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Men stop by the roadside to discuss practical matters – where the roads are still passable and whether they have enough fuel to go on. In a yard nearby, children play, using sticks as weapons, pretending to shoot one another. As the convoy moves forward, people kneel on the asphalt – after all, soldiers have given their lives for them. War is never one-dimensional. It is both unrelenting death and the necessity to keep on living. Songs of Slow Burning Earth presents fragments of Ukraine in all its complexity. Suffering. Hopeful. Dead. Alive.
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“Whether we like it or not, we have become numb to news of the war in Ukraine. More footage of the war is unlikely to reveal anything we don't already know. Director Olha Zhurba’s film explores the normalisation of war – how the unthinkable becomes everyday reality, yet life goes on. The war permeates the land, infiltrates our games, and reshapes the way we interact with one another. This is not something you want to see – and that is exactly why you should see it.” (Programme curator Vladas Rožėnas)
Credentials
- DirectingOlha Zhurba
- The scriptOlha Zhurba
- AssemblyMichael Aaglund
- CameraVolodymyr Usyk, Viacheslav Tsvietkov, Misha Lubarsky
- MusicYaroslav Tatarchenko
- DialoguesUkrainian, Russian
- SubtitlesLithuanian, English
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