Songs Of Slow Burning Earth

Songs Of Slow Burning Earth is an observational film that explores the phenomena of the Russian-Ukrainian war. It consists of stories that unveil the deep and far-reaching consequences left by the war on both individuals and society as a whole. 


Credits

Director
Olha Zhurba

Producer
Darya Bassel (Moon Man)

Co-producers
Kerstin Übelacker
Anne Köhncke (Final Cut for Real)

Cinematography
Viacheslav Tsvetkov
Volodymyr Usyk

Editing
Michael Aaglund


Awards

  • Best Feature Film, Riga International Film Festival, 2024

  • Doc Future Award, Verzió Film Festival, 2024

  • Best International Documentary, DOCVILLE International Documentary Film Festival 2025

Status

Distribution

Format

Documentary, 90/58 min

Financiers

International Media Support, Prague Civil Society Center, IDFA Bertha Fund, Chicken&Egg,
Arte France (commissioning editor Fabrice Puchault), DR, SVT, Film i Skåne, YLE, DFI & SFI.

Screenings

  • Venice Film Festival

  • CinEast – Central and Eastern European Film Festival

  • Lugano Human Rights Film Festival

  • International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam

  • Verzió International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

  • Ukrainian Film Days

  • Movies on War – International Film Festival on War and Peace

  • Tertio Millennio Film Fest

  • Northern Lights Film Festival

  • Rome Independent Documentary Film Festival

  • Black Movie – Geneva International Independent Film Festival

  • DocPoint Tallinn Documentary Film Festival

  • FIPADOC – International Documentary Festival

  • Big Sky Documentary Film Festival

  • Copenhagen International Documentary Film Festival

  • One World International Human Rights Documentary Film Festival

  • Vilnius International Film Festival

  • Filmfest Bremen

  • ZagrebDox – International Documentary Film Festival

  • DOCVILLE – International Documentary Film Festival

  • International Women's Film Festival (Festival International de Films de Femmes)

  • Hong Kong International Film Festival

  • Salem Film Fest

  • ACT Human Rights Film Festival

  • Kosmorama – Trondheim International Film Festival

  • Tempo Documentary Festival

  • Full Frame Documentary Film Festival

  • Docs Against Gravity Film Festival

  • DOK.fest München

  • Jean Rouch International Film Festival

  • DOXA Documentary Film Festival

  • Beldocs – Belgrade International Documentary Film Festival

  • Ethnocineca – International Documentary Film Festival Vienna

  • Festival La Rochelle Cinéma

  • Freiburger Film Forum – International Documentary Film Festival

  • First Look – Museum of the Moving Image's Festival of New and Innovative International Cinema

  • ImagineIndia International Film Festival

  • Documentarist – Istanbul Documentary Days