Songs of Slow Burning Earth

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

Immerse yourself in one of the most complete documentaries on the war in Ukraine. Filmed over two years, this audiovisual diary reveals the heartbreaking tragedies without being too gruesome: how panic, outrage and horror of the first weeks of the Russian invasion slowly turn into the numbing silence of acceptance of death and destruction. A gripping account of a war that becomes a tragic normality for the locals, but seems to be only an afterthought for the rest of the world.

War is not just a matter of advancing armies, dying soldiers, grotesque enemy imagery and bombing ravages. With time, war literally permeates everything and everyone. Landscapes, occasional conversations, encounters, testimonies and reflections, images and sounds floating in and out of the camera's frame, show how the ongoing war causes changes - sometimes subtle ones - in every aspect of daily life, in every man, woman and child. Filmed over two years, sometimes closer to, sometimes further from the front line, this documentary reveals the ultimate tragedy: the normalisation and daily reality of war.

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