A House Made of Splinters m/samtale etter filmen

Vi inviterer til visning av "A House Made of Splinters" under HUMAN internasjonale dokumentarfilmfestival tirsdag 7. mars kl. 18:00 på Vika kino.

Etter visningen blir det samtale om hvordan krig påvirker barn.

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A ticket to the film screening is required to attend the talk.

Helen Christie, a specialist in clinical child psychology, and Ruslana Burova, head of the Ukrainian human rights organisation MART in conversation with Nora Sveaass, a specialist in clinical psychology, about the impact of war and how to support the work with children that have experienced serious trauma.

About the panel
Nora Sveaass (Moderator - Specialist in clinical psychology)
Helen Christie (Specialist in clinical child psychology)
Ruslana Burova (Head of MART, Ukrainian Human Rights NGO)
Duration: 45 minutes
Language: English (Anna Fedina will translate)

About the film
A House Made of Splinters follows three children who have been taken from their parents and placed in a temporary orphanage. There is laughter and despair, loneliness, phone calls with hope, and children's ability to keep their spirits up despite grief and loss. In the years 2015–2021, director Simon Lereng Wilmont traveled between Eastern Ukraine and his native Denmark to document children's everyday lives in the shadow of war.

More info
Helen Christie is a clinical psychologist and former director of the East and South Regional Centre for Child and Adolescent Mental Health – Research and post graduate centre (RBUP). She has worked extensively on sexual abuse of children and on patients with late effects, including adults. She has also worked with traumatised refugee children in Norway, and children in war zones. Helen has written numerous articles and books on trauma, sexual abuse and resilience. She was a co-author of the manual Stabilisation and Skills Training in Trauma and of the Training Manual for women -Mental Health and Gender Based Violence - Helping Survivors of Sexual Violence in Conflict -. And the manual boys and men exposed to sexual violence. She has run different trainings on gender-based violence, helping traumatised children and training in family guidance programs around the world (Iraq, Palestine, South Africa, Nepal, etc) .

Ruslana Burova is the head of MART, an organization affiliated with the Human Rights House in Chernihiv Ukraine. Ruslana fled to Norway and currently lives in Bø in Telemark. Her organization works, among other things, to strengthen teachers and others who work with children. MHHRI have been working with Ruslana since the war started and held webinars for her colleagues in Ukraine to strengthen their expertise on children and trauma.

Nora Sveaass is a Norwegian psychologist and emeritus professor at the Department of Psychology at the University of Oslo. Her research covers refugee issues, human rights violations, and the psychological consequences of torture and violence as well as the treatment and rehabilitation of victims of torture and violence, including women exposed to sexual violence in war and conflict. She was a member of the UN Torture Committee for two periods from 2005 to 2013, in 2015 she was elected as a member of the United Nations Subcommittee on Prevention of Torture. She is currently the chair of the organization Mental Health & Human Rights Info (MHHRI).

This event is a cooperation between Mental Health & Human Rights Info (MHHRI) and HUMAN International Documentary Festival