Terykony | Instituto Cervantes of Chicago

Please join the EUNIC Chicago Cluster at Instituto Cervantes for the Chicago premiere of the feature documentary Boney Piles by Taras Tomenko.

Terykony / Boney Piles

Directed by Taras Tomenko
2021, Documentary, 1h08, Ukraine

Nastya was ten when a missile fired by Russian terrorists on New Year’s Eve changed her life forever. It took her father’s life and destroyed their house. Nastya’s school is only in 500 meters from the front line. War has become commonplace. Just a part of the landscape. The only means for Nastya’s family to survive is the scrap metal they scavenge while under fire. Senya is seven years old. He is a first-grader. In the seven years of his life, he has seen seven years of war and not a day of peace. Senya likes to climb on the boney pile to watch the sunset. His stepfather dig graves to earn money for a new suit and backpack for Senya. This is a film about the children who live in the war zone in Ukraine.
In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles
Free and open to the public (registration on eventbrite required)

Taras Tomenko, a well known Ukrainian film director and screenwriter, was born in 1976 in Kyiv, Ukraine. He was trained at the Ivan Karpenko-Kary National University of Theatre, Cinema, and Television as a documentary filmmaker and at the Taras Shevchenko National University of Kyiv as a Ukrainian philologist. In 2001, he won the Berlinale Panorama Award for his documentary short The Shooting Gallery. Tomenko is a member of the European Film Academy. The Ukrainian Film Club of Columbia University has screened most all of Tomenko’s films on Columbia’s campus, as well as at Harvard, Stanford, the University of Toronto, and other North American universities and cinemas. The unofficial US premier of his feature narrative The House Called Slovo, An Unfinished Novel, 2021, was held at Columbia University in April 2022.