Filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont travels to Ukraine to document youngsters pulled from their families and awaiting their fate.
Russia’s invasion of Ukraine on Feb. 24, 2022, brought intense global focus on the Eastern European nation, along with multiple film crews to report on the ongoing war.
Lereng Wilmont continues to explore that theme. He returned to Ukraine in 2019 and ’20 to shoot “A House Made of Splinters,” which again tracks the experiences of strife-riddled youth, this time inside the Lysychansk Center in eastern Ukraine, a shelter for kids whose parents have been deemed unsuitable to care for them.
Most of the scenes revolve around four of the children: Eva, who departs early on when her grandmother is able to take her in; Alina and Sasha, who bond as best friends; and an older boy, Kolya — still baby-faced but already striving toward a rogue destiny, sneaking cigarettes and scrawling Magic Marker tattoos on his arm.“It helps a lot that I do my own cinematography and my own sound,” Lereng Wilmont said.
The stories the children tell to each other are sometimes hair-raising accounts of drunken parents or domestic violence. Yet, despite their bleak backgrounds, they display remarkable resilience.
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