LUXEMBOURG: Films by Igor Jelinović, Ivan Ostrochovský and Cecilia Ștefănescu are selected for the Main Competition of the 19th CinEast Festival, which will take place in Luxembourg 9 – 25 October 2026. The festival announced its programme yesterday.
SIBIU: Astra Film Festival has announced the selection for the competition programmes (Romania Competition, Central and Eastern European Competition, Emerging Voices of Documentary Film Competition, and DocSchool Competition) of its 33rd edition, to be held in Sibiu 17 - 25 October 2026. The over 70 titles and 200 film-related events are making it one of the most attractive cultural events of the autumn in Romania.
BRATISLAVA: Hollywood actor/director Ben Stiller has visited Slovakia’s High Tatra Mountains twice in 10 months. Local press writes that he was scouting for a film that he will direct.
LIMASSOL/NICOSIA: Submissions are now open for the 25th Cyprus Film Days International Festival 2027, which will be held 16–24 April 2027 in Limassol and Nicosia.
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Up Close, the World Looks Different. 12 ways of looking at the present at Astra Film Festival 2026
Festivals 24-09-2026A forest in Bucharest, a lover created by artificial intelligence, a shepherdess defending her mountain, and 80 journalists who refuse to remain silent: even though they may not seem to belong to the same story, they are all part of the Astra Film Festival 2026 story. The festival’s 12 thematic sections (17-25 October, Sibiu) bring together films that look at the world from very different angles, from family, memory and the places we live in to war, technology and power. Twelve perspectives that help us see the world up close, a little differently. Screenings are followed by discussions and Q&A sessions. Details about the AFF2026 thematic sections: https://astrafilm.ro/festival/program/thematic.
Astra Film Festival announces official selection. Four competition sections, 70 documentary films and more than 200 film events
Festivals 24-09-2026Astra Film Festival, the international documentary film festival taking place in Sibiu from 17 to 25 October, offers more than 200 film-related events, making the Sibiu festival one of the most attractive cultural events of the autumn in Romania. Competing for the awards in the festival’s four competition sections (Romania, Eastern Europe, Emerging Voices and DocSchool), most of them screening in Sibiu for the first time, will be films by some of the world’s most interesting documentary filmmakers.
Romanian productions at Astra Film Festival 2026: personal stories that open up the major themes of the present
Festivals 24-09-2026- Organisers announce Early Bird passes and the Festival Passport
A former political prisoner, a young woman adopted abroad who returns to Romania in search of her biological family, people brought together by faith and tradition, a community fighting to save a forest, and farmers who, ten years on, are still facing many of the same problems. These are just some of the stories told by Romanian films selected for Astra Film Festival 2026, taking place in Sibiu from 17 to 25 October.
Between 19 and 23 October, in Sibiu, pupils are discovering the world through documentary films, debating artificial intelligence and education, and learning to spot disinformation. Can artificial intelligence control our emotions? How do we recognise information that is trying to manipulate us? What does it mean to feel at home? Astra Film Junior brings these questions into the cinema and gives pupils the space to seek answers, debate and express their own perspectives.
