Between surealism and reality
2020 Berlinale Generation presents the Ukrainian documentary “The earth is blue as an orange” which already won the documentary directing award at this years Sundance film festival. In a loving way the film follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives on the Ukrainian/Russian boarder trough their own film project. Director Iryna Tsilyk manages to draw a deeply touching portray of a family trying to bring normality and hope into a life marked by war. The outstanding camera work creates pictures that are able to transport a feeling of surrealistic normality in circumstances who are terrifying real. With her first documentary feature film Iryna Tsilyk reminds us that although the media presence is decreasing the war between Ukraine and Russia is still going ...