SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH

Director:  OLHA ZHURBA

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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PRODUCTION FACTS

Original title: Пісні землі, що повільно горить / Pisni zemli, shcho povilno horyt’
International title: Songs of Slow Burning Earth
Country of Production: Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France
Release: Venice Int. Film Festival 2024
Running time: 95 min
Format: DCP
Language: Ukrainian, Russian
Subtitles: English, Italian
Production Companies: Moon Man in co-production with Final Cut for Real, We Have a Plan with Arte France and Film i Skåne

Director and writer: Olha Zhurba
Cinematographers: Volodymyr Usyk, Viacheslav Tsvetkov, Misha Lubarsky
Editor: Michael Aaglund
Music: Yaroslav Tatarchenko (buhnt)
Sound: Pavlo Melnyk
Producer: Darya Bassel (Moon Man / Ukraine)
Co-producers: Anne Köhncke (Final Cut for Real / Denmark), Kerstin Übelacker (We Have a Plan / Sweden)

Supported by

Danish Film Institute, IDFA Bertha Fund Classic and IDFA Bertha Fund Europe, Swedish Film Institute, Chicken & Egg Pictures, InMaat, the European Solidarity Fund for Ukrainian Films, the Prague Civil Society Center, SVT, International Media Support, DR, the Documenting Ukraine grant programme by IWM, and the Republic of Austria’s Federal Ministry of Arts, Culture, Civil Service and Sport.
With the support of the French Ministry for Europe & Foreign Affairs and the Goethe Institut.
With the support of Women Make Movies.
This film was a recipient of the Ukrainian Film Academy’s Post-Production Grant Programme in partnership with Netflix.
This documentary has been realised with the support of the IDFA Bertha Fund supported by Creative Europe MEDIA program.

This film is part of the Generation Ukraine collection, developed and supported by ARTE.
International promotional campaign support by the Ukrainian Institute and Eurimages.

Publicist (Ukrainian press)
Mariia Kravchenko
mm.postolatii@gmail.com
+ 38 063 63 15 145


Production Company (Denmark)
Final Cut for Real (Denmark)
Anne Köhncke
anne@final-cut.dk


Publicist (international press)
NOISE Film & TV
Mirjam Wiekenkamp
mirjam@noisefilmpr.com
+31 6 28652249

Production Company (Ukraine)
Moon Man
Darya Bassel
d.bassel@moonman.com.ua

World Sales
Filmotor
Michaela Čajkova
michaela@filmotor.com
+420 721 006 421


Festivals

Venice International Film Festival 2024 - World Premiere, Out of Competition