Hi there, I'm Taylor Nicole Rogers. Normally, I'm the FTs, U.S. Labor and Equality Correspondent,

but this week I'm hosting the show for Lila. And I recently watched this film. It's a documentary,

and it's called The Earth is Blue as an Orange. It was shot in 2017 in an area of eastern Ukraine where fighting has been going on.

But really, it's more of a family portrait. There's a mom and four children, and they make an

amateur film about what it is like to live in a war zone. That's kind of the whole plot.

The film starts with the scene in which everyone in the household is going about their business. Miro Slava, the eldest daughter, is unscrowing a light bulb

from a plastic bucket, which she is making into a movie light. She lines the bucket with aluminum foil while a kitten meows in the background.

Nostia, the second oldest, helps Miro Slava to tape up a piece of black cloth for the background.

One by one, the family members sit down on a stool to talk on camera about what war means to them.

But then, an impossibly loud noise erupts.

But then, an impossibly loud noise erupts.

A shell has hit the neighboring house, and now the family's huddled in blankets on the floor of a windowless room. What role does art play during war?

It's something filmmaker Arina Tillick has been pondering ever since she started making this documentary.

I met a very special family and of course it was really inspiring for me as a film director to spend some time together

with them because in fact this film is not about the war itself the war is only the background

and I was trying to understand what does it mean to live in the war zone for so many years. And I was inspired by

these people who were actually not only the victims of this war, but they tried to do something to tell stories about themselves

to other people in the world. And that was also one of the answers for my question too. Does

Art have at least some power in war times? Irina's film is about people who have been living inside a war between Ukraine and Russia for years now.

But until last month, she did not think she would be one of those people.

I had such a huge empathy to my characters, but I've never expected that this work would come to

my city to. Last few weeks have changed everything. Ukraine is in fire now, and I still can't believe

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