BONEY PILES
dir. Taras Tomenko, 2021
Ukraine, 90 min
In Ukrainian & Russian w/ English subtitles
FRIDAY, DECEMBER 9 – MIDNIGHT
THURSDAY, DECEMBER 15 – 10 PM
BONEY PILES is a harrowing film about the impact of war on children and how it affects their psyche. Dissonant images of youth and the consequences of war are shown in striking contrast to one another. The film explores the lives of children who live near the front lines of Ukraine’s war with Russia, the Donbass region. For the children featured in the film, their lives resemble the Hunger Games—dystopian. They scavenge for pieces of metal or dig graves for subsistence while day by day they forget what their former lives were before the war started.