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.
The method of documentary surveillance of characters and non-intrusion into their personal space makes it possible to show the dramatic nature of life for children on the front line.
CREW:
Director: Taras Tomenko
Producer: Volodymyr Filippov, Alla Ovsiannikova, Andriy Suyarko, Oleksandr Kovalenko
Cinematographer: Misha Lubarski
Editor: Viktor Malyarenko
Sound: Volodymyr Tretiakov
Production
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Awards
Premiere at the 72nd Berlin International Film Festival in the GENERATION programme
Director
Taras Tomenko
Taras Tomenko is a film director, scriptwriter, born in 1976 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He studied at the Karpenko-Kary Kyiv State University of Theatre, Cinema and Television Arts at the Department of Cinema and Television Arts, and at the Taras Shevchenko Kyiv State University at Department of Philology. Taras is a member of European Film Academy. His film
Tyr (2001) received an award at the 2001 Berlinale Panorama.
Selected Filmography
Slaughter House (1999),
Tyr (Shooting Gallery) (2001),
Parched Land (2004),
Discovering Ukraine (2004),
Liza (2006),
Prison Mamas (2007),
Checkpoint Ukraine (2015),
Children of Donbas (2016),
Slovo House (2017),
Terykony (2022)
