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TERA

TERA

Nikon Romanchenko
Ukraine, 2018, 70 Min

Tera is a manufacturer of sweets in Ternopil. But the life of long-time employee Lyuba is anything but sweet. She is waiting for the message that just does not want to come – a sign of life from her son. So, she has to do her day's work in peace, although she is totally desperate inside. War means uncertainty and fear.

Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema

A candy factory in the west of the Ukraine. Lyuba rushes to work. She talks a little, but her face speaks volumes. Her eyes are glassy, ​her gaze is empty. He hasn’t called. There is no sign of her son who is in the war zone in the east. Lyuba sets out on her own for search, but she can’t find him. So, she goes back to the assembly line and says nothing. But also, the faces of the colleagues show desperation. And then comes the call that changes everything.

A very quiet and deliberate film, what only reinforces the helplessness in the eyes of leading actress Natalia Polovynka and makes the viewer feel empathy for her. Director and screenwriter Nikon Romanchenko has also published the material as a short film (UNAVAILABLE) and thus won a prize at the Molodist International Film Festival. In TERA he takes more time for the plot and shows not only the everyday life, but also the suffering of the main character, which you can imagine as a documentary one. NaF

Filmformat
DCP | Farbe / Colour
Drehbuch
Nikon Romanchenko
Kamera
Yarema Malashchuk
Ton
Serhyi Avdeev
Schnitt
Nikon Romanchenko
Ausstattung
Margaryta Kulik
Darsteller
Natalya Polovynka, Volodymyr Levitskiy, Alina Kostyukova, Natalia Turchyn, Irakliy Pazenko
Produzent
Valeria Sochyvets
Produktion
Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
Kontakt
Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema
Valeria Sochyvets
Prorizna 22b.of.24
01001 Kyiv
Ukraine
www.cuc.com.ua
sochyvets@gmail.com
Nikon Romanchenko

Nikon Romanchenko - born in 1991 in Kiev, Ukraine. In 2014 he completed his directing studies at the Kiev National Theatre, Cinema and Television University. Since then he has produced several documentary fiction and experimental films. He is a member and co-founder of the NGO "CUC – Contemporary Ukrainian Cinema". TERA is based on his short film UNAVAILABLE and is his feature film debut.

Movies
SALVATION (2013, doc, short)
FACES (2014, doc, short)
CAROUSEL (2015, short)
INTERVAL (2017, doc, short)
UNAVAILABLE (2018, short)