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Astra Film Fest 2006 had 58 films in competition from 24 countries.
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ASTRA FILM FEST AWARD for the best Romanian film offered by BRITISH COUNCIL Romania
Village of Socks by Ileana Stanculescu
The jury was impressed by the analytical and cinematic qualities of this film, which examines how a small hand industry can help keep village culture alive and empower the local women.
With informal interviews, observation of everyday social interactions and gentle humor the filmmaker knits together a perceptive portrait of life in what has historically been a multiethnic village. The film is an enjoyable work of documentary cinema as well as a valuable study of gender and small – scale economics. It raises questions of trust and distrust between communities as Romania enters the European Union.
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ROMANIA - RETROSPECTIVE
Motto: "A country without documentary films is like a family a family without a photo album".
1989 marked an outburst of the Romanian media. Nevertheless, the phenomenon did not bring the documentary film into focus. The production of documentaries was still the prerogative of television channels, and therefore could not escape the TV reportage format or the cinematographic essay style fostered by the single documentary film studio that had functioned in Romania before 1989.
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| Robert Gardner
AFF 2006 celebrates the work of Robert Gardner. Robert Gardner was born in 1925 in Brookline Massachussets, and is one of the most famous ethnographic filmmakers in the world. Over the zears he has been making athnographic films, teaching, writings on documentary films and ethnography and supporting filmmakers and their projects. His film focus on specific people and specific places, including Niger, Ladakh, Sudan, Eritrea, and New Guinea..... |
| Kim Longinotto
Television is arguably one of the central institutions of democratic public life. In a world where government is achieved by public deliberation and reasoned debate, we need institutions that foster a culture of tolerance and the acceptance of diversity.
Most anthropologists, like many other intellectuals, have traditionally taken a rather sniffy attitude towards television, the most popular medium of information and entertainment in our age.....
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WOMEN - Leading Characters in Documentary Films
The panel: "Women: Leading Caharacters in Documentary Films" - discusses seventeen films, which come up with different aspects of womanhood in a certain society: 1. Women's place in different social contexts: Sisters in Law, Caravan, Singing Pictures, Holy Men and Fools, We are Girls, But ...; 2. Women crossing their biological gender: Rodica Is a Good Boy, Shinjuku Boys; 3. Women and marriage: The Good Wife of Tokyo, Divorce in Iranian Style, Just Married, Sentenced to Marriage, Bride Kidnapping in Kyrgyzstan, The Internet Bride, Red Poppies, Fat Fiancees, Rivers of Sand, The Angelmakers.
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Fundatia Soros Romania lanseaza concursul de film de scurtmetraj Open Society Shorts. Deadline: 3 mai 2010
ASTRA FILM promovează documentarul românesc la UCLA Film and Television Archive din Los Angeles
