'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.

Click here to read more about the Venice Film Festival 2024.

‘OUTSIDE’ AND 'A HOUSE MADE OF SPLINTERS' AT CPH:DOX

Final Cut for Real is proud to have two films at this year’s CPH:DOX - two films with a very special connection. ‘OUTSIDE’ by Olha Zhurba is nominated for the DOX:AWARD and has its world premiere at CPH:DOX. ‘A House Made of Splinters’ by Simon Lereng Wilmont won Best Director at Sundance and for best Nordic Dox at Göteborg Film Festival, and is selected for HIGHLIGHTS.

‘OUTSIDE’ is produced by Darya Bassel and Viktoriia Khomenko from Moon Man, Ukraine, in co-production with Final Cut for Real and Tangerine Films (NL), while ‘A House Made of Splinters’ is produced by Monica Hellström at Final Cut for Real, in co-production with Moon Man, Story (SE) and Donkey Hotel (FI). Both films are stories from Ukraine about vulnerable children and youth. ‘A House Made of Splinters’ follows three children at a temporary shelter, as war-torn Ukraine leaves devastating and enduring marks on the population. ’OUTSIDE’ follows Roma, a 13-year-old street boy neglected by his family and the state from his days as a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014, through 7 years in the streets of Kyiv until he is a young man. Both films are also supported by the Ukrainian State Film Agency, Danish Film Institute and International Media Support (in addition to funders that are not involved in both films, please see each film’s page for further info).

The screening times for ‘Outside’ are as follows:

• March 25th, 19:45 – Empire Cinema

• March 31st, 18:15 – Cinemateket Carl

• April 2nd, 12:00. – Nordisk Film Dagmar

Read more and buy tickets for ‘Outside’ by clicking here.

The screening times for ‘A House Made of Splinters’ are as follows:

• March 4th, 19:00 – The Grand Theatre

• March 24th, 21:30 – The Grand Theatre

• March 29th, 17:15 – Empire Cinema

• March 30th, 19:30 – Politikens Hus

• April 2nd, 19:15 – The Grand Theatre

Read more and buy tickets for ‘A House Made of Splinters’ by clicking here.

Press: Freddy Neumann, neumann@mail.dk