After ten intense days of top-quality cinema filled with screenings, debates, and encounters between filmmakers and the Sibiu audience, Astra Film Festival 2025 continues online. Between October 26 and November 9, documentary lovers all over Romania can access a selection of 34 documentaries presented during AFF2025, grouped into thematic categories.

The lineup includes award-winning films from the AFF2025 competition, such as “To the West, in Zapata” (David Bim, Cuba, 2025) – Grand Prize, Emerging Voices, “Bright Future” (Andra MacMasters, Romania, 2024) – Best Director, Romania Section, “God’s Unknown Plan” (Moritz Mueller-Preisser, Germany, 2025) – Best Documentary, DocSchool Section, and “67 Milliseconds” (Fleury Fontaine, France, 2025) – Grand Prize, DocShorts Section.

A single ticket for any film at AFF Online costs 25 lei, while a full pass for all 34 films is 150 lei. More details are available on the festival website https://online.astrafilm.ro and on Astra Film Festival’s social media pages.

Astra Film Festival Online, thematic selection

Becoming an adult, becoming a parent features films about transitions, unconventional families, loss, and growing up: “Portrait of a Confused Father” (Gunnar Hall Jensen, Norway, 2025), “Becoming Roosi” (Margit Lillak, Estonia, 2025), “Cabin Pressure” (Eszter Nagy, Hungary, 2024).

When the media becomes a fake news factory is a media-focused dossier on manipulation and misinformation: “#SaveSorina” (Marian Voicu, Romania, 2025) and “Gas Station Report” (Zora Čápová, Czech Republic, 2024).

On Both Sides of the Bloody Frontline brings together four films exploring war beyond the front lines – where walls collapse and the human heart becomes the last battlefield: “Happiness for All”, “Mr. Nobody vs. Putin” (David Borenstein, Denmark, 2024), “The Living” (Anca Hirte, Romania, 2025), “Ceasefire” (Jacob Krese, Germany, 2025), “The Orchards” (Antoine Chaplin, France, 2025).

Through the theme Dictatorships. A survival guide for their upcoming return, films like “Fiume o morte!” (Igor Bezinović, Croatia, 2025) and “Bright Future” (Andra MacMasters, Romania, 2024) invite us to look back at totalitarian regimes that not long ago dominated the very spaces we inhabit today.

Neo-fascism online and offline. Our lives online explores the dark side of the digital world — where social networks become fertile ground for hatred, manipulation, and extremism. From covertly funded neo-fascist propaganda to real-life tragedies born of radicalization, the internet mirrors the violence of contemporary life: “Das Deutsche Volk” (Marcin Wierzchowski, Germany, 2025), “Undercover: Exposing the Far Right” (Havana Marking, UK, 2024), “Hacking Hate”(Simon Klose, Denmark, 2025), “Digital Apocalypse” (Dylan Reibling, Canada, 2025).

Woman / Mother – At what price? explores the role of women in today’s society: “9 – Month Contract” (Ketevan Vashagashvili, Georgia, 2025), “The Tale of the Turtle and the Flower” (Carolina Campo Lupo, Uruguay, 2025), “The Shadow Within Her” (Myrid Carten, Ireland, 2024).

Identity under the spotlight features stories of fragility and identity shifts: “Temporary Identity” (Roni Levin, Israel, 2025), “God’s Unknown Plan” (Moritz Mueller-Preisser, Germany, 2025).

#Occident – A critical gaze shows how Europe is viewed from the outside, through films like “The Great Whole”(Aminatou Echard, France, 2025) and “Cosmonauts Prefer Chewing Gum” (Aline Helmcke, Bulgaria, 2024).

Professions and the worlds around them looks beyond appearances at people and their trades: “Me, Myself, Never Bored” (Florian Karner, Germany, 2024), “Optimizing Everything” (Florian Karner, Germany, 2024), “The Mountain Doesn’t Move” (Petra Seliškar, France, 2025), “Heading West, to Zapata” (David Bim, Cuba, 2025).

Corporate greenwashing includes the investigative film “IKEA Loves Wood” (Tom Heinemann, Denmark, 2024).

Art as a tool for self-exploration and healing features two documentaries: “Miriam Răducanu. Rigor and Sense”(Alexandra Gulea, Romania, 2024) and “We Are Inside” (Farah Kassem, Lebanon, 2024).

Short forms of reality are represented by four impactful shorts: “Their Gazes” (Nicolae Gourault, France, 2025), “Fragments from the Life of the Place I Call Home” (Lazidis Andreas, Greece, 2024), “67 Milliseconds” (Fleury Fontaine, France, 2025), “A Move” (Elahe Esmaili, UK, 2024).

Through these categories, AFF Online offers access to the diversity of documentary cinema, turning the screen into a space of reflection, empathy, and connection.