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Hi there, I'm Taylor Nicole Rogers. Normally, I'm the FT's US 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.

The eldest daughter is unscrewing a light bulb from a plastic bucket, which she is making into a movie light.

She winds the bucket with aluminum foil while I kitten the owls in the background.

Nastya, the second oldest, helps Nero 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.

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 Arena Teleg 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.

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