents will meet the Romanian audience at the 26th edition of the Astra Film Festival (14-20 October, Sibiu), the country's biggest documentary gathering. Fifty-five of the films will be shown as world, international or national premieres at Astra. Forty-six movies will be competing in the festival's four official competitions, while another 80 will be screened in 12 thematic sections or in the Astra Film Junior programme, which is intended to educate the next generation of documentary lovers.

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The titles announced for the International Competition are Pawel Ziemilski's In Touch [+see also:
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(Poland/Iceland), César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco's Lapü (Colombia), Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin's Scheme Birds [+see also:
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(Sweden/UK), Valentina Primavera's Una Primavera [+see also:
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(Italy/Austria/Germany), Andrei Kutsila's Strip and War [+see also:
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(Belarus/Poland), Jane Bibi's A Perfect Housewife (Israel), Elodie Lélu's Letter to Theo [+see also:
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(Belgium), Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei's Laila at the Bridge (Canada/Afghanistan), Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts' For Sama [+see also:
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(UK/Syria), and Ksenia Okhapkina's Immortal [+see also:
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(Estonia).

Meanwhile, the Central and Eastern European Competition comprises Anna Kryvenko's My Unknown Soldier [+see also:
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(Czech Republic/Latvia/Slovakia), Bojina Panayotova's I See Red People [+see also:
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(France/Bulgaria), Eszter Hajdu's Hungary 2018 - Behind the Scenes of Democracy [+see also:
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(Hungary/Portugal), Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga's Angel Business (Hungary), Zosya Rodkevich and Evgeniya Ostanina's White Mama [+see also:
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(Russia), Andrius Lekavičius' Delta Zoo [+see also:
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(Lithuania/Latvia), Nadia Parfan's Heat Singers [+see also:
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(Ukraine), Dali Rust's The Balcony of Europe [+see also:
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(Russia/Lithuania), Aleksander Elkan's Hey, Bro! (Russia), Raimo Joerand and Kiur Aarma's Rodeo [+see also:
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(Estonia/Finland), and Sergei Loznitsa's State Funeral [+see also:
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(Netherlands/Lithuania).

As for the Romanian competition, it includes 11 features either produced or co-produced by Romanian production companies, or focusing on local topics: namely, Mona Nicoară and Dana Bunescu's The Distance Between Me and Me [+see also:
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(Romania/USA), Mihai Mincan and George Chiper-Lillemark's The Man Who Would Be Free [+see also:
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(Romania), Şerban Georgescu's Being Romanian: A Family Journal [+see also:
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(Romania), Dragoş Zămosteanu's Group Canal '77 (Romania), Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov's Palace for the People [+see also:
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(Bulgaria/Germany/Romania), Diana Gavra's The House with a Lock (Romania/Spain), Dragoş Turea's The Soviet Garden [+see also:
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(Romania/Moldavia), Alex Brendea's Teach [+see also:
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(Romania), Adrian Robe and Denisa Morariu Tamaş's The Golden Girl [+see also:
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(Romania), Alexander Nanau's Colectiv [+see also:
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(Romania/Luxembourg), and Charlotte Grégoire and Anne Schiltz's Pastures New [+see also:
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(Belgium).

Finally, the DocSchool competition mixes 14 shorts and features produced by documentary film schools.

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