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.
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...