Suspended in middair
UKRAINE: A small group of social workers work to create a much-needed safe space for children to live in.
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Invisible woman
MIGRANTS: Philip Scheffner’s foray into fiction varies the game of visible and invisible until dreams and reality fuse.
The soldiers who refused to die
CONFLICT: A Soviet soldier of Tatar descent captured by the Nazis during WWII leads to a story of an army caught between dictators.
A beautiful, claustrophobic sensory assault
PRISON: An experimental journey into the history of Estonia’s notorious Patarei Sea Fortress.
Landscapes of Resistance
TRAUMA: An unorthodox documentary on the exceptional journey of one of Serbia’s first female partisans, who helped lead the resistance in Auschwitz.
Caught in the Net should really be on the net if it’s going to change anything
DOK.REVUE: Discussion about the new film by Vít Klusák and Barbora Chalupová Caught in the Net.
Year of the soldiers’ babies
CONFLICT: Decades after many young Peruvian women were raped by army soldiers, they take the perpetrators to court in the name of justice and dignity.
At the fringes of Europe
MIGRANTS: Encounters with volunteers and clashes with state forces and right-wing citizens pepper the uncertain future of the refugees.
«Now, in the midst of pandemic constraints, is the best time to reflect on the essential role of the films, cinema, film festivals»
ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL: Head of Programming Csilla Kato speaks on the Romanian documentary festival’s 2020 hybrid edition, its challenges, and the post-pandemic industry.