03-10-2013

FESTIVALS: Astra FF 2013 Announces Competition Films

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    Astra Film Festival Astra Film Festival

    The 20th anniversary edition of Astra Film Festival taking place 14-20 October 2013 in Sibiu, Romania, will screen 100 documentaries (50 of them in its five competition sections) out of 1,350 films submitted to the festival.

    Along with the main international competition, the festival also offers the following competitions: Central and Eastern Europe, Romania, Student and EcocinematogrAFF. The festival also has a Made in Romania section.

    The nine films selected for the international competition includes:

    Three Sisters, Wang Bing (France/Hong Kong)

    Char… the No-Man’s Isand, Sourav Sarangi (India)

    Dancing Alone, Biene Pilavci (Germany)

    Forget Me Not, David Sieveking (Germany)

    In-Between Days, Sankhajit Biswas (India)

    La maison de la radio, Nicolas Philibert (France)

    Leviathan, Lucien Castaing-Taylor and Verena Paravel (USA)

    Matthew’s Laws, Marc Schmidt (Netherlands)

    My German Children, Tom Pauer (Israel)