The festival is organising four competitions as usually: OutstandDox Award Competition (the former International Competition), the Central-Eastern European Competition, the Romanian Competition and the Student Competition. However, the films are also arranged in themes such as No Place like Dis-place, Doc-vlog, Stories from Urbania, Refurbished Past, Inside Radical Islam, Communist Faiths or Self, Family, Society.
Astra Film Festival Sibiu is organised by ASTRA Film – Centre for Documentary Film and Visual Education, Department the National Museum ASTRA in Sibiu and by the ASTRA Film Foundation, with the support of the Local Council Sibiu, the Ministry of Culture, the MEDIA Programme, Sibiu City Hall and the Romanian Film Centre. The major partner of the festival is the Romanian Cultural Institute.
LINEUP:
OutstandDox Award Competition
Changa Revisited (USA)
Directed by Peter Biella, Leonard Kamerling
Dead Slow Ahead (Spain, France)
Directed by Mauro Herce
Depth Two (Serbia, France)
Directed by Ognen Glavonić
Don Juan (Sweden, Finland)
Directed by Jerzy Sladkowski
Employment Office/Bureau de chomage (Belgium)
Directed by Anne Schiltz, Charlotte Grégoire
Keep Quiet (UK, Hungary)
Directed by Sam Blair, Joseph Martin
The Dark Gene/Das dunkle Gen (Germany, Switzerkand)
Directed by Gerhard Schick, Miriam Jakobs
The New Man/El hombre nuevo (Uruguay, Chile)
Directed by Aldo Garay
Central- Eastern European Documentary Competition
Train to Adulthood/Reményvasút (Hungary)
Directed by Klara Trencseny
Abdul &Hamza (Serbia)
Directed by Marko Grba Singh
Trapped by Law (Kosovo, Germany)
Directed by Sami Mustafa
Alisa in Warland/Alisa w krainie wojny (Poland)
Directed by Alisa Kovalenko, Liubov Durakova
Chech against Czechs (Czech Republic)
Directed by Tomas Kratochvil
The Dazzling Light of Sunset (Germany, Georgia)
Directed by Salome Jashi
The Halves/Les moitiés (France, Russia)
Directed by Alexander Zarchikov
Parchim International (Germany)
Directed by Stefan Eberlein, Manuel Fenn
Anthill/Sipelgapesa (Estonia)
Directed by Vladimir Loginov
The Dybbuk, a Tale of Wondering Soul/Dybuk. Recz o wędrówce dusz (Poland, Sweden, Ukraine)
Directed by Krzysztof Kopczynski
Romanian Documentary Competition
A Mere Breath/Doar o răsuflare (Romania)
Directed by Monica Lăzurean-Gorgan
Angela (Romania)
Directed by Botond Püsök
Pregnant in Romania/Sunt însărcinată în România (Romania, Spain)
Directed by Jesús Del Cerro
Cinema mon Amour (Romania, Czech Republic)
Directed by Alexandru Belc
The Block/Blocul (UK)
Directed by Maria Salaru
God Save the Partisans as We Await for the Americans!/ Ține, Doamne, partizanii, până vin americanii! (Romania)
Directed by Dragos Zămoșteanu
The Red Emperess – The Life and Adventures of Ana Pauker/ Imparateasa rosie – Viata si aventurile Anei Pauker (Romania)
Directed by Radu Gabrea
The Manakia Brothers. Diaries of a Long Look Back/Frații Manakia. Jurnalul unei lungi priviri înapoi (Romania)
Directed by Eliza Zdru
The New Gypsy Kings (UK)
Directed by Liviu Tipurita
