Songs of Slow Burning Earth

dir. Olha Zhurba/Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France/2024/95 min.

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia’s full invasion, made up of places, occasional characters, rare dialogues, intraframe sounds and silences which, when put together, capture the chronology of how the war became normalised. Against the backdrop of this (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.

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projection time:

95 min.
country/year:

Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France /2024
director:

Olha Zhurba
original language of the film:

Ukrainian
pictures:

Wołodymyr Usyk
editor:

Michael Aaglund
production:

Darya Bassel / Moon Man
festivals and awards:

2024 – Venice IFF, 2025 – One World Prague: Main Prize in International Competition

sections:

Political studies
competitions:

Amnesty International Poland Award Warsaw Documentary Award Award for Best Cinematography First Appearance Award
tags:

Ukraine awarded human rights war