bluish

Austria | 2024 | 83 min

Language: German

Subtitles: English (partially)

Suitable for all age groups

Director(s): Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky

Script: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky, Tizza Covi

Cast: Leonie Bramberger, Natasha Goncharova, Fränzi Madörin, Muda Mathis, Sue Zwick, Laura Stampfer, Enzu Rupp, Lea Rupp, Vadim Kostrov, Dorit Margreiter, İklim Doğan

Production: Panama Film

Distribution: Square Eyes

Drama

Female Director On Art Softies Queer Matter of Mind

Screenings:

Errol and Sasha, two somewhat disoriented art school students in their twenties, are each aimlessly drifting through a city's gloomy winter days. They hardly interact with others, and they speak less than in an Aki Kaurismäki movie. Whilst casting a soft gaze on fragments of their everyday lives, people, stories, places and realities start to overlap and intertwine. Many small moments, dull or expected, form a sequence of no events.

In bluish (2024) Lilith Kraxner and Milena Czernovsky are on their own wavelength, admiring how the subtleties of life make lasting impressions through attentive and matter-of-fact gestures. We visit public swimming pools and virtual worlds and listen to a sleeping audio guidance with eyes wide open in the dark for five minutes.

bluish describes a fragile state of being, an atmosphere of ambiguity and longing in all shades of blue.

Joonas Parviainen