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‘A House Made Of Splinters’ Beats Odds To Make Oscar Shortlist
11.01.2023 - 20:25 / deadline.com
Big outlets like HBO Documentary Films, Neon, and National Geographic dominate the Oscar documentary feature shortlist this year. But a few films without major backers managed to make it through, including one film with no American distributor at all – Simon Lereng Wilmont’s A House Made of Splinters.
“Unfortunately, we haven’t been able to secure U.S. distribution. So, we’ve made it this far all by ourselves,” says the Danish director with a laugh. “It’s kind of like déjà vu with my last film, The Distant Barking of Dogs, where it was exactly the same situation.”
Both his previous film and A House Made of Splinters unfold in Eastern Ukraine, a region where Russian-backed separatists and Ukrainian army forces engaged in fierce battle well before Russia’s full-scale invasion last February. The constant fighting from 2014 onward applied severe pressure on civilian populations, leading to an increase in unemployment, alcoholism and drug addiction. Many adults who floundered ended up neglecting their children; it is these kind of kids who occupy the frame in A House Made of Splinters.
“Every 10th door hides a broken family,” observes a social worker who works with children sent to live in a temporary orphanage — the “house” referred to in the film’s title. Wilmont filmed within its walls for over a year. The boys and girls sheltered there were removed from their parents by court order for their protection.
One boy tells fellow kids his dad beat him when he was drunk and once stabbed his mother.
“Was there a lot of blood?” the kids ask. “Yeah, a whole pool of blood.”
A girl tells one of the shelter’s adult caregivers wistfully, “I want [my mom] to stop drinking so we can start all over again.”
Three children — Eva, Sasha
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