The 28th edition of the Astra Film Festival, Romania’s longest-running gathering dedicated exclusively to documentary cinema, will kick off on 5 September (running until the 12^th) and will screen more than 50 films over eight days. Given the current health context, the organisers have opted to move the festival from its traditional mid-October slot to the beginning of September, as this edition will be hybrid, with outdoor and indoor screenings as well as online access to films.

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This edition will have four competitions, the main one being New Voices in Documentary Cinema, which focuses on first, second and third films in the career of a director. There will also be a Central & Eastern Europe Competition, the Romanian Competition and the Docschool Competition, the latter consisting exclusively of short films. The main theme of this iteration is “Climate Collapse Alert”, with several films, including the opening one, Emmanuel Cappellin’s Once You Know [+lee también:
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Luca Lucchesi’s A Black Jesus [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Netherlands), Frédéric Mainçon’s For Your Comfort and Your Safety (France), László Barna’s Hands of God (Hungary/Romania), Virginija Vareikyte and Maximilien Dejoie’s I'll Stand By You (Lithuania/Italy/Switzerland), Ensar Altay’s Kodokushi (Turkey), Moumouni Sanou’s Night Nursery [+lee también:
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Ten medium- and feature-length documentaries will be competing for the awards in the Central & Eastern Europe Competition: Ivo Briedis' Homo Sovieticus (Latvia/Lithuania/Czech Republic), Bruno Pavić's Landscape Zero [+lee también:
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ficha de la película] (Croatia), Michal Edelman's Last Knights of the Right Side (Poland), Ivana Marinić Kragić's Nun of Your Business (Croatia/Serbia), Marko Grba Singh's Rampart [+lee también:
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Eight out of the ten films competing in the Romanian Competition are directed by women: Carmen Lidia Vidu's #New Together (Austria/Romania), Ioana Mischie's Fragile (Romania), Olga Lucovnicova's My Uncle Tudor (Belgium/Portugal/Hungary), Oana Giurgiu's Occasional Spies (Romania), Anca Hirte's Stela, In the Name of the Father (Romania), Raluca Durbacă's Certainty of Probabilities [+lee también:
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