Boney Piles

Filmstill Boney Piles

Boney Piles

Terykony
Taras Tomenko
Spotlight on: Docudays UA 2022 2022
Documentary Film
Ukraine
2022
80 minutes
Ukrainian,
Russian
subtitles: 
English

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Taras Tomenko
Volodymyr Filippov
Andriy Suyarko
Alla Ovsyannikova
Misha Lubarskyi
Viktor Malyarenko
Alla Zagaykevych
Olha Havrylenko
Volodymyr Tretiakov

Toretsk in eastern Ukraine is marked by the decline of the coal industry: wasteland, rubble, scrap metal. In 2014, Russian separatists brought war into the region, destroying homes and families, including Nastya’s. The girl and her friends, all on the brink of adulthood, accept the decaying outskirts, gone to seed in the face of threat and depression, as normal. Taras Tomenko observes their small danced or sung escapes, their moments of obliviousness, sometimes their tears.

Sylvia Görke
Nominated for MDR Film Prize
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Ukraine
War and Conflict
Family Ties
Coming of Age