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Blue Banks
DIRECTOR: Andreea Bortun
107 minutes | Romania, France, SLOVENIA
Lavinia, a single mother, is trying to make a better living for her and her son, in a poor Romanian village. On her own terms. She’s impulsive, she miscalculates, she doesn’t know very well how to love. Dani, her 13 years old son however needs his mother more than ever during this period of his life, at the threshold between childhood and adolescence. In the course of the four seasons, Dani and Lavinia’s relationship is put to the test.
About
Production: Atelier de Film, Films de Force Majeure, Perfo d.o.o.
Release: Planned for 2025
Cast:
Mihaela Subțirică (Lavinia)
Stefan Costea (Dani)
Vasile Pavel (Marian)
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Support
Eurimages
Romania CNC Romania (dev. & prod.), Sebastian Stan (equity investor US), MEDIA Creative Europe, Romanian Cultural Administration Fund (TETA), DACIN SARA – Society of Romanian Audiovisual (Transilvania Pitch Stop Award), Goethe Institut,
France CNC (Cinémas du monde), Région Provence-Alpes-Côte d’Azur (dev. & prod.)
Slovenia Slovenian Film Fund
This project was selected at
TIFF – Transilvania International Film Festival (Cluj Napoca, Romania) – Transilvania Pitch Stop Award – Venice-Gap Financing Market 2022
Team
Cast
Mihaela Subțirică (Lavinia)
Stefan Costea (Dani)
Vasile Pavel (Marian)
Writer & Director Andreea Bortun
Script consultant Matthieu Taponier
Producers Gabi Suciu, Jean-Laurent Csinidis, Ales Pavlin
DoP Laurențiu Răducanu
Production manager (FR) Jérôme Nunes
Postproduction manager (FR) Nora Bertone
Editor Tudor D. Popescu
Technical sheet
Format HD
Sound 5.1, stéréo
Length 107 minutes
Colour