TERYKONY
(German title: Taubes Gestein)
(German title: Taubes Gestein)
A film by Taras Tomenko / Ukraine / 2022 / 80 Minutes
72nd Berlin International Film Festival / in Generation Kplus
Synopsis
Nastya was six when three missiles fired by the Russian army hit her house on New Year's Eve. She survived but lost her father, childhood and faith in life. To the likes of her the war has become something commonplace, like the landscape outside the window. Yet Nastya has dreams. Like every girl, she dreams of a new house and a dog and keeps on writing letters to Santa asking him to bring her father back. According to official statistics, approximately 10,000 children currently reside in the Donbas warzone. The method of documentary surveillance of characters and non-intrusion into their personal space made it possible to show the dramatism of children’s life on the front line.
Credits
Director
Taras Tomenko
Director of Photography
Misha Lubarsky
Sound Recordist
Olha Havrylenko
Music
Alla Zagaykevych
Editing
Victor Malyarenko
Sound Design
Volodymyr Tretiakov
Line Producer
Yuriy Mate
Production Manager
Serhii Ihnatsevich
Producers
Volodymyr Filippovalla, Alla Ovsiannikova, Andriy Suyarko, Oleksandr Kovalenko
Production company
Insightmedia
with the support of
Ukrainian State Film Agency