Astra Film

INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION
Life’s simple moments, personal dramas, transcontinental love stories, struggle, failure, disappointment, success, confusion and search for self-identity, migration and roots, obsolete social norms, people living in the past, people striving to build their future, are pieces of life tales told in the fourteen films of the INTERNATIONAL COMPETITION.
Momente simple ale vieţii, drame personale, poveşti de dragoste transcontinentale, luptă, eşec, dezamăgire, succes, confuzie şi căutarea identităţii de sine, migraţie şi rădăcini, norme sociale învechite, oameni care trăiesc în trecut, oameni care se străduiesc să îşi construiască viitorul, toate sunt fragmente de poveşti de viaţă spuse în cele 14 filme ale COMPETIŢIEI INTERNAŢIONALE.
THE ABSENCE, Ricardo Greene, Chile/UK
A BLOOMING BUSINESS, Ton Van Zantvoort, The Netherlands 
BRIDES OF ALLAH, Natalie Assouline, Israel
DONKEY IN LAHORE, Faramarz K-Rahber, Australia 
GANDHI'S CHILDREN , David MacDougall, Australia
GEARING UP , Sheetal S. Agarwal, Hong Kong 
GLORIOUS EXIT , Kevin Merz, Switzerland 
HORSEMEN , Nancy Muquing Wu, China
THE LAST RITES OF THE HONORABLE MR. RAI , Jayasinhji Jhala, USA
MONTI MOMENTS: MEN'S MEMORIES IN THE HEART OF ROME , Michael Herzfeld, USA
NORTH-SOUTH.COM , Francois Ducat, Belgium
ROUGH CUT , Firouzeh Khosrovani, Iran
SWEETGRASS , Lucien Castaing, Taylor & Ilisa Barbash, USA
THE TALE OF NICOLAI & THE LAW OF RETURN , Ofek David, Israel




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FILM ARCHIVE

ASTRA FILM manages an extensive documentary film collection with public screening facilities. The ASTRA FILM archive started in 1990, and it has collected since thousands of documentaries produced in over 70 countries.

Due to our focus on the Eastern European and Romanian production, the ASTRA FILM archive holds a unique collection of documentaries documenting the issues of post-communism and transition in the region.

ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009

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News about documentary in Romania
logo_soros.jpgFundatia Soros Romania lanseaza concursul de film de scurtmetraj Open Society Shorts. Deadline: 3 mai 2010

CONTEMPORARY ROMANIAN CINEMA, 05/- 30/03 2010
ucla.jpgASTRA FILM promovează documentarul românesc la UCLA Film and Television Archive din Los Angeles

logo_fundatia_ratiu.jpg 2009 AFF Grand Prize
& STEPdoc Award