OFFICIAL SELECTION ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2026

ROMANIA COMPETITION

1. A FOREST ONCE STOOD HERE! ; dir: Valentin Anghel ; Romania ; 68 mins

2. SO FAMILIAR | SOMETHING FAMILIAR ; dir: Rachel Taparjan ; Romania, United Kingdom ; 90 mins

3. HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA; dir: Rusudan Gaprindashvili; Georgia, Germany; 72 mins

4. A TRAIN PASSES EVERY DAY AND IT NEVER STOPS ; dir: Vlad Petri ; Romania ; 65 mins

5. IT’S BEEN SO LONG SINCROMANIA COMPETITION

1.      A FOREST ONCE STOOD HERE! ; dir: Valentin Anghel ; Romania ; 68 mins

2.      A TRAIN PASSES EVERY DAY AND IT NEVER STOPS ; dir: Vlad Petri ; Romania ; 65 mins

3.      CABBAGE, POTATOES AND OTHER DEMONS. AFTER 10 YEARS ; dir: Șerban Georgescu ; Romania ; 80 mins 

4.      HOW TO TALK TO LYDIA ; dir: Rusudan Gaprindashvili ; Georgia, Germany ; 72 mins

5.      LENIN’S PAWN ; dir: Dragoș Turea ; Romania, Moldova ; 84 mins

6.      SO LONG SINCE I’VE KNOWN A SPRING ; dir: Alexandra Bidian ; Germany, Romania ; 91 mins

7.      SOMETHING FAMILIAR ; dir: Rachel Taparjan ; Romania, United Kingdom ; 90 mins

8.      THE EXPORTED: THE DARK TRADE OF THE COLD WAR ; dir: Pierre Goetschel ; France ; 60 mins

9.      THE LINE ; dir: Andreea Dumitriu ; Romania, Netherlands ; 40 mins

EASTERN EUROPE COMPETITION

1.      80 ANGRY JOURNALISTS ; dir: András Földes, Anna Kis ; Germany, Hungary, Czech Republic, Denmark, Norway ; 94 mins

2.      HERE, ELSEWHERE ; dir: Comes Chahbazian ; Belgium ; 66 mins

3.      IMAGO ; dir: Déni Oumar Pitsaev ; France, Belgium ; 109 mins

4.      CLOSURE ; dir: Michał Marczak ; Poland, France ; 105 mins

5.      TO HOLD A MOUNTAIN ; dir: Biljana Tutorov, Petar Glomazić ; Serbia, France, Montenegro, Slovenia ; 105 mins

6.      STEPS IN SILENCE ; dir: Fariz Ahmadov ; Azerbaijan, Poland ; 72 mins

7.      THE SPIES AMONG US ; dir: Jamie Coughlin Silverman, Gabriel Silverman  ; United States ; 94 mins

8.      LAST LETTERS FROM MY GRANDMA ; dir: Olga Lucovnicova ; Romania, Moldova, Belgium, Netherlands ; 94 mins

9.      A FIRE THERE ; dir: Marlene Edoyan ; Canada ; 94 mins

10.  TRACES ; dir: Alisa Kovalenko, Marysia Nikitiuk ; Ukraine, Poland ; 82 mins

EMERGING VOICES COMPETITION

1.      BIRDS OF WAR ; dir: Janay Boulos, Abd Alkader Habak ; United Kingdom, Syria, Lebanon ; 85 mins

2.      CONFESSIONS OF A MOLE ; dir: Mo Tan ; China, Poland ; 92 mins

3.      IF PIGEONS TURNED TO GOLD ; dir: Pepa Lubojacki ; Czech Republic, Slovakia ; 100 mins

4.      FROM DAWN TO DAWN ; dir: Xisi Sofia Ye Chen ; Spain, France ; 96 mins

5.      SILENT FLOOD ; dir: Dmytro Sukholytkyy-Sobchuk ; Ukraine, Germany ; 90 mins

6.      THE GOLDEN SWAN ; dir: Anette Ostrø ; Norway, Denmark, Sweden, Netherlands ; 88 mins

7.      CONFESSIONS OF A SWEDISH MAN ; dir: Hampus Linder ; Sweden, Sweden, Sweden ; 96 mins

8.      TECHPLOMACY ; dir: Susanne Kovács ; Denmark ; 93 mins

9.      WHERE THE SILENCE IS HEARD ; dir: Gabriela Pena, Picho García ; Chile, Spain ; 94 mins

10.  DAYS OF WONDER ; dir: Karin Pennanen ; Finland, Denmark, Norway ; 88 mins

STUDENT COMPETITION

1.      AMMA, DO GIRAFFES CRY? ; dir: Kartikeya Saxena ; Czech Republic ; 26 mins

2.      AN AWESOME FLAT ; dir: Gabriela Isabel Gómez de Arteche Núñez, Alejandra Llorens, Daniel Pérez Valderrama, Camila de Lucas, Jaime Marqués Cordero ; Spain ; 17 mins

3.      BLESSED ; dir: Voicu Mureșanu ; Romania ; 26 mins

4.      BOX IN BERCENI ; dir: Alexandru Buliga ; Romania ; 24 mins

5.      SINGING IN THE GRAVE ; dir: Radu Ștefan Lungu ; Romania ; 35 mins

6.      WINTER IN MARCH ; dir: Natalia Mirzoyan ; Estonia ; 16 mins

7.      END OF THE LINE ; dir: Maria Stafie ; Romania ; 19 mins

8.      TOTAL LIFE FOREVER ; dir: Sebastian Molina Ruiz ; Belgium, Mexico, Hungary, Portugal ; 19 mins

9.      SIGNS FROM BELOW ; dir: Maude Vuillez ; France ; 22 mins

10.  SASSY SPARTANS ; dir: Maud Mascre ; Germany, New Caledonia ; 78 mins

11.  ALL THAT WE SAY TO EACH OTHER ; dir: Anton Augsten, Lea El Attal ; Germany ; 29 mins

12.  THE BLACK BLIZZARD ; dir: Mira Erkenova ; Russia ; 34 mins

THEMATIC PROGRAMMES

1.      UNCONDITIONAL? ; dir: Frank de Rooij ; Netherlands ; 71 mins

2.      MILKY WAY; dir: Dumitru Budrala ; Romania ; 120 mins

3.      CHILD TRAFFICKING ; dir: Olivier Ballande ; France ; 57 mins

4.      WILD DELTA; dir: Director ; Tara ; 125 mins

5.      ON THE ROAD; dir: Dumitru Budrala ; Romania ; 43 mins

6.      WOOL MAN SHEEP ; dir: Walter Aigner ; Austria ; 65 mins

7.      ELON MUSK UNVEILED - THE TESLA EXPERIMENT ; dir: Andreas Pichler ; Germany ; 90 mins

8.      POWER STATION ; dir: Daniel Edelstyn, Hilary Powell ; United Kingdom ; 96 mins

9.      REPLICA ; dir: Chouwa Liang ; Australia, France ; 90 mins

10.  SOULS ON FIRE ; dir: Urs Egger ; Germany ; 110 mins

11.  GRASS: A NATION BATTLE FOR LIFE ; dir: Merian C. Cooper, Ernest Schoedsack ; United States; 71 mins