‘A House Made Of Splinters’ Beats Odds To Make Oscar Shortlist
deadline.comBig 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.
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