RIGA IFF: Lēni degošās zemes dziesmas

Olha Žurba
Songs of the slow burning earth
Pisni zemli, shcho povilno horyt'
UA, DK, SE, FR
2024, 95', uk, ru
Recommended by Age 12 The last sunset and the only future is engulfed by a dark, impenetrable cloud. Hundreds of people in alarm near the train compartment, a mother with a newborn in a shelter, a grandmother with a grandchild on a bench, those leaving and those staying. High-rise buildings with broken windows, a car with the inscription "children" in red felt-tip pen, sadness pierced in the eyes of old men. Agonizing ignorance is replaced by chords of horror - as the days and months pass, they become the suffocating everyday life into which everyone is thrust without free will. Involuntarily, the new daily life makes you think about the future - is it hardly possible to think about tomorrow, when your feet cannot touch your land, which is on fire? Can anyone see through the flames? 2024. Ukrainian poet Maxim Dali Krivtsov, who fell on the battlefield on January 7, 33 years old at the time, wrote: "When they ask me what war is, I will answer without hesitation: it is words." Two and a half years since Russia's full-scale invasion of Ukraine, Ukrainian filmmakers continue to reflect, remind and call for help to the earth - as Zhurba, the director of the documentary shown at the Venice Film Festival - calls it, which is slowly burning. Designed as an audiovisual diary, it chronicles the memories, landscapes and places of the living. Memories that should not have been born, landscapes that should not have been seen, and places where Ukrainians should not have been. According to the author of the film, the film is “the backdrop of the (meta)physical landscape of collective catastrophe for a new generation of Ukrainians who are eager to imagine the future.”

Recommended age: 12+
Screen language: Ukrainian, Russian
Subtitle language: English
Synchronous translation: Latvian
Session duration: 95 min
Place for a wheelchair: yes

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