bluish

A feature film by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky
AT, 82 min, 16mm

Errol and Sasha, two somewhat disoriented characters in their twenties, are each aimlessly drifting through a city's gloomy winter days. Whilst casting a soft gaze on fragments of their everyday lives, people, stories, places and realities start to overlap and intertwine. Bluish describes a fragile state of being, a condition or rather an atmosphere of ambiguity and longing.

This film is a green production.

SALES/DISTRIBUTION

World Sales: Square Eyes
Distributor AT: Filmgarten

FUNDERS/TV

ÖFI+, BMKOES, Filmfonds Wien, ORF Film/Fernseh-Abkommen, CineArt Steiermark

FESTIVALS

FID Marseille 2024 - International Competition

Viennale - Offical Selection

Actoral Festival - Offical Selection

Bucharest International Experimental Festival - International

Feature Competition

New York Film Festival - Currents

Black Canvas Festival de Cine Contemporáneo - New Horizons

Competition

Festival du Nouveau Cinéma - Youth Feature Competition

SEMINCI - Valladolid International Film Festival - Alchemies

Official Selection Competition

AWARDS

FID Marseille 2024
Grand Prix of the International Competition

Bucharest International Experimental Film Festival 2024
BIEFF Award for Best Feature

Mia Market Rome 2023
Screen International Award

ON INSTAGRAM

@bluish.film

CREDITS

With Leonie Bramberger and Natasha Goncharova

Directors, Script & Editors: Lilith Kraxner, Milena Czernovsky
Cinematography: Antonia de la Luz Kašik
Assistant Director & Creative Consultant: Lara Bellon
Sound & Music: Benedikt Palier
Production Manager: Flora Mair
Unit Manager: Saskia Arth
Dramaturgic Consultant: Tizza Covi Script Consultant & Set Manager: Mel Berger Camera Assistant: Paula Tschira
Art Depatement: Hanga Balla, Pauline Stephan
Additional Sound: Chuqi Lu
Sound Assistant: Nora Czamler, Moritz Nahold
Sound Mixing: Nora Czamler
Color Grading: Alessandro Pelliccia Technical Assistant & Outside Eye: Hannes Böck Second Assistant Director: Sarah Hichri Graphic Design & Typography: David Einwaller Intern: Jonas Schwaiger

Producers: Lixi Frank, David Bohun Junior Producer: Camille Chanel

PRESS

«[...] the style and technique of evoking liminality, through which the film sticks to the insides of one’s brain, are undoubtedly effective [...] Kraxner and Czernovsky place viewers in a state of remembrance, where time isn’t linear and memories pop up through the fog [...] a meditative, experimental sophomore film that is more of a trance-like cinematic concept than anything else [...] » Olivia Popp, CINEUROPA

«[...] sublime pursuit of connection and longing within the ordinary [...] Kraxner and Czernovsky are on their own wavelength, admiring how the subtleties of life make lasting impressions through attentive and matter-of-fact gestures. [...] » Michael Granados, Film Fest Report

«[...] The camera might be static but there is almost always a feeling of movement. It generates the hopeful sensation that these women have a freedom to do what they want, no matter how constrictive the world might sometimes be. [...] Bluish feels like a Generation Z cousin of Millennial mumblecore, the script stripped away so that we divine these young people’s moods as much by gesture and look as talk [...] Bluish is less about plot development than the characters’ quotidian existence in the liminal space that exists between teenagedom and fully fledged adulthood [...] » Amber Wilkinson, Screendaily

«[...] a journey through melancholy urban landscapes and the restlessness of youth [...] » Chris Jones, Overly Honest Reviews

«[...] A Pale Blue Glance at the Dullness of Life [...] despite the suggestion of the title, the dull filters of blue are no more than a theoretical reference or a game between the two filmmakers, and that’s so nice to watch. For a film with a premise that could easily send you to the land of boredom, “bluish” is ultimately a far more complex voyage [...] » Sofia Topi, High on Films

bluish

A feature film by Lilith Kraxner & Milena CzernovskyAT, 82 min, 16mm

SALES/DISTRIBUTION

FUNDERS/TV

CREDITS

PRESS

A feature film by Lilith Kraxner & Milena Czernovsky
AT, 82 min, 16mm