HUMAN RIGHTS DOX
The Earth is Blue as an Orange
Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин
Directors
Iryna Tsilyk
Producers
Anna Kapustina
Giedrė Žickytė
Cinematographers
Viacheslav Tsvetkov
Editors
Iryna Tsilyk
Ivan Bannikov
Sound
Jonas Maksvytis
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2020
Ukraine, Lithuania
14 min
Color
Single mother Anna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine. While the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, the family is managing to keep their home as a safe haven, full of life and full of light. Every member of the family has a passion for cinema, motivating them to shoot a film inspired by their own life during a time of war. The creative process raises the question of what kind of power the magical world of cinema could have during times of disaster. How to picture war through fiction? For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
Director
Iryna Tsilyk (born in 1982 in Kyiv) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer and is the author and director of several short fiction and documentary films. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange is her debut feature-length documentary. Moreover, Tsilyk is the author of eight books published in Ukraine (which include poetry, prose, and children’s books).
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