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Dominican Rep. The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
- Original title
- The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
- Year
- 2020
- Running time
- 74 min.
- Country
Ukraine- Director
- Screenwriter
- Cast
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Documentary, Self: Ganna Gladka, Stanislav Gladky, Anastasiia Trofymchuk, Myroslava Trofymchuk, Vladyslav Trofymchuk
- Cinematography
- Producer
- Co-production Ukraine-Lithuania;
- Genre
- Documentary | Family Relationships. Poverty. Russia-Ukraine conflict
- Synopsis
- Exquisitely shot and bold in its metastorytelling approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives under siege in Ukraine.
Eldest daughter Mira dreams of becoming a cinematographer. As bombs descend on neighboring homes, the family construct, act in, and edit stylized scenes of dangerous predicaments they’ve lived to tell. Mira’s re-creations ratchet up the drama, using local soldiers, tanks, and even her own grandmother to tell terrifying tales of survival. Meanwhile, Iryna quietly captures their more quotidian moments during their shoots and in between takes—scenes that include Mira’s siblings squabbling over line readings, cozy dinners by the fire, and Anna’s compassionate gaze as she watches Mira apply to film school.
Eventually, the two projects fuse into a single vision that gorgeously encapsulates the extremes of war, both its explosive trauma and its mundane peripheral existence in everyday life.
- Awards
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2020: Sundance Film Festival: World Cinema Directing Award (Documentary)
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