Astra Film Fest - International Festival of Documentary Film and Visual Anthropology - Sibiu, Romania.

Astra Film Fest is an international film festival of documentary film and visual anthropology, organized biannually by Astra Film in Sibiu, Romania. Astra Film Fest is one of the most interesting and valued film festivals in Europe. The Festival provides a forum for the documentary film outside the commercial mainstream, as a means of cultural and cross-cultural understanding. The Festival creates a particular environment, removing barriers between cultures, between filmmakers and the audience, and between film experts and the public.

Documentary films promote cultural and cross-cultural understanding, and provide viewers with an intimate and detailed portrait of the human condition.

Astra Film Fest has found ways to make people aware of the unlimited possibilities offered by the documentary film in presenting cultures, people and mentalities. Thousands of viewers who come to the Festival venues daily have proved that documentary film and visual anthropology are not necessarily restricted to a narrow circle of experts.

Astra Film Foundation

Astra Film is a center for documentary film and visual anthropology in Romania running a well-established international film festival of documentary film and visual anthropology, called Astra Film Festival, producing its own documentary films, promoting the Romanian documentary film, organizing training programs, and managing an extensive documentary film archive with public screening facilities.

Astra Film is based in Sibiu, Romania and partners with documentary film and visual anthropology organizations worldwide.

Vision: To promote, encourage, and improve the research, production, and distribution of documentary and anthropological film, and to encourage the use of these films as a means to educate people towards a broader understanding of contemporary human life.

Mission: To provide the public with documentary and anthropological films, photographic images, film festivals, seminars, and programs that educate, give insight into the human condition, and promote cultural and cross-cultural understanding, and to provide a support-base and resource center for filmmakers, anthropological scholars, and students interested in using visual images to document and tell the story of everyday human drama.

Values: Documentary and anthropological films provide a visual history and give a realistic view of how people survive in their day-to-day existence. In order to present their subjects in an honest and truthful manner, these films must be free of commercial constraints and demands. These films promote cultural and cross-cultural understanding, and provide viewers with an intimate and detailed portrait of the human condition.

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