Festival Songs of Slow Burning Earth Kyiv 2025-10-18 16:40:00

"Country: Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France
Year: 2024
Language: Danish, English, Arabic
Running time: 95 min.
Genre: Documentary
Director: Olha Zhurba (Outside, Dad’s Sneakers)
— Main Prize of DOCU/UKRAINE Competition, Docudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival, 2025
— Best Feature, Riga International Film Festival, 2024
— Official Selection, International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam, 2024
— Official Selection, Venice International Film Festival, 2024
Synopsis: 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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