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SYNOPSIS

What is the end of the world for one person is another ordinary Tuesday for someone else. Film director, poet, soldier’s wife and mother of a teenager, Iryna Tsilyk captures a typical day in Kyiv amid wartime.

A film about resistance and the beautiful, strong people in the dark times. 

CONTACT

AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR DEVELOPMENT: 43 800 €

Date of the decision : December 11th 2023

AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR PRODUCTION: 150 000 €

Date of the decision : January 27th, 2025

THE DIRECTOR

Iryna is a Ukrainian filmmaker, writer and screenwriter. Her feature-length documentary film, The Earth Is Blue As an Orange, won the Directing Award: World Cinema Documentary at Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as numerous other awards. The film was officially selected for the Berlinale film festival (Generation 14+), IDFA “Best of Fest”, MoMA Doc Fortnight, CPH:DOX, Hot Docs and more than 100 other International film festivals. Moreover, Tsilyk is known for a fiction full-length film Rock. Paper. Grenade that premiered at Warsaw IFF in 2022 and recently got the CGS AWARD (Social-cultural Cineclubs for Young People) – Percors Creativi 2023 of the GIFFONI film festival. Tsilyk is the author of 8 books published in Ukraine (poetry, prose, children books). She is the laureate of Shevchenko National Prize (2023), which is the highest state prize of Ukraine for works of culture and arts awarded since 1961.