The earth is blue as an orange / Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин
(Ukraine, 74 Min, 2020)
Ukrainian language with english subtitles
Talk with the director will be in English

In The Earth Is Blue as an Orange, Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk portrays the everyday life of a family living close to the frontline in the Donbas region, before Russia’s full-scale invasion of Ukraine. The focus lies especially on the children, who grow up under the constant presence of war.

The teenage daughter Myroslava dreams of applying to film school and begins shooting her own film. As a result, the boundaries between documentary and self-directed fiction gradually blur: Are we watching Myroslava’s film or Tsilyk’s documentary? And what connects this family’s resilience and creativity with the famous surrealist line, “The earth is blue like an orange”?

Following the screening, there will be a discussion with director Iryna Tsilyk.

Iryna Tsilyk (born 1982 in Kyiv, Ukraine) studied at the Kyiv University of Theatre, Cinema and Television and now works as a director. She writes poetry, songs, and prose, and her work has been translated into German, Swedish, Czech, and Polish, among other languages. Tsilyk is the author and director of the acclaimed short films Blue Hour (2008), Commemoration (2012), Home (2016), and The Earth Is Blue as an Orange (2020). Her song lyrics have been nominated for the Ukrainian literary competition prize. In 2011, she received the Coronation of the Word award. She is married to the writer Artem Chekh and has a son.

Free entry.
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