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Available until
Mar 02, 2032
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United States of America, Canada
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About the film
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 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.
Genre
War & Conflict
Runtime
1h 14m
Released
2020
Director
Iryna Tsilyk
Awards & recognition
Biografilm Festival 2020
Winner Hera Award Best Debut Film
Cinema Eye Honors Awards, US 2021
Winner Spotlight Award
Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival 2020
Winner DOCU/UKRAINE Best Film
Sundance Film Festival 2020
Winner Directing Award World Cinema - Documentary
Tallgrass International Film Festival 2020
Winner DOXX Spotlight
Ukrainian Film Academy Awards 2021
Winner Golden Dziga
What people are saying
‘The resilient family in The Earth Is Blue as an Orange likewise turn to film as a means of representation—and also catharsis...‘
Kathleen Sachs
Chicago Reader
‘A documentary in which the roles of filmmaker, viewer and subject are as inextricably fused as life and art.‘
Guy Lodge
Variety