Given the health situation, the Astra Film Festival was forced to split its 2020 edition into an outdoor edition in September and a ten-day, online edition starting on 16 October. If the festival favoured its Romanian Competition for September, as the Romanian directors could easily travel to the city of Sibiu and attend the outdoor screenings, the online edition trains the spotlight on Astra’s other two traditional competitions: the New Voices in Documentary Cinema Competition, also known as the international competition, which showcases first, second or third features by the selected directors; and the Central and Eastern Europe Competition. This year, each of these will showcase ten medium- or feature-length documentaries.

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The New Voices in Documentary Cinema Competition consists of Goerg Oberlechner's The Corncrake Paradox (Austria), Sun Hee Engelstoft's Forget Me Not [+lire aussi :
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The Central and Eastern Europe Competition consists of Luisa Bäde's As Long as You Still Have Arms [+lire aussi :
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fiche film] (UK/Kazakhstan), Zsuzsanna Bak's Order and Soul [+lire aussi :
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All of the films will be available for screening within the territory of Romania. The festival will also make ten titles that screened at the outdoor edition available online, including Ellen Fiske and Joanna Karlberg's Josefin & Florin [+lire aussi :
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The online iteration also comes with a new edition of DokTank, the festival’s industry programme, which will be held exclusively online from 18-22 October.