The short film Equally Red and Blue<\/em> was
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Georgiana Moldoveanu graduated from the I.L.
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I grew up listening to stories on disc, and at
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Equally Red and Blue<\/em> is the story of Ana, who is celebrating a year
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I will tell in short a moment I lived
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Georgiana was completely taken by surprise by
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I didn’t expect that, and I was very happy, a
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The short film Equally Red and Blue<\/em>
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\nthe only Romanian film in competition at the Cannes Film Festival that reached
\nits 71st edition this year. The festival started on May 8 and came
\nto an end on May 19. Directed by Georgiana Moldoveanu and produced by the I.L.
\nCaragiale National University of Theatre and Film in Bucharest, the short film
\nwas selected for the Cin\u00e9fondation
\nsection of the Cannes Film Festival which is devoted exclusively to young
\ntalents. This year the organisers chose for this section 17 short films from
\nmore than 2,400 shorts received from all over the world. 14 countries from 4
\ncontinents were represented in this section of the Cannes festival and 12 of
\nthe 22 selected directors are women. <\/p>\n
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\nCaragiale National University of Theatre and Film and became known in Romania
\nthanks to her film Windows<\/em> that received an award at the CineMAiubit
\nfestival. We talked to director Georgiana Moldoveanu about her passion for
\nfilm, about how a story can be turned into a film and about her new short film
\npresented for the first time at the Cannes Festival: <\/p>\n
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\nthat age, when you don’t ask questions about what’s coming next, I very much
\nwanted to become a story teller, the person whom you don’t see but who guides
\nyou through the story. I still want to be a storyteller. And this is an
\nimportant aspect for a director when making a film. As to the short film Equally
\nRed and Blue<\/em> I could say that it is a story. It does contain clear clues
\nthat you are part of a story, and you can identify them from the very first
\nscenes. I wanted to make a movie that could be associated with a story, the
\ncharacters in my story are facing off and some of them could be labelled as
\nnegative. But towards the end of the film things change, the end is actually
\nopen. I believe that good triumphs over evil, and this positive ending also
\nhappens thanks to the audience’s contribution.<\/p>\n
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\nsince she has been in a relationship with Stefan. It is a different kind of
\nrelationship, another kind of anniversary, and another kind of present. Ana agrees
\nto be a surrogate mother for the baby that Stefan’s wife cannot carry. Much too
\nlate, Stefan realises that he in fact wants something else. It is a story
\ninspired from reality, which Georgiana wanted to put on film: <\/p>\n
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\nalongside a friend, a friend who tried for years to have a child, but nothing
\nworked. And so together I lived this amazing moment which for me got even more
\nintense as time went by. My friend had to get to the hospital that prepared her
\nfor her in vitro fertilisation. It was late at night, the streets were mostly
\nclear, and we stopped for a few seconds in an intersection, seconds that seemed
\nlike hours. We were close to the hospital, and even though my friend had been
\nthere many times, she could not find her way there. I don’t recall her saying
\nmuch back then, but I caught with the corner of my eye a look on her face that
\nI hadn’t until then. It was a look that gathered within itself everything that
\nshe felt. That is because it was time to have the procedure, and we just kept
\nlingering in the intersection, because we didn’t know the way.<\/p>\n
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\nthe selection at Cannes: <\/p>\n
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\nselection at the Cannes festival makes you very happy. But a director does not
\nmake a movie thinking of awards. It is less selfish than that, you think mostly
\nof the story you’re trying to tell, not live your days thinking of festivals.
\nWhat you want most is for your story to be the closest to what you wanted to
\nconvey to the viewer.<\/p>\n
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\nfeatures actors Miruna Blidariu, Bogdan Albulescu, Florentina Tilea and Mihaela
\nPopa, and is produced by Alexandra Morariu Buzoianu and Adrian Bulgariu. <\/p>\n