The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange is a 2020 documentary film, directed and written by Iryna Tsilyk, who won the Directing Award in the "World Cinema Documentary” category for the film at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival.[1]

The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
Film poster
Directed byIryna Tsilyk
Written byIryna Tsilyk
Production
company
Albatros Communicos, Moonmakers
Release date
  • 24 January 2020 (2020-01-24) (Sundance Film Festival)
CountryUkraine
Lithuania

Synopsis

Single mother Hanna and her four children live in the front-line war zone of Donbas, Ukraine.[2] 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 Hanna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.[3]

Production

The film is produced by Anna Kapustina ("Albatros Communicos", Ukraine) and Giedrė Žickytė ("Moonmakers", Lithuania) with the support of Ukrainian State Film Agency, Lithuanian Film Centre, IDFA Bertha Fund (Netherlands).[4]

Release

It was selected for the official program of 2020 Berlin International Film Festival (Generation 14+), the 2020 International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam (Best of Fests), Documentary Selection by European Film Academy 2020, , 2020 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival, 2020 Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival, 2020 Thessaloniki Documentary Festival, 2020 Adelaide Film Festival[5][4] and more than 70 other International film festivals.

Characters
  • Myroslava Trofymchuk
  • Hanna Gladka
  • Stanislav Gladky
  • Anastasiia Trofymchuk
  • Vladyslav Trofymchuk

Reception

Guy Lodge, writing for Variety, wrote, "It’s an apt inversion for a documentary in which the roles of filmmaker, viewer and subject are as inextricably fused as life and art".[3] Amber Wilkinson of Screen International wrote, "Iryna Tsilyk offers an intimate and surprisingly playful family’s eye view of life in the Ukraine warzone in her debut feature documentary, which focuses on the Trofymchuk-Gladky clan".[6]

Awards and nominations
  • Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary of 2020 Sundance Film Festival, USA 2020
  • Best Cinematography award of 2020 International Documentary Association Awards, USA
  • European Film Academy Documentary Selection 2020
  • ZIFF Grand Award of Zinebi - Bilbao International Documentary and Short Film Festival, Spain 2020
  • Grand Prix of Millenium Docs Against Gravity film festival, Poland 2020
  • DOCU/World award of Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine 2020
  • DOCU/Ukraine award of Docudays UA International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival, Ukraine 2020
  • Award for Best Cinematography of Millenium Docs Against Gravity film festival, Poland 2020
  • Best Documentary Film of Ukrainian Film Critics Award "Kinokolo", Ukraine 2020
  • Best Debut (Premia Hera "Nuovi Talenti") of Biografilm Festival, Italy 2020
  • Best Human Rights Doc of Dokufest, Kosovo 2020
  • Best Documentary Film of Five Lakes Film Festival, Germany 2020
  • Jury's Prize for Best film of Al Este Festival de Cine Peru, 2020
  • Press Jury's prize for Best film of Al Este Festival de Cine Peru, 2020
  • DoXX Award of Tallgrass Film Festival, USA 2020
  • Bydgoszcz ART.DOC Award, Poland 2020
  • Special Mention in International competition of Underhill Fest, Montenegro 2020
  • Special Jury Mention of CineDOC Tbilisi, Georgia 2020
  • Special Mention in a Different Tomorrow category at Reykjavik International Film Festival, Iceland 2020
  • Special Mention of the Jury of Zurich Film Festival, Switzerland 2020
  • Human Rights Film Award - Special Mention of Verzio Film Festival, Hungary 2020
  • Special Mention of Minsk IFF Listapad, Belarus 2020

Reviews

References
  1. "the-earth-is-blue-as-an-orange". www.sundance.org. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  2. "Review: The Earth Is Blue as an Orange". Cineuropa - the best of european cinema. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  3. Lodge, Guy (19 February 2020). "'The Earth Is Blue as an Orange': Film Review". Variety. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  4. Erbland, Kate (15 January 2020). "'The Earth Is Blue as an Orange' Trailer: Sundance Doc Blends Wartime Trauma With Cinematic Healing". IndieWire. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
  5. "Final days of Adelaide Film Festival serves up more winners". InDaily. 20 October 2020. Retrieved 25 October 2020.
  6. Wilkinson2020-03-19T13:06:00+00:00, Amber. "'The Earth Is Blue As An Orange': CPH:DOX review". Screen. Retrieved 25 December 2020.
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