NYC PREMIERE A rundown halfway house in Ukraine houses the country’s most vulnerable—children cramped between precarious homes and the foster care system. Simon Lereng Wilmont documents fast-disappearing childhoods amidst ever-worsening political strife with great intimacy and access. As the film records how children suffer and survive violence and abandonment, the “orphanage” becomes a metaphor for a home, a country and a world where people entrusted with leadership fail to rise up to their responsibilities. – Bedatri Choudhury
The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with Simon Lereng Wilmont
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Director: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Executive Producer: Signe Byrge Sørensen
Producer: Monica Hellström
Cinematographer: Simon Lereng Wilmont
Editor: Michael Aaglund
Language: Ukrainian/Russia
Country: Denmark, Finland, Sweden, Ukraine
Year: 2022
Sales Agent: Cinephil
