Competition German Premieres - Audience Award
2024
Language: Ukrainian
Subtitles: English
Ukraine
Documentary
01:35:00
Landscapes, occasional conversations and encounters, and sounds that weave in and out of the frame compose SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH. Captured in varying proximities to the frontline over two years, this diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of total war traces the subtle changes in Ukrainian society. Ragged chords of panic and horror of the first weeks of the Russian invasion slowly morph into numb stillness of the acceptance of death and destruction, becoming tragic normality for the local population, but just an afterthought for the rest of the world. Against the backdrop of the (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukraine aspires to imagine the future.
Trigger Warning: War