The Earth is Blue as an Orange: We Stand With Ukraine film screening & panel discussion

Join us for a special screening of The Earth is Blue as an Orange followed by a panel discussion. Exquisitely shot and bold in its approach, director Iryna Tsilyk’s documentary follows single mother Anna and her four children as they document their lives under siege in Donbas, Ukraine.

Questioning the power of cinema and the magical world it helps create during times of disaster, this exceptional documentary, winner of the World Cinema Documentary Award in Sundance, observes, with miraculous insight, a family—and a filmmaker—cope with war using their cameras, working in tandem to create meaning out of a meaningless conflict as the ultimate way to stay human.

Followed by a panel discussion with Olenka Z. Pevny, Associate Professor of Pre-Modern Slavonic and Ukrainian Studies (University of Cambridge), Maria Montague, Deputy Director of the Ukrainian Institute London, Dr Rasmus Nilsson (School of Slavonic and East European Studies, University College London) and other guests tba.

The public will be able to make voluntary contributions to grassroots organisations providing humanitarian aid in Ukraine – with a focus on medical provision and refugee support.

This screening is organised in partnership with the Embassy of the Republic of Lithuania to the UK, Institut Francais, EUNIC LONDON, the People’s Film Club, Cambridge Ukrainian Studies, and Migration Collective.