Astra Film Festival 2017
Astra Film Festival is a major event in the European film community and Romania’s leading documentary festival. The Festival is located in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, and it is unique in South-Eastern Europe.
The Festival spotlights contemporary human realities as evoked by documentary cinema. It champions documentaries that give a detailed and intimate account of the human condition in the form of powerful cinematographic stories. The Festival programme gives a realistic vision of contemporary societies, and promotes cultural and cross-cultural understanding.
Astra Film Festival Sibiu is organized by Astra Film – Centre for Documentary Film and Visual Education, Department the National Museum Astra in Sibiu, and by the Astra Film Foundation.
This year Astra Film Festival takes place between 16 and 22 October 2017.
For more information check the Astra Film Festival website.
Here are our recommendations:
| Date | Location | Hour | Title | Minutes |
| 16.10 | Dom | 17:30 | Solar Superstorms | 24′ |
| 16.10 | Thalia | 19:00 | Sibiu 825 | 26′ |
| 16.10 | Dom | 19:45 | Samskara | 23′ |
| 16.10 | Dom | 20:45 | The Game | 8′ |
| 16.10 | Dom | 21:00 | Tango 360 | 26′ |
| 17.10 | Auditorium | 18:00 | The Dead Nation | 85′ |
| 17.10 | Gong | 20:00 | I Am Hercules | 69′ |
| 17.10 | Gong | 21:30 | Film less happy, more sad, poetical and wise | 80′ |
| 18.10 | Astra Film Mansarda | 17:00 | The Trial | 90′ |
| 18.10 | Astra Film Mansarda | 19:00 | Beast Is Still Alive | 90′ |
| 18.10 | Astra Film Cinema | 21:30 | Planeta Petrila | 80′ |
| 19.10 | Gong | 18:00 | Deportation Class | 85′ |
| 19.10 | Astra Film Cinema | 18:30 | Oh Brother Octopus | 27′ |
| 19.10 | Auditorium | 20:30 | Taste of Cement | 90′ |
| 19.10 | Gong | 21:30 | Libera Nois | 89′ |
| 20.10 | Astra Film Mansarda | 17:00 | I made you, I kill you | 14′ |
| 20.10 | Thalia | 17:30 | Convictions | 61′ |
| 20.10 | Thalia | 19:00 | Baloane de curcubeu | 86′ |
| 20.10 | Auditorium | 19:30 | Long Echo | 87′ |
| 20.10 | Astra Film Mansarda | 21:30 | Extended Family | 30′ |
| 21.10 | Astra Film Cinema | 14:30 | Before I meet you | 88′ |
| 21.10 | Astra Film Cinema | 16:30 | Story of Fatat | 23′ |
| 21.10 | Habitus | 17:00 | All That Passes By Through a Window That Doesn’t Open | 70′ |
| 21.10 | Auditorium | 20:00 | Grizzly Man | 104′ |
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