Astra Film Junior takes youngsters on an educational adventure around the World in 23 films
Astra Film Junior, the educational documentary film festival dedicated to children and teenagers, returns to Sibiu between October 9 and 16.
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Astra Film Junior, the educational documentary film festival dedicated to children and teenagers, returns to Sibiu between October 9 and 16.
Designed for three age categories - 6+, 11+, and 15+, the AF Junior educational program includes film screenings in cinema halls and in the Astra Film New Media full-dome 360 cinema, followed by didactic activities, film workshops, and a comic strip contest.
In the 6+ category, the organizers have chosen films that tell the life stories of children close to their own age, children who came out of anonymity by thinking outside the box, through a constant desire for knowledge and insight.
Yang, an 11-year-old boy from China, makes many sacrifices to learn all about traditional Chinese theater (The Monkey King, 2019). Aatos, Amine and Flo, three inseparable friends from a neighborhood in Brussels, are looking for answers to big people's questions (Aatos and the World, 2019).
Azat and his colleagues, from Tartastan, are 12 years old and as little journalists, they go on an important mission each week (Azat and Youtubers from Tartastan, 2018). In turn, Clara, Matei, and their friends embark on a journey full of adventures in the Danube Delta (Sentries of the Delta, 2022).
And the film #On the Web answers questions such as How does the internet work? and Who are the trolls?
Viewers in the 11+ categorywill learn about the dreams of children from different corners of the world: Asho, from Iran, wants to become a famous actor (Asho, 2019); Ayana, a girl from Kyrgyzstan, would like to be first in an exclusively male sport (Ayana, 2019); Rehad, from Denmark, wants to become a pigeon breeder (Bird Boy, 2019), and Julieta, a young woman from the Netherlands, initiates an action to clean the ocean, which she considers her second home (Julieta & the turtles in the plastic soup, 2020).
In the 15+ category, high school students will discover the life of one of the most followed 14-year-old girls on Instagram (Girl Gang, 2022), the artistic maturation of a Norwegian singer who drops out of school to become a pop star (Aurora, 2019 ), or the way in which the image of the communist dictator Nicolae Ceaușescu is perceived by today's teenagers (
