The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

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Play Time: 74 mins
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The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

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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.

Original Title:Земля блакитна, ніби апельсин
Status: Released (2020-11-26)
Awards:19 wins & 17 nominations
Screen:Iryna Tsilyk
Productions: Moonmakers, Albatros Communicos
Production Countries: Lithuania, Ukraine
Spoken Languages: Pусский, Український
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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 d ....

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