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Astra Film Fest 2007 had 56 films in competition from 30 countries.
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Grand Prize / Marele Premiu
ASTRA FILM SIBIU 2007 AWARD
offered by the National Centre of Cinematography
CABAL IN KABUL, Dan Alexe, Belgium |
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MY TRANSILVANIA
The highlight of the Astra Film Festival in 2007 is Transylvania, Siebenbürgen in German and Erdély in Hungarian. My Transylvania brings together the present social diversity viewed by filmmakers from Romania and from abroad. The thirtheen documentaries in our special programme have been produced in Austria, Germany, Luxembourg, UK, Hunary and Romania. There is also an exhibition of 120 photographs made by 42 photographers, Transylvanian music, and Transylvanian brandy.
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| Bob Connolly
When we were thinking of a famous documentarist to present in a portrait section for this edition of the festival, the films of Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson came at once to my mind. I had first had the occasion to see these films during a research seminar in the Cross Cultural Research Centre in Canberra at the Australian National University.... |
| Michael Yorke
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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BBC view on Eastern Europe
Suits, Comrades and ‘Troublemakers’
This special section of the Astra film festival is designed to take a sideways look at a largely unexamined aspect of our continent’s history: the way a leading public service televisual broadcaster in western Europe approached the last years of Eastern Europe's communist dictatorship and their aftermath.
Arte view on Eastern Europe Since The Fall of the Berlin Wall and the adhesion of the majority of the countries once called “the Eastern European countries” at the United Europe, a new unified geo-political background has appeared. But, if, from now on, we travel freely in Europe, we only have to do something so that the Europeans know each other better.
Transhumance Shepherds And Film The special program Transhumance shepherds and film will consist in screening six films about different kinds of transhumance way of life in Scotland, in Iran, in Tibet, in Provence, in the Alps and in Romania. As an extension of this program, on the last day of the festival there will be a special interactive programnme in a shepherd village near Sibiu. On this occasion, shepherds from the nearby villages and the festival public will participate at screenings presenting a selection of scenes from the films included in the special Transhumance festival section, there will be discussions about transhumance life, and shepherd music from Italy, France and Romania.
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WORLD PREMIERE
 | Cold Waves
Director: Alexandru Solomon
Country: Romania/Germany/Luxembourg
Year: 2007
Length: 84
| Cold Waves tells the story of the strange alliance between a nationalist-communist dictatorship and international terrorism. It is a film about the war between Radio Free Europe and the Ceasescu regime who went as far as hiring Carlos de Jackal to annihilate key-people who worked for the Free Europe Radio Station. The film also makes an analysis of the power of media in the modern world.
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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
