Songs of Slow Burning Earth

Close observation of Russia's invasion of Ukraine over 2 years. The horror of the first few weeks is slowly transformed into an immobility numbed by the acceptance of destruction, becoming a monstrous normality...
Film footage taken at different distances from the front line is interwoven with eyewitness accounts of the normalisation of war. Landscapes, conversations and occasional encounters make up this documentary, underpinned by a haunting and captivating soundtrack.

Against a backdrop of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to be able to imagine the future…

Filmotor / Tchéquie / Michaela Čajková / michaela@filmotor.com