Festival 2009Turkey, the unknown neighbour

THE UNKNOWN NEIGHBOR - TURKEY
TURCIA - VECINUL NECUNOSCUT

In Romania, kids learn about the battles fought - and won - by the Romanians against the Turks. Turkish kids obviously use different history schoolbooks, and it is most likely that they know little about Romania, if anything at all. So, let us forget everything we thought we knew about Turkey, about its culture and its people. Astra Film Festival 2009 presents an attractive selection of five documentaries, each of them approaching, in its own style, a country so close to Romania’s history and geography.
In România, copiii învaţă despre bătăliile purtate – şi căştigate – de români împotriva turcilor. Copiii turci folosesc manuale de istorie diferite şi este foarte probabil că ştiu foarte puţine lucruri despre România, dacă nu chiar nimic. Aşa că hai să uităm tot ce am crezut că ştim despre Turcia, despre cultura sa şi poporul ei. Festivalul de Film Astra 2009 prezintă o selecţie atractivă de cinci documentare, fiecare din ele abordand în propriul stil o ţară atât de apropiată de istoria şi geografia României.

ADAKALE STORIES , Ismet Arasan

ALETHEA , Petra Holzer & Ethem Özgüven

BASTION OF SIN , Thomas Lauterbach

THE SHORE , Ruya Arzu Koksal

SISTERS OF LILITH , Emel Çelebi

FESTIVAL PROGRAM

film screenings

AFF09 Film Program (.pdf)

Mo.26 | Tu.27 | We.28 | Th.29

Fr.30 | Sa.31 | Su.01

events

Mo.26 - Su.01

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.