Portrait Leonard Helmrich

Astra Film Festival 2009 is proud to present the portrait of Leonard Retel Helmrich, whose sesies of documentaries shot in Indonezia have won awards worldwide.

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The New Wave and The Documentary

CORNELIU PORUMBOIU presents ... CRISTI PUIU presents ...

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Astra Film Junior 2009. Good Morning, World!

„All grown-ups were once children - although few of them remember it.” These words preface the fantastic voyage of Saint-Exupéry’s Little Prince, who leaves his house-sized planet to see what the rest of the universe is like.

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Public Interest On Media Agenda

Soros Foundation Romania launched the Public Interest on Media Agenda program in 2008, as a multi-year documentary competition for local television stations across Romania, combined with training on documentary making.

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Photography Exhibition. Romania In The Early 20th century

Romania In The Early 20th century. Documented by Iosif Berman and Emil Fischer.

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Focus. Made In Romania

Whether the author is a foreigner filming in Romania, or a Romanian filming elsewhere, or both filmmaker and subject are local, the productions in this focus-section are Made in Romania.

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Turkey, the unknown neighbour

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.

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Panorama

Seven films presenting shocking stories, amazing characters, and dramatic destinies, are grouped in the section PANORAMA.

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The Romanian Documentary, 20 years after

Astra Film Sibiu organizes during its Astra Film Festival 2009 a special program dedicated to the last two decades of Romanian documentary. The program is designed for professionals, and consists of presentations made by organizations  involved in the domestic documentary film production, and roundtable discussions.

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Mala Sangre: Live Music - Spain

In 1996, two sisters from Andalusia, Marta and Maria, left Sevilla to discover the life of Amsterdam. There, they met Maria Romero and the three of them made up a dance group they called Mala Sangre.

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