Songs of Slow Burning Earth - Discussion with Curators - Seattle Ukrainian Film Festival
October 3, 2026
Presented by Seattle Ukrainian Film Festival and Ukraine Defense Support. Reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime are interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalisation of war.
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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 metaphysical landscape of collective disaster.
A work that imposes silence over the noise of history and forces one to feel the war from within. With direct images and without explanations, it elegantly and ethically portrays the situation of people living in a country immersed in violence and uncertainty, making the viewer actively participate in the interpretation. It reminds us that the normalization of horror does not exempt from responsibility: it is an act of poetic memory and resistance. A testimony that stays in the retina long after the screen has gone dark.
- Director: Olha Zhurba
- Country: Ukraine, Denmark, Sweden, France
- Year: 2024
- Running Time: 95 min.
- Language: Ukranian, Russian with English Subtitles
- Has Subtitles: Yes