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The Distant Barking of Dogs

2017

Simon Lereng Wilmont

Documentary

7.1

85

Documentary 10-year-old Oleg lives in the Donetsk region of eastern Ukraine—a warzone that often echoes with anti-aircraft fire and missile strikes. Sometimes these sounds are in the distance, while other times they’re frighteningly close. At school, Oleg learns about the bomb shelter and what to do when encountering a landmine. While many have left this dangerous area, Oleg remains with his grandmother, who has taken care of him since the death of ... [+]

	Media	Author	Review
		Neil Young The Hollywood Reporter	"Finds beauty and horror on the bleeding edge of war (...) All credit to Danish documentarian Simon Lereng Wilmont for making his solo debut 'The Distant Barking of Dogs' feel so memorably distinctive"
		Fionnuala Halligan Screendaily	"Moving and effective (...) Lereng Wilmont conveys Oleg’s innocence, even amidst the rubble of war"
		Guy Lodge Variety	"An unsentimental work that, however upsetting, invites universal empathy (...) [It] deftly weaves a precise coming-of-age narrative into its morally urgent anti-war tableau"
		Vladan Petkovic Cineuropa	"Wilmont has crafted a beautiful, poetic observational documentary (...) The filmmaker gets very close to the protagonists, both visually and emotionally, and we feel like we have got to know them intimately."

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