In her feature-length debut The Earth is Blue as an Orange, Ukrainian filmmaker and poet Iryna Tsilyk follows the lives of a family in the Donbas region of eastern Ukraine. Having lived under armed conflict for five years, single mother Anna and her four children have become accustomed to the violence, uncertainty and strangeness of life in a war zone where bombings and military tanks have a familiar presence in daily life. When Anna’s daughter Myroslava brings her passion for cinema into their home, the family embark upon a creative project together, recording their lives and reflecting upon their experiences to create a film of their own. Under Tsilyk’s gentle gaze, fact and fiction dovetail and merge to form both an intimate portrait and powerful testimony to the power of art as a means to heal.