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Film Screening: Art in Times of War

Program in Translation and Intercultural Communication, Iryna Tsilyk, filmmaker; Hanna Leliv, translator

September 14, 2023 · 4:30 pm6:00 pm · Room 219, 185 Nassau Street

Program in Translation and Intercultural Communications, Lewis Center for the Arts, Princeton Ukrainian Society, Contemporary European Politics and Society, Liechtenstein Institute on Self-Determination, Humanities Council
Join Ukrainian filmmaker Iryna Tsilyk and Princeton University translator in residence Hanna Leliv for a screening of “The Earth is Blue as an Orange,” winner of the directing award at 2020 Sundance Film Festival.
On the following day, Friday, September 15, they will present a public talk to discuss art and artists in wartime. More information here.

IRYNA TSILYK is a Ukrainian filmmaker and writer, based in Kyiv. She is the director of the award-winning documentary film “The Earth Is Blue As an Orange” which won the “Directing Award” at the Sundance Film Festival 2020, as well as numerous other honors. Tsilyk is also known for her fiction film Rock. Paper. Grenade based on the novel Who Are You? by Ukrainian writer, and Iryna’s husband, Artem Chekh.

HANNA LELIV is a native of Lviv, Ukraine, where she works as a freelance translator and runs literary translation workshops at Ukrainian Catholic University. She was a Fulbright fellow at the University of Iowa’s Literary Translation Workshop and mentee at the Emerging Translators Mentorship Program run by the UK National Center for Writing. Her translations of contemporary Ukrainian literature into English have appeared in Asymptote, BOMB, Washington Square Review, Circumference, and elsewhere.

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