Rodica (40) and her children, Maria (14) and Patrick (18), are Romanian expats living in Belgium. Their lives center on finding each other’s coordinates in order to live a balanced family life. Through a gentle, minimalist approach, the camera is nearby the protagonists, when they are alone, when they are together, focusing on their attempts to communicate with each other, on their silences, on the weight of their bodies. Blue is a film about love, fear, anxiety, and the emotions that emerge at their intersection.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 21 min.
- Country, year
- Romania, 2024
- Genre
- Documentary
- Language
- Romanian
- Subtitles
- Lithuanian, English
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Ana Vijdea
- Screenplay
- Ana Vijdea
- Producers
- Elena Martin
Director
Ana Vijdea
Ana Vijdea was born and raised in Buzău, Romania. She recently graduated from DocNomads, an itinerant master’s program in documentary film directing. Prior to that, she earned an MFA in Film from Syracuse University in New York, where she studied under the auspices of the Fulbright program, and a BA in Cinematography and Media from Babes-Bolyai University in Cluj-Napoca, Romania. Throughout her studies, she created several films and a VR project that were screened and awarded at international film festivals such as IDFA, True/False, and Visions du Réel, among others. In 2017, she was named one of the “25 New Faces of Independent Cinema'' by Filmmaker Magazine. Her most recent film, May the Earth Become the Sky (2022), received the Best Film award at Doclisboa, was nominated for the Silver Eye Award at Jihlava IFF East Silver, and was one of the short film nominees for the Doc Alliance Award. It was also screened at more than 20 film festivals, and it was acquired by several VoD platforms.
