THE EARTH IS BLUE AS AN ORANGE (Ukraine/Lithuania, 2021)
Director: Iryna Tsilyk
Documentary | Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles | 73 minutes | Not Rated
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Krasnohorivka: a town on the front lines of the war-torn region of Eastern Ukraine. When poet/filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk first visits the Trofymchuk-Gladky family home, she is surprised by what she finds: while the outside world is made up of bombings and chaos, single mother Anna and her four children are 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, so it feels natural for 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 impact cinema might have during times of disaster, and how to picture war through the camera’s lens. For Anna and the children, transforming trauma into a work of art is the ultimate way to stay human.
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Winner of the Directing Award for World Cinema Documentary at the 2020 Sundance Film Festival, The Earth Is As Blue As An Orange stands not only as a remarkable document of the Russo-Ukrainian War through the lens - literally - of this family's creative process, but as an optimistic testament to the power of art and beauty in the face of destruction.

Throughout the month of September the National Hispanic Cultural Center becomes the home of the Free ¡Globalquerque! International Cinema Series, a part of ¡Globalquerque!

The 8th Annual ¡Globalquerque! International Cinema Series will cover films and shorts that embrace drama, politics, animation, documentary, comedy and magical realism. This year's films hail from Ukraine, India, Sweden, Cuba, France/Haiti, Argentina, Colombia, Estonia/USA and México.
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All films are free. Tickets can be picked up an hour before each screening. The films are screened in the Bank of America Theatre at the National Hispanic Cultural Center in Albuquerque. Start time is 7 PM unless otherwise noted below. The screenings take place on August 31, September, 7, 21, 24 and 28, 2022
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The International Cinema Series is presented in partnership with National Hispanic Cultural Center.
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