Songs of Slow Burning Earth
dir. Olha Zhurba / 2024 / Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France / 95 min
AMNESTY INTERNATIONAL POLAND AWARD; FIRST APPEARANCE AWARD; Special Mention in the Competition for AWARD FOR BEST CINEMATOGRAPHY
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.
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.
- duration:
- 95 min
- country / year of production:
- Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France / 2024
- director:
- Olha Zhurba
- cinematography:
- Wołodymyr Usyk
- production:
- Darya Bassel / Moon Man
- selected festivals and awards:
- 2024 – Venice IFF, 2025 – One World Prague: Main Prize in International Competition
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