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The Harriman Institute is pleased to cosponsor First Look 2025, the Museum of the Moving Image’s acclaimed festival of innovative new international cinema. Please join us for the east coast premiere of Olha Zhurba’s film “Songs of Slow Burning Earth” (Ukraine/France/Sweden/Denmark, 2024).
Filmed over two years in Ukraine, Zhurba’s epic depiction of her society under siege by Russia moves ineluctably from one grandly scaled, finely detailed scene of calamity to another, each designated by its degree of proximity to the front. From Kyiv’s central train station (31 KM), captured amid the confusion of the invasion’s initial days, to a state school in Ternopil (906 KM), where children are instructed to dream a better future, to the ruins of the village of Pravdyne in the Kherson (28 KM), where ashen-faced men exhume common graves, Songs of Slow Burning Earth begins as a somber survey of the wreckage of war before becoming a fortifying record of communal resilience.
In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles.
Tickets: $17.50 / $12 senior and students / $10 youth (ages 3–17) / discounted for MoMI members ($7–$11). Order tickets. There is a $1.50 transaction fee per ticket for all online purchases. The cost of admission may be applied toward a same-day purchase of a membership.
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