Taras Tomenko

Taras Tomenko was born in 1976 in Kiev into the family of the poet Mykola Tomenko. His grandfather died in World War II, and his grandmother died young as a result of hard physical labor on the kolkhoz. Tomenko studied at the philology faculty of the National Taras Shevchenko University in Kiev and at the National University of Theater, Film and Television IK Karpenko-Kary in Kiev. In 2004, he participated in the Berlinale Talents Campus.