A total of 126 films from 45 countries and five continents will meet the Romanian audience at the 26th edition of the Astra Film Festival (14-20 October, Sibiu), the country's biggest documentary gathering. Fifty-five of the films will be shown as world, international or national premieres at Astra. Forty-six movies will be competing in the festival's four official competitions, while another 80 will be screened in 12 thematic sections or in the Astra Film Junior programme, which is intended to educate the next generation of documentary lovers.

The titles announced for the International Competition are Pawel Ziemilski's In Touch [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Poland/Iceland), César Alejandro Jaimes and Juan Pablo Polanco's Lapü (Colombia), Ellen Fiske and Ellinor Hallin's Scheme Birds [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Sweden/UK), Valentina Primavera's Una Primavera [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Italy/Austria/Germany), Andrei Kutsila's Strip and War [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Belarus/Poland), Jane Bibi's A Perfect Housewife (Israel), Elodie Lélu's Letter to Theo [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Belgium), Gulistan Mirzaei and Elizabeth Mirzaei's Laila at the Bridge (Canada/Afghanistan), Waad Al-Kateab and Edward Watts' For Sama [+lire aussi :
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interview : Waad Al-Kateab, Edward Watts
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interview : Ksenia Okhapkina
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Meanwhile, the Central and Eastern European Competition comprises Anna Kryvenko's My Unknown Soldier [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (France/Bulgaria), Eszter Hajdu's Hungary 2018 - Behind the Scenes of Democracy [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Hungary/Portugal), Zsuzsanna Gellér-Varga's Angel Business (Hungary), Zosya Rodkevich and Evgeniya Ostanina's White Mama [+lire aussi :
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interview : Zosya Rodkevich
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interview : Nadia Parfan
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fiche film] (Russia/Lithuania), Aleksander Elkan's Hey, Bro! (Russia), Raimo Joerand and Kiur Aarma's Rodeo [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Estonia/Finland), and Sergei Loznitsa's State Funeral [+lire aussi :
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As for the Romanian competition, it includes 11 features either produced or co-produced by Romanian production companies, or focusing on local topics: namely, Mona Nicoară and Dana Bunescu's The Distance Between Me and Me [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania/USA), Mihai Mincan and George Chiper-Lillemark's The Man Who Would Be Free [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania), Şerban Georgescu's Being Romanian: A Family Journal [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania), Dragoş Zămosteanu's Group Canal '77 (Romania), Boris Missirkov and Georgi Bogdanov's Palace for the People [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Bulgaria/Germany/Romania), Diana Gavra's The House with a Lock (Romania/Spain), Dragoş Turea's The Soviet Garden [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania/Moldavia), Alex Brendea's Teach [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania), Adrian Robe and Denisa Morariu Tamaş's The Golden Girl [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (Romania), Alexander Nanau's Colectiv [+lire aussi :
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Finally, the DocSchool competition mixes 14 shorts and features produced by documentary film schools.