Songs of Slow Burning Earth

Production year: 2024
Country: Ukraine
Director: Olha Zhurba
Producers: Darya Bassel, Moon Man
Co-Producers: Anne Köhncke (Final Cut for Real), Kerstin Übelacker (We Have a Plan)

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.