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Blue Banks

DIRECTOR: Andreea Bortun
130 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 2024

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 Sud (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 130 minutes
Colour