Andreea Borțun
Andreea Borțun is a Romanian writer/director. She is a film graduate of UNATC Bucharest and has studied philosophy at BARD College Berlin and Bucharest University. Andreea’s directorial debut, the short film “Blue Spring”, was selected in 2015 for the official competition of the 40th Toronto International Film Festival and her second short, “Love Locker”, won the Berlinale Talents & Canon Short Prize Award as well as the France 3 Award (Paris Courts Devant). She is the co-founder of Pustnik, an international screenwriters residency that takes place every year in Romania. She had her debut in theatre with a show directed by Neil LaBute and her first full-length play was part of Edinburgh Fringe Festival 2015.
Her first feature film “A River’s Gaze” was released on July 2026.
About her experience in LIM
A River’s Gaze
LIM | Less is More 2019
Lavinia, a single mother, is trying to make a better living for her and her son, in a poor Romanian village. On her own terms. She’s impulsive, she miscalculates, she doesn’t know very well how to love. Dani, her 13 years old son however needs his mother more than ever during this period of his life, at the threshold between childhood and adolescence. In the course of the four seasons, Dani and Lavinia’s relationship is put to the test.
