PISNI ZEMLI SHSCHO POVOLNO HORYT

Ukraine, France, Denmark, Sweden

Documentary

An audiovisual diary of Ukraine’s immersion into the abyss of the first two years of Russia's full-scale 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 (meta)physical landscape of collective disaster, a new generation of Ukrainians aspires to imagine the future.

Written & directed by: Olha Zhurba
Produced by: Darya Bassel, Anne Köhncke, Kerstin Übelacker
Cinematography: Volodymyr Usyk, Viacheslav Tsvetkov, Misha Lubarsky
Editing: Michael Aaglund
Original Score: Yaroslav Tatarchenko (buhnt)
Sound: Pavlo Melnyk

Statement of the director:

“When they ask me
what war is
I’ll answer without hesitation:
it’s names.”

‘A thread of sky’ from the book Poems from the Loophole by Maksym ‘Dali’ Kryvtsov, a Ukrainian poet and soldier, who was killed on a battlefield on 7 January 2024. He was 33 years old.

Production:
Moon Man
https://moonman.com.ua/

World Sales:
Filmotor
https://www.filmotor.com/