ASTRA FILM FEST 2007 celebrates the work of the renowned australian couple Bob Connolly and Robin Anderson in a special program.
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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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Following the successful photograph show Roma Culture (AFF 2000), Balkan Portraits (AFF 2002), Post-communist Russia (AFF 2004), Romania (AFF 2006), the 9th International Festival of Documentary Film & Visual Anthropology Astra Film Festival 2007 launnches a new ...
Cold Waves tells the story of the strange alliance between a nationalist-communist dictatorship and international terrorism.
A film about people and about cinema, telling the astounding story of a unique festival.