Program Astra Film Festival
The 29th edition of the International Movie Festival from Sibiu, Astra Film Festival, will take place this year between the 9th and the 16th of October.
Having become an event of reference country-wide, this festival represents and exceptional cultural event, being a member of the European festivals family (EFFE), with a solid reputation, built on the originality and high valor of its programs. For more than a quarter of a century, Sibiu has been the bounding place for European and international cinematography, attracting hundreds of professionals from the cinematographic industry and thousands of documentary enthusiasts.
This year, Astra Film has a program full of exciting documentary productions from all over the world, that compete against each other for the awards of the festival or that are part of special programs, tied to the present realities of the world. Students of all ages, accompanied by their teachers, are expected to participate at Astra Film Junior, the program that educates through documentaries, unique in Romania, that records every year impressive numbers of participants. And what really transforms it in a unique festival is the presence in Sibiu of the cinema of the future, with a schedule of movies played in the cinema-dome in a 360-degree format and the immersive projection series at Astra Film New Media.
During the festival there are prepared hundreds of events: projections and talks with the directors and, in some cases, with the characters of the movie, meetings with important names in the cinematography, special programs for cinema lovers, international networking, releases, national and international premiers. On Saturday night, the 15th of October, will take place the Awards Gala, which will reunite all the personalities present at the festival, in an original visual show, in the exceptional ambiance of Thalia Hall, in Sibiu.
events
16 Oct 2023
12:30
16 Oct 2023 12:30
One Mother
Astra Film Festival
How does being abandonment by one’s mother shape a person’s identity? And if one mother is replaced by another, then how can we explain the adult’s mal d’être?
ASTRA FILM Cinema, Sibiu
One Mother
ASTRA FILM Cinema, Sibiu
price: 20 lei
price: 10 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
One Mother
16 Oct 2023
14:30
16 Oct 2023 14:30
Love is Not an Orange
Astra Film Festival
A film that recovers intimate family moments recorded on videotapes in Moldova in the 1990s, containing messages from children to their mothers who have gone to work in the West.
ASTRA FILM Cinema, Sibiu
Love is Not an Orange
ASTRA FILM Cinema, Sibiu
price: 20 lei
price: 10 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Love is Not an Orange
16 Oct 2023
17:00
16 Oct 2023 17:00
20 Days in Mariupol
Astra Film Festival
In February 2022, as the Russian army invades Ukraine, Ukrainian journalists trapped in Mariupol manage to capture terrifying scenes of the first weeks of the siege.
Thalia Hall, Sibiu
20 Days in Mariupol
Thalia Hall, Sibiu
price: 20 lei
price: 10 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
20 Days in Mariupol
16 Oct 2023
17:00
16 Oct 2023 17:00
Chemistry of Life
Astra Film Festival
A journey to an invisible world where we discover the chemistry and the secrets of life. A journey into your inner universe, a story about life and endless scientific exploration.
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
Chemistry of Life
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
price: 25 lei
price: 20 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Chemistry of Life
16 Oct 2023
18:30
16 Oct 2023 18:30
Mountains
Astra Film Festival
An autobiographical film about family dynamics that questions the roles played by grief, dislocation and isolation in nurturing self-destructive patterns of masculinity.
Cine Gold - Sala 5, Sibiu
Mountains
Cine Gold - Sala 5, Sibiu
price: 20 lei
price: 10 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Mountains
16 Oct 2023
19:00
16 Oct 2023 19:00
Light Falls Vertical
Astra Film Festival
A deft, articulate deconstruction of the relationship between violence and identity that urges us to descend into the most frightening and intimate layers of memory in order to contemplate the fragility of being human.
Cine Gold - Sala 7, Sibiu
Light Falls Vertical
Cine Gold - Sala 7, Sibiu
price: 20 lei
price: 10 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Light Falls Vertical
16 Oct 2023
19:00
16 Oct 2023 19:00
Playback
Astra Film Festival
What did the parties of the 1980s and 1990s look like? How did people have fun at the seaside during the communist era, and what is left today from those times?
Thalia Hall, Sibiu
Playback
16 Oct 2023
19:00
16 Oct 2023 19:00
Violin Recital Alexandru Tomescu
Astra Film Festival
"Alexandru Tomescu is a Romanian violinist. He plays a 1702 Stradivarius known as the Elder Voicu, which is on loan from the Romanian government until 2023. He was invited by the South Korean Ministry of Fine Arts (MOFA) to act as a Goodwill Ambassador for Public Diplomacy, part of an MOFA program to build cultural global cultural ties....See more details
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
Violin Recital Alexandru Tomescu
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
price: 25 lei
price: 20 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Violin Recital Alexandru Tomescu
16 Oct 2023
20:30
16 Oct 2023 20:30
Recombination
Astra Film Festival
Through colour, music and shapes, the production invites us into the world of an artist!
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
Recombination
Astra Film New Media (Dome, Piața Mare), Sibiu
price: 25 lei
price: 20 lei (Bilet elevi, studenți și pensionari)
Recombination
16 Oct 2023
21:00
16 Oct 2023 21:00
Retro Party with DJ Sorin Lupașcu, Mirabela Dauer, Gabriela Atanasov și Horia Stan
Astra Film Festival
"Mirabela Dauer is a Romanian female pop star who has been famous for muzică ușoară (easy listening) music of the 1980, 1990, 2000s. Her huge repertoire (over 600 songs) includes various genres of music. In 2015 the artist was chosen by Walt Disney Pictures to provide the Romanian voice of a witch in the animated movie The Black Cauldron....See more details
Sala Thalia - Chimniță, Sibiu
Retro Party with DJ Sorin Lupașcu, Mirabela Dauer, Gabriela Atanasov și Horia Stan
Sala Thalia - Chimniță, Sibiu
price: 35 lei
Retro Party with DJ Sorin Lupașcu, Mirabela Dauer, Gabriela Atanasov și Horia Stan