Editia jubiliara a Festivalului International de Film Documentar se va desfasura la Sibiu, in perioada 26 octombrie – 1 noiembrie. Peste o suta de filme au fost selectate pentru a fi vizionate in cele patru sectiuni ale festivalului: International, Europa, Romania si Student. Cu prilejul celei de-a X-a editii a festivalului international de film documentar Astra Film Festival organizatorii vor marca 20 de ani de documentar romanesc prin programe speciale, care isi propun sa promoveze cele mai noi realizari in domeniu. Regizorii Cristi Puiu si Corneliu Porumboiu vor fi prezenti la Sibiu in cadrul programului 'Regizori ai noului val isi prezinta documentarele lor preferate'.

La sectiunea Romania, filmele lui Alexandru Solomon, Thomas Ciulei, Alexandra Gulea, Tudor Giurgiu intra in concurs cu documentarele lui Marian Crisan (castigatorul Palm D’ or, Cannes Film Festival 2008 pentru cel mai bun scurtmetraj) si cu cele de debut ale Adinei Popescu, Vlad Naumescu & Klara Trencsényi si altii.

Programul Festivalului Astra Film 26.10-01.11 2009

LUNI, 26 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

08:30 Les petits matins du monde 45’

11:00 Look at the life through my eyes 45’

12:00 Horsemen 98’

13:45 Family 068 27’

14:20 Rough cut 22’

15:00 The cross 19’

15:30 The amount of small things 92’

17:15 Doing the Norway 31’

18:00 Gearing up 27’

19:00 – ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009 CEREMONIA DE DESCHIDERE

19:30 Carmen meets Borat 85’

21:10 Lost in transition 60’

22:25 Ivetka and the mountain 84’

LUNI, 26 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 Lost world 20’

10:30 Until the time comes… 25’

11:00 Somebody like me 30’

11:35 Soul 30’

12:10 Peace for all 26’

12:40 Adela & Agnetha 31’

13:20 Where the sun doesn’t rush 18’

13:45 Me and my life 40’

14:25 Balkan’s digest 26’

15:00 7109 KM 20’

15:25 Monti moments 39’

16:10 Counting lambs 15’

16:30 Once upon a train 11’

16:45 My beautiful Dacia 74’

18:10 Romanian voices... 22’

20:00 Blooming business 52’

21:00 Upstream battle 97’

22:50 Back passing 29’

MARŢI, 27 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

08:30 Les petits matins du monde 30’

09:00 Home away from home 15’

11:00 Somebody like me 30’

11:40 World number 2 28’

12:15 Peace for all 26’

12:50 Ethnoscape 12’

13:20 Model citizens 20’

13:50 Waiting for women 34’

15:00 At home anywhere 58’

16:15 The last rites of the honorable Mr. Rai 47’

17:15 Shadow of the holy book 90’

20:00 Alethea 60’

21:30 Adakale stories 54’

22:40 Singing 57’

MARŢI, 27 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 Gandhi’s children 185’

13:15 Prose of time 10’

13:30 My beautiful Dacia 74’

15:00 Enduring life 37’

15:45 The shore 56’

17:00 Glorious exit 75’

20:00 Copşa Mica, Dudu’s dark town 45’

21:00 Sisters of lilith 41’

22:00 Bastion of sin 79’

MIERCURI, 28 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

08:30 Les petits matins du monde 45’

11:00 Children of Che Guevara 47’

12:00 Rouge nowa huta 53’

13:10 Alyosha 67’

14:25 Soul 30’

15:00 Funny sisters 82’

16:35 Against blood justice 52’

17:50 Am I lucky 52’

19:00 Corneliu Porumboiu prezintă... Out of the present de A. Ujică 96’

21:00 Testimonial 90’

22:45 Flying on one engine 51’

MIERCURI, 28 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 Absence 12’

10:15 The cross 19’

10:40 At home anywhere 58’

11:45 Family 068 27’

12:20 Doing the Norway 31’

13:00 Gearing up 27’

13:35 Two or three things about activism 73’

15:00 Water that kills 23’

Midways 25’

The chronicle of a disaster foretold 29’

Home alone, chapter 60+ 25’

Industrial 23’

The massacre 22’

Substitute country 26’

19:00 Faust – the path of the moment 49’

20:00 The power of suspecting – Eginald Schlattner and the Securitate-trauma 90’

21:45 Donkey in Lahore 117’

JOI, 29 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

08:30 Palna’s daughters 70’

11:00 The prose of time 10’

11:20 We weren’t people, we were numbers… Auschwitz 45’

12:20 Rapresent 30’

13:10 Gauchos 85’

15:00 In January, perhaps 50’

16:00 My class – from Russia with relativity 89’

17:45 Weddings, music and videotapes 52’

19:00 Children of uranium 62’

20:20 Apocalypse on wheels 52’

21:25 Absence 12’

21:50 You live and burn 69’

23:15 World number 2 28’

JOI, 29 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 Ethnoscape 12’

10:15 Model citizens 20’

10:40 Waiting for women 34’

11:20 Health bus at the red light district 54’

12:20 Birds’ way 52’

13:20 People dreams action 88

15:00 Promised paradise 53’

16:30 The eye of the day 94’

19:00 Shape of the moon 92’

21:00 Last mission 13’

21:25 Against blood justice 52’

22:25 Enduring life 37’

23:10 Lost in transition 60’

VINERI, 30 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

10:00 Where the sun doesn’t rush 18’

10:30 Once upon a train 11’

10:50 Counting lambs 15’

11:15 Birds’ way 52’

12:20 People dreams action 88’

14:00 Berlin, Kreuzberg 36 50’

15:00 Brides of Allah 76’

16:30 Humoresca 16’

17:00 Constantin and Elena 103’

19:00 Cristi Puiu prezintă… The store de F. Wiseman 118’

21:30 The tale of Nicolai & the law of return 54’

22:30 The speaking tree 65’

23:45 The last rites of the honorable Mr. Rai 47’

VINERI, 30 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 7109 km 20’

10:25 Rapresent 30’

11:00 My class – from Russia with relativity 89’

12:40 Alyosha 67’

14:00 Monday 55’

15:00 About Iulian Mihu, as he was, about us, the way we are 90’

16:35 Today I was young and pretty 52’

17:35 A fancy house 70’

19:00 Singing 57’

20:10 Health bus at the red light district 54’

21:10 Sweetgrass 105’

23:10 Look at the life through my eyes 45’

SÎMBĂTĂ, 31 OCTOMBRIE – SALA A

10:00 North-south.com 52’

11:00 Today I was young and pretty 52’

12:10 Berlin, Kreuzeberg 36 50’

13:10 Flower bridge 87’

15:00 Australia 65’

16:15 Balkan’s digest 26’

17:00 Prisoners of a white god 52’

20:00 Donkey in Lahore 117’

22:10 Glorious exit 75’

SÎMBĂTĂ, 31 OCTOMBRIE – SALA B

10:00 We weren’t people, we were numbers… Auschwitz 45’

10:50 Me and my life without some things 40’

11:35 Children of uranium 62’

12:45 Rough cut 22’

13:20 The amount of small things 92’

15:00 Children of Che Guevara 47’

16:00 Apocalypse on wheels 52’

17:00 Shadow of the holy book 90’

20:00 Dolls – a woman from Damascus 53’

21:00 Zen 127’

SÎMBĂTĂ, 31 OCTOMBRIE – SALA THALIA

19:00 – ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – CEREMONIA DE PREMIERE DUMINICĂ, 01 NOIEMBRIE – SALA A

11:00 Am I lucky 52’

12:00 Monday 55’

13:00 Rouge Nowa Huta 53’

14:00 North-south.com 52’

16:00 Horsemen 98’

18:00 – ASTRA FILM FESTIVAL 2009 – FILMELE PREMIATE ÎN FESTIVAL

DUMINICĂ, 01 NOIEMBRIE – SALA B

11:00 Funny sisters 82’

12:30 Flower bridge 87’

13:40 Constantin and Elena 103’

16:00 The tale of Nicolai & the law of return 54’

17:00 You live and burn 69’

18:30 Gauchos 85’

20:10 Ivetka and the mountain 84’

22:00 Brides of Allah 76’