Danish film director about the boy from Donbas The Distant Barking of Dogs has entered the short list of Oscar movie awards. The tape became one of the 15 applicants for the winner in the nomination Best Documentary Full-length Film, Hromadske reports.
“Now we are on the list of the 15 best documentaries of the world. In January, five nominees will be named. There are so many unbelievable rivals that we are breathless … “, the director assistant of the film, Azad Safarov, wrote on Facebook.
Initially, 166 films were presented for this nomination. The five main nominees will be announced in January 2019 – one month before the Oscar ceremony in Los Angeles.
Together with the film about Donbas, short films were also included: On her shoulders, RBG, Will you be my neighbor?, Crime and punishment, etc.
The documentary The Distant Barking of Dogs by Danish-Swedish-Finnish production tells the story of 10-year-old boy Oleg from Donbas, who lives by the front line. It was filmed in the village of Gnutov, Donetsk region from 2015 to 2017. Gnutov village near Mariupol is under the control of Ukraine but regularly falls under fire.
