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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

How much power can art have in wartime?

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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.

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Released
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Language
Russian
  • social issues
  • human interest

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Behind the camera

Director

Iryna Tsilyk

Produced in

Lithuania, Ukraine

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Release dates

  • United StatesUS

    • PremiereSundance Film Festival23 Jan 2020
    • PremiereMoMA Documentary Fortnight9 Feb 2020
    • Theatrical (limited)22 Apr 2022
  • United KingdomGB

    • Theatrical20 Jul 2021
  • CzechiaCZ

    • PremiereOne World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival7 Mar 2020
  • FranceFR

    • Theatrical8 Jun 2022
  • GermanyDE

    • PremiereBerlin International Film Festival21 Feb 2020
  • RussiaRU

    • PremiereArt Doc Fest4 Dec 2020
  • SwedenSE

    • Digital / OTTSVTPlay6 Mar 2020
  • UkraineUA

    • PremiereDocudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival24 Apr 2020
    • Theatrical26 Nov 2020

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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange was released on 26 November 2020.

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    CinemaSerf

    9/3/2024

    7/10

    This is one of these true-life fly on the wall documentaries that really does hit home. It centres around the mother of four "Anna" who is trying to bring up her children with some semblance of normality amidst the ongoing troubles in the Donbass area of the Ukraine. With the bombs dropping and the bullets never far away, the family decide to make a film depicting their day to day struggles and their day to day joys …

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