The anniversary edition of the Astra Film Festival will kick off on 15 October in the Romanian city of Sibiu, with the freshest and best documentaries the world has to offer in its selection. A total of 128 titles selected from among 3,000 submissions will be screened over seven days across nine venues. Among these films, 11 are world premieres and 40 are national premieres, according to the press release. Fifty-six short films and features will be competing in the festival’s five official competitions.

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The titles announced for the International Competitions are I Am Another You by Nanfu Wang (USA), The Image You Missed [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Donal Foreman (Ireland/France/USA), Minding the Gap by Bing Liu (USA), Sand and Blood [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Matthias Krepp and Angelika Spangel (Austria), Solving My Mother [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ieva Ozolina (Latvia), Tanzania Transit [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jeroen van Velzen (Netherlands), Thinking Like a Mountain by Alexander Hick (Germany/Colombia), Unsettling by Iris Zaki (Israel/UK) and Yvonne by Tommaso Perfetti (Italy/France).

Meanwhile, the Central and Eastern European Competition comprises The Distant Barking of Dogs [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Simon Lereng Wilmont (Denmark/Sweden), Easy Lessons [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Dorottya Zurbó (Hungary), Frozen Conflict by Steffi Wurster (Germany), Hugo [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Wojciech Klimala and Mateusz Wajda (Poland), Love Is Potatoes [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Aliona van der Horst (Netherlands), Putin’s Witnesses [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vitaly Mansky
scheda film] by Vitaly Mansky (Latvia/Switzerland/Czech Republic), Srbenka [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Nebojša Slijepčević
scheda film] by Nebojsa Slijepcevic (Croatia), Taurunum Boy [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jelena Maksimovic and Dusan Grubin (Serbia), When the War Comes [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Jan Gebert (Croatia/Czech Republic), and The White World According to Daliborek [+leggi anche:
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intervista: Vít Klusák
scheda film] by Vít Klusák (Czech Republic).

Finally, the Romanian Competition includes Anniversary [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Claudiu Mitcu, Caisă [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Alexandru Mavrodineanu, Free Dacians [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Andrei Gorgan and Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan, Licu, a Romanian Story [+leggi anche:
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scheda film] by Ana Dumitrescu, Megaphone by Ruxandra Gubernat, Henry Rammelt and Marcel Schreiter (Germany/Romania), Mockup Wedding by Mihai Andrei Leaha, Monyo+Baba by Ibolya Symó, Nussbaum 95736 by Csibi László and Wedding of the Year by József Bán.

The festival also boasts two short-film competitions – one of them, Docschool, is dedicated exclusively to student films.