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This Place We Call Our Home

Sybilla Tuxen, Thora Lorentzen, 2014

A documentary film from Ukraine, summer 14. With a main focus on imagery over dialog and with a fragmented storyline, the film depicts the conflict in Ukraine, and how it affects everyday life of those who stay at home; of those who is waiting. ”War” is normally understood as action, and the images we think of are the ones from a battlefield.

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Doroga

Max Ksjonda, 2013

This is a story of a teenager who is neglected by his divorced parents. A bet with his friends leads him to the road where he must go for a ride on an invalid chair fixed to a truck in a special way. One has to go like this for a certain distance.

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Outside

Olha Zhurba, 2021

Roma, a 13-year-old street kid neglected by his family and the state, becomes a poster boy for the Ukrainian Revolution in 2014. His story traverses the years he spent on the streets of revolutionary Kyiv and after his release from the orphanage, left to face the outside world with nothing. As Roma sets out to build an adult life, it seems that his future has already been decided.

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Papyni krosivky

Olha Zhurba, 2020

13-year-old Sasha lives in a boarding school for children deprived of parental care. He is one of the luckiest – a family have finally agreed to adopt him. Today he will move to America forever - but there’s something that won’t let him go.

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A House Made of Splinters

Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2022

In this war-worn and impoverished corner of Eastern Ukraine where addiction casts a long shadow, there sits a safe haven for children temporarily removed from their parents. A House Made of Splinters follows three kids awaiting their fate— will they go back or move on to a new home while a group of dedicated social workers create small moments of joy and respite from childhoods all but lost.
Filmmaker Simon Lereng Wilmont returns with a follow-up to his acclaimed first feature, The Distant Barking of Dogs, offering a unique look into how the long-term consequences of war on a society already under strain impacts the most vulnerable.

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Den ukrainske skat

Teddy Bruslund, 2025

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Wunderkinder

Marcus O. Rosenmüller, 2011

Two Jewish children, musical prodigies in the Ukraine in 1941, experience the excitement of an international tour. They meet a non-Jewish German girl who is keen to develop her musical skills and be mentored by them. However, the rising anti-semitism starts to impact upon their blossoming friendship with disastrous consequences.

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Mr. Nobody Against Putin

David Borenstein, 2025

Pasha Talankin is an unlikely hero—a beloved Russian primary school teacher, known as a mentor and prankster who offers students a safe haven in his office. After Russia invades Ukraine, Pasha’s role in the school changes dramatically as he is reluctantly drawn into Putin’s propaganda machine. Forced to promote state-sanctioned messages and horrified by the transformation of his school and community, he struggles with guilt and a sense of powerlessness, leading him to become an international whistleblower.

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The Distant Barking of Dogs

Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other.

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The Distant Barking of Dogs

Simon Lereng Wilmont, 2017

The film follows 10-year-old Oleg, whose life has been turned upside down by the ongoing war in East Ukraine. Oleg lives with his beloved grandmother Alexandra in a small house in a village on the frontline. Most people have left the village, but Oleg and Alexandra love their life together there and want to stay on and take care of each other.

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Lida

Anna Eborn, 2017

The film is a documentary epic and a portrait of a human being in history and in our present. Lida is an old Babushka – and the last Old-Swedish speaking person in a former Swedish settlement in Eastern Ukraine. She lives in a nursing home and has fallen in love with a Russian man.

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Børnene på Silkevejen 12:15 - Pige væk hjemmefra

Simon Lereng Wilmont, Alisa Kovalenko, 2023

In the countries of the Silk Road we meet 15 children – one character in each film – on the threshold of adolescence, who are all fighting for a space and an identity of their own, and who all show bravery by taking action on the things that matter to them. With recognizable themes – friendship, love, wishes for the future, parents’ ambitions – which is part of every child’s life, we hope to eliminate geographical and cultural gaps between our main characters and their Danish audience.