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. The film’s measured pace and hypnotic music, the meticulous 4:3 framings shot on 16mm and the minimal dialogue, turn the bodies and faces of the protagonists into emotional maps. Two years after the liberating Beatrix (12th AAGFF), the directorial duo again puts the female body front and centre, emancipated from any kind of dictates.

Lilith Kraxner (1995, Austria) lives and works in Vienna. After attending the Friedl Kubelka School for Independent Film, she is currently studying video and video installation at the Academy of Fine Arts Vienna. After several collaborations, the duo celebrated the premiere of their feature film debut BEATRIX in 2021 at FIDMarseille.

Milena Czernovsky (1993, Austria) has studied scenography at University of Applied Arts Vienna. Her works oscillate between stage and set design, installation and film. After several collaborations, the duo celebrated the premiere of their feature film debut BEATRIX in 2021 at FIDMarseille.