Romanian film review – Tracing the real: Astra Film Festival
If you're in Sibiu at the moment, you have no excuse for not checking out Astra. If you are not and have some time on your hands, you should drop everything and rush to Sibiu. The anthropologically focused fest started yesterday (ending on…
Ioana Moldovan · Journalist
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If you're in Sibiu at the moment, you have no excuse for not checking out Astra. If you are not and have some time on your hands, you should drop everything and rush to Sibiu. The anthropologically focused fest started yesterday (ending on Sunday, 11 October) and screens some of the most striking international documentaries. If you've ever wondered how falcons are trained in the Middle East, what it's like to live as a small person, or how Japanese men date Moldavian women, then this is the right festival for you.
The selection features some of the most recent critical and audience darlings such as Joshua Oppenheimer devastating
genocide-themed
or Crystal Moselle's fascinating
,
a tale of six siblings in Manhattan who
were
expos
ed
to the outside world solely through movies
.
Other highlights include Tiha Gudac's family
memories
of
the Yugoslav
g
ulag
or
Jiří Stejskal's
loving portrait of a family struggling to keep their home and way of life in an increasingly dehumanized Kiev (
).
The Romanian entries are not just numerous but remarkable in their variety of approaches and themes, from the battered Romanian-Hungarian relations (
