Pisni Zemli, Shcho Povilno Horty‘

A crowd of people queue to catch a train out of Kiev. Bombs roar in the distance. A convoy of coffins moves through the landscape, while local residents kneel in silent respect at the side of the road. For two years, Ukrainian filmmaker Olha Zhurba documented the everyday drama of her country during the barbaric war.

PISNI ZEMLI, SHCHO POVILNO HORYT' is an oppressive panorama of life in Ukraine during the war of aggression by Russia. The impressions and images condense in their forcefulness into an elegy. But it also shows the mental change that occurs when war becomes part of everyday life. A testimony to the human ability to adapt to tragedy and imagine a better future.