Storyville
Season 26 Episode 21 - A House Made of Splinters
Tears turn to soap bubbles, and hugs turn to fights, in this award-winning film about an orphanage in eastern Ukraine, filmed before Russia’s invasion in February 2022. In a large ramshackle house near the front line in war-torn eastern Ukraine, a group of Ukrainian women run an orphanage. Children whose homes have been shattered by poverty, violence and alcohol can safely stay there for up to nine months until a decision is made on whether to return them home, foster them or move them to another orphanage. When one child checks out of the orphanage, a new one always checks in, missing their parents. Children like Kolya, who smokes cigarettes on the sly, steals, and draws tattoos on his arms, but who also looks after his younger siblings before collapsing, crying, into his drunk mother’s arms.
Episodes in Season 26
Final Account
85 min
Misha and the Wolves
85 min
President
85 min
Try Harder!
85 min
Tango with Putin
85 min
Writing with Fire
85 min
The Distant Barking of Dogs
85 min
The Earth Is Blue as an Orange
85 min
The Truffle Hunters
85 min
Navalny
94 min
Your Mum and Dad: A Devastating Truth
72 min
Into My Name
90 min
Citizen Ashe
90 min
On the Morning You Wake (to the End of the World)
35 min
Gorbachev. Heaven
99 min
One Day in Ukraine
75 min
And Still I Sing
90 min
Midwives
82 min
Beneath the Surface
88 min
The Fire Within
81 min
A House Made of Splinters
85 min
A Bunch of Amateurs
93 min
