The Earth Is Blue as an Orange

On Wednesday March 16 2022, together with Spiazzi Cultural Association, TOCIA! Cuisine and community, and the Kinonauts, we’re holding a screening of the film “The Earth is Blue as an Orange” (74’, 2020) by the Ukrainian director Iryna Tsilyk (1982, Kyiv).

The film, winner of the World Cinema Documentary category at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, will be screened at Spiazzi (Calle del Pestrin 3865, Castello) at 6.30pm and at 9.30pm. In the interval between the two screenings, there will be a chance to taste a dish prepared by TOCIA! Cuisine and community.

The Italian film community, expressing full solidarity with Ukraine and Ukrainians, invites you to help the victims of the country's brutal aggression with a donation. The funds raised during the evening will be used to help the Ukrainian population. The director and the producer of the film invite you to support Ukraine by donating to UNHCR or the Italian Red Cross.

The film will be screened at Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (Calle del Pestrin, 3865, Castello).

First screening at 6:30pm. Second screening at 9:30pm.

Admission free, with a suggested donation of 15 euros, for both the screening and the food.

Given the limited number seats, reservations are recommended by sending an email to: infospiazzi@gmail.com.

Masks must be worn inside Associazione Culturale Spiazzi (properly covering both nose and mouth) and hands must be sanitized with the provided sanitizer upon entrance. Admission to the event will be permitted upon presentation of the Super Green Pass.

Iryna Tsilyk (born 1982 in Kiev) is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer. Her debut feature-length documentary "The Earth Is Blue as an Orange" encapsulates the extremes of war, both its explosive trauma and its banal peripheral existence in everyday life. With miraculous insight, the film observes a family coping with war using the camera, Anna and her children working in tandem to create meaning from a senseless conflict.