The tape “House of Rocks” tells about children from difficult families who ended up in a shelter near the front line.
Documentary “House of Rocks “ ( A House Made of Splinters ), which tells the story of children from difficult families who ended up in a shelter next to the war, was included in the shortlist of the European Film Academy. This was announced on the Facebook page of the European Film Academy.
The tape “House of Rocks”, shot in a co-production between Denmark, Sweden, Finland and Ukraine by the Danish director Simon Lereng Vilmont, along with 12 other documentaries, will compete for a nomination in its category. Five films from this shortlist are nominated for the award. It will happen on December 10 this year.
According to assistant director Azad Safarov, the film tells about Ukrainian children who find themselves in difficult life circumstances – all of them come from troubled families and live in a shelter near the front line. They spend 9 months in the shelter and either return to their parents or end up in a boarding school or a foster family.
In April, this film won the One World Human Rights Documentary Film Festival in Prague.
In 2018, director Simon Lereng Wilmont already received an award for a film about Ukraine. His documentary about a boy from Donbas, “The Distant Barking of Dogs”, as Azad Safarov reported at the time, won at the film festival in Gothenburg, Sweden. The film received The Dragon Award for Best Nordic Dox.
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