Astra film fest 2021
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- DirectorLuca LucchesiFor many centuries, in a small town on the southern border of Europe, people have been worshipping a statue of a black Jesus. 19-year old Edward from Ghana, guest of the refugee center which is the subject of great debate in the village, asks to carry the statue in the annual procession and to stand next to the white locals that bear its cart. The community is divided. On a journey exploring the source of fear and prejudice against "the others", the inhabitants of this small European village are called upon to question their own identity, starting with the very icon of their own belief: a black Jesus.
- DirectorFrédéric MainçonAt the Palais de Tokyo, a major Parisian contemporary art centre, security agents watch over the artworks, and frisk and screen the visitors. What do they notice? What are they thinking?
- DirectorLászló BarnaStarsFrancisc 'Csangalo' MezeiCsángáló, the world-famous gypsy violist of the Szászcsávás Band, lives in a remote Transylvanian village. One day the old master's "breadwinner hand" starts shaking uncontrollably. He is suffering in Parkinson disease. A musician who drops the bow has no place in the band, thus Csángáló is expelled by his old friend, the band leader Dumnezeu. Surgery may cure his disease, but in Csángáló's archaic world, help can only come from God, there is no place for a brain surgery. His last hope is that Bálint, his equally talented grandson, would carry on the musical tradition, which is unique in the world. When everything seems to be lost, a miracle could only come from the hands of God.
- DirectorMaximilien DejoieVirginija VareikyteIn a country with a suicide epidemic, the power of human connection becomes lifesaving.
- DirectorEnsar AltayStarsKuniaki MuramatsuNorihito OikawaAiko OshimaNorihito, who works at a company that cleans up the houses of people who die alone, begins to question his own life and past due to all the lonely deaths he saw.
- DirectorGuido HendrikxOrdinary people suddenly find themselves face-to-face with a mysterious, silent camera operator.
- DirectorMoumouni SanouStarsOdile KambouFatim TiendrebeogoIn the district town of Bobo-Dioulasso, sex workers entrust their children to Ms Coda, an elderly woman who has been taking care of countless such charges for decades while their mothers take to the streets at night to work.
- DirectorMarina BelobrovajaDoes a woman necessarily need a man to have a child? And does he automatically become the father if conception occurs with his semen? Filmmaker Marina Belobrovaja has chosen a path that many women in a similar situation think about, but do not follow. In Our Child she explores the existing social ideas, role patterns and conventions surrounding parenthood and family, starting with the conception of her daughter with the help of a sperm donor.
- DirectorBruno PavicStarsNina KamenjarinHrvoje PelicaricMarin RenicAn unusual coexistence between people and industry in a small coastal area.
- DirectorMichal EdelmanAlthough they look almost identical in black balaclavas, they have arrived at extremely right-wing views along very different paths. For six months Michal Edelman documented the activity of the National-Radical Camp brigade from Lodz ranging from propaganda events including an obligatory barbecue through attempts to disrupt the Gay Parade in Radomsko to the culmination on the Independence Day in 2019 when they marched along the streets of Warsaw. Are the nationalists really a group of friends with clear-cut views only?
- DirectorIvana Marinic KragicStarsMia Anocic ValenticMaruska ArasJadranka ElezovicTwo nuns meet during a Catholic gathering and fall in love. Disillusioned by the Church and abuse within they decide to leave the convent.
- DirectorMarko Grba SinghStarsDobrivoje RadojaZoran Grba SinghNatasa Grba SinghMarko spends time in the abandoned apartment of his childhood in Belgrade. Traces of the past are being drawn and memories, both idyllic and traumatic, are combined. The family VHS archive shows his universe during 1998 and 1999: gatherings, pets, videogames and moments of uncertainty reveal a common life embraced by a historical event.
- DirectorIrena StetsenkoStarsDakh DaughtersVlad TroitskiyRuslana KhazipovaROSES. Film-Cabaret is a documentary cinéma vérité, following Dakh Daughters - an intellectual freak cabaret band, created by seven actresses under the roof of Kyiv experimental contemporary theater Dakh. The video diary spans almost five years, following Dakh Daughters since their first show, titled 'Roses' - after their first popular song 'Rozy / Donbas', written long before Donbas region became the war-torn zone of the so called 'Russian Spring'. ROSES. Film-Cabaret is about being an artist under extreme conditions of the pain and loss, realizing that during the war a natural self-defense would be creation - in terms of the art as well as motherhood. Film presents a special take on the Maidan revolution, as we are following the events through the eyes of the female artists, through women's eyes. Life is a cabaret for the characters of the film, so ROSES is a film-cabaret, where music hardly stops, pace never slows, and acting becomes something genuinely sincere. We see through Dakh Daughters' lives only to find out that all what happens behind the curtain is for the sake of being put on the stage.
- DirectorSalomé JashiDocumentary follows trees that are transported, at great expense and inconvenience, from the coast of the Republic of Georgia to the private garden of that country's former prime minister.
- DirectorAnna SavchenkoThe border between Lithuania and Belarus once was a fluid border between Soviet republics. Today it is one of the forgotten European outskirts with the Schengen fence dividing communities, families, lives.
- DirectorMartin PavWolves are back. They bring along both fear and hope. Do they still have place in our nature?
- DirectorCarmen Lidia Vidu60 artists from Romania and Austria tell the audience how they faced the lockdown and how they were changed by it.
- DirectorJacopo MarziA reflection on migration and identity through the lives of a European ethnic minority. Thirty years after their parents emigrated from Transylvania the young Transylvanian Saxons hold on to their heritage in a globalised Europe.
- DirectorIoana MischieStarsIoana Flora
- DirectorRares IenasoaieI met up again with my older sister after several years of separation. Prey to morphine, she lives a secluded life in her truck. As we spend time together, our words become easier, plunging us into a long drawn-out night.
- DirectorOlga LucovnicovaStarsOlga LucovnicovaTudorLoraIn intimate close-ups the camera captures an idyllic scene that seems to belong to a different era.
- DirectorAndra TararaThe director and her father take a camera in hand and film each other during interviews in which they discuss schizophrenia, their own pasts, and their personal conceptions of happiness. The film is a personal statement of two people affected by or marked by a mental disorder - a father forced to live with it and a daughter who had to grow up with a sick and often absent father. During filming, they try to find understanding for each other while revealing their inner traumas. One of the secondary topics is what it is like to undergo treatment for a mental disorder in Romania, as the father expresses frustration with the way he and his condition are viewed by the local healthcare system.
- DirectorEmmanuel CappellinStarsRichard HeinbergJean-Marc JancoviciSaleemul HuqONCE YOU KNOW takes us across the abyss of a world at the edge of climate-induced collapse, onto a climate science and civil disobedience journey.
- DirectorFranz BöhmThree young female activists in Hong Kong, Chile, and Uganda cope with the staggering personal impacts of their activism.
- DirectorMiriam GuttmannTwo mothers and their children must face a new reality and try to live with each other after finding out their fertility doctor, Jan Karbaat, secretly used his own seed instead of donors'.