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A Brief History of Astra Film
2013
A Brief History of Astra Film
Sibiu
Real, possible, and imaginary lives or somewhere between documentary and fiction. The anniversary film A Short History of Astra Film, a story about people and cinema, winner at the Gopo Awards.
The film called A Brief History of Astra Film is an extraordinary cultural project that marks a twenty years history of the first Romanian international documentary film festival, Astra Film Festival.
The film reveals how on the first edition of the festival, to be sponsored meant to practically beg, thus to be humiliated, as back then this was a foreign concept in cultural management. Therefore, for the first edition, international volunteers were acquired.
Even if people, mentalities, communication mediums, and the manner in which information is disseminated are all exposed to radical change in our age, opposed to the situation of these in 1993, what stays the same all these years of Astra Film Festival is the genuine pleasure of meeting the other inside the projection room and outside it.
