Following Romania’s #Astra Film Festival# Open Air in mid-September, its online session and competitions have now closed. Running from 16-25 October and featuring the festival’s «New Voices in Documentary Cinema», and the «Central and Eastern European Competition», as well as Industry Awards, the top prize went to Denmark’s Long Live Love.

The online jury consisted of programmers Federico d’Accinni (Italy) and Andrei Tănăsescu (Romania), as well as Finnish author Ilona Hongisto.

New Voices in Documentary Cinema Competition

• First Prize: Long Live Love (dir. Sine Skibsholt) – Denmark
• Special Mention: There Will Be No More Night (dir. Eléonore Weber) – France

Central and Eastern European Competition

• First Prize: As Long As You Still Have Arms (dir. Luisa Bäde) – Germany
• Special Mention: Pure Art – (dir. Maksim Shved) – Poland/Belarus

Industry awards

• Development Award (HBO): Don’t Worry, Sari! – (dir. Sari Haragonics) – Hungary
• Post-Production Award (CineLab Romania) – The Wedding Operation (dir. Daniel Barnuti) – Romania/Germany
• Project Boost Award (Pitch the Doc) – Lost and Found (dir. Laurenţiu Garofeanu) – Romania/Canada