Astra Film Festival is a major event in the European film community and Romania’s leading documentary festival. The Festival happens yearly in the Transylvanian city of Sibiu, and it’s 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 program 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 15 and 21 October 2018.

For more information check the Astra Film Festival website.

Here are our recommendations. We chose a bit of everything – history, human condition, environmental issues, political and social realities around the world.