“Songs of slow burning earth” at the 81st Venice Film Festival

The documentary film by Olha Zhurba, supported by ESFUF in December, will premiere at the 81st Venice Film Festival, Out of Competition.

“Songs of slow burning earth” is a diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of total war, captured over the course of two years, at different distances of the front line.

The production companies Moon Man (Ukraine) and Final Cut For Real (Denmark) applied for ESFUF finalisation support in the fall of 2023: in December, the project was supported under its working title “Displaced”. The film is Olha Zhurba’s second feature, after her 2022 documentary “Outside”, which premiered at CPH:DOX and HOT DOCS, and was co-produced between Ukraine, Denmark, France and Sweden.