'SONGS OF SLOW BURNING EARTH WORLD PREMIERING AT VENICE FILM FESTIVAL

We are immensely proud that Olha Zhurba’s profoundly strong and moving documentary film Songs of Slow Burning Earth will have its World Premiere at this year’s Venice Int. Film Festival.

The film is a series of reflective observations of Ukraine in wartime, interwoven with eye-witness accounts to contemplate the ultimate tragedy: the normalisation of war.

‘Songs of Slow Burning Earth’ is produced by Darya Bassel for the Ukrainian production company Moon Man, and is co-produced by Anne Köhncke for Final Cut for Real and Kerstin Übelacker for We Have A Plan.

This is the second film we are coproducing with Olha following Outside from 2022, and in Songs of Slow Burning Earth is continuing her beautiul collaboration with editor Michael Aaglund and editing consultant Niels Pagh Andersen.

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'RAISING A SCHOOL SHOOTER' & 'FLEE' NOMINATED FOR BEST NORDIC DOCUMENTARY AT NORDISK PANORAMA

Raising and School Shooter by Frida & Lasse Barkfors and Flee, by Jonas Poher Rasmussen are among the 14 Nordic films selected to compete for the Best Nordic Documentary Award at Nordisk Panorama 2021. The festival takes place 16. - 21. September in Malmö, Sweden, and is a major event for the Nordic documentary industry.

Flee was selected for Cannes 2020, and premiered at Sundance in January 2021, where it won the Grand Jury Prize, and has since then won several awards.

Raising and School Shooter premiered at CPH:DOX in April 2021, and is the third film in Frida & Lasse Barkfors’ trilogy on social stigma, following “Pervert Park” and “Death of a Child”.

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