Simply Divine

(Romania/2025/14′)

In 1939, Anna Florea met the young soldier Jean Mihail in her home village in Bukovina and fell in love. Too soon, however, Jean was ordered to the front lines: although his passionate letters kept their bond alive, when Anna had to flee, contact was severed. Anna Florea herself tells the story today, at the age of 91, supported by the digitized images of 5,000 previously unpublished ambrotypes dating back to the 1930s, 1940s, and 1950s.

Mélody Boulissière Director
Bogdan Stamatin Director

Mélody Boulissière, Bogdan Stamatin

Mélody grew up in the Parisian suburbs, she is a graduate of ENSAD (Paris) and La Poudrière (Valence). Her end-of-study film, Ailleurs, inspired by her travel experience, was selected for the Cinéfondation of the Cannes Festival in 2016. In 2018, she directed Étourdis étourneaux, a short film adapted from a poem, for the collection “En sortant de l’école”, broadcast by France Télévisions.

Bogdan Stamatin grew up in Romania, and since 2015, he has lived and worked between France and Romania. He directed his first fiction film in 2018: Une Semaine maximum deux, featuring a Romanian who returns to the country after a failed expatriation to France. The film was screened at various international festivals. Since 2014, Bogdan has led the annual organization of the Câmpulung Film Fest, an international film festival that he chose to bring to Câmpulung Moldovenesc, his hometown.