6th EASTERN UKRAINIAN FILM FESTIVAL
01 — 06 OCTOBER 2022

Nastya was 6 when on New Year’s Eve shells fired by the Russian army hit their house. For these children war has become a part of a landscape, an atmosphere. Today, most of Nastya’s life loop on her ruined house. To return to a normal life, Nastya needs help of psychologists. She has PTSD. But Nastya doesn’t stop dreaming. Like every girl, she dreams of a new big house, of a pet, of get an education. A child is a child, after all! According to official statistics, about 10,000 children live in the war zone in Ukraine.

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Trailer

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About Director

Taras Tomenko

Taras Tomenko member of European Film Academy
Film director, scriptwriter, born February 6, 1976, Kyiv, Ukraine.
Education: Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State University of Theatre,
Cinema and Television Arts, Department of Cinema and Television Arts;
Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University, Department of Philology.
2001 Berlinale Panorama award for Tyr (Shooting Gallery).

Selected filmography:
2021 SLOVO HOUSE. UNFINISHED NOVEL (feature)
2017 SLOVO HOUSE (documentary)
2016 CHILDREN OF DONBAS (documentary)
2015 CHECKPOINT UKRAINE (documentary)
2007 PRISON MAMAS (documentary)
2006 LIZA (documentary)
2004 PARCHED LAND (short feature)
2004 DISCOVERING UKRAINE (documentary)
2001 TYR (SHOOTING GALLERY) (short feature)
1999 SLAUGHTER HOUSE (short feature)

Festival awards:
Best short film (Panorama) – 51st International Berlin Film Festival,
2001 – TYR (SHOOTING GALLERY)
SPECIAL PRIZE OF FEDERATION OF EUROPEAN FILM DIRECTORS (FERA),
2005 – PARCHED LAND
Mostra internasionał de’l arte sinematografegal, 2001
ARTE FRANCE Award – TYR (SHOOTING GALLERY)
Best silent film – SAPPORO International Film Festival, Japan),
2006 – PARCHED LAND
Best short film – International Film Festival in Thessalonica, Greece,
2006 – PARCHED LAND
Best documentary film, Best camerawork, Special Jury Award for
Best Documentary – NEW CINEMA International
Film Festival, Smolensk, Russia, 2006 – LIZA
Best documentary film – International Film Festival, Baku, Azerbaijan, 2006 – LIZA

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Творча команда

Producer Volodymyr Filippov, Alla Ovsiannikova, Andriy Suyarko, Oleksandr Kovalenko
Operator Misha Lubarsky
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04-10-2022 15:10
(Українська) Жовтень / Зал КІНОМАН
(Українська) Національний конкурс У співпартнерстві з ОМКФ. Після сеансу Q&A з творчою групою