TIMESTAMP

SYNOPSIS

Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life they had before the war — until February 24, 2022 (and in some regions even earlier, in 2014). Without interviews, narration and reenactments, TIMESTAMP provides an insight into how the war is affecting the daily lives of students and teachers. The film has a mosaic-like structure: it explores how a school functions in-person and online in these terrible times, both on and off the frontline, how day-to-day life is intertwined with constant danger.

CONTACT

AMOUNT OF THE SUPPORT FOR FINALISATION: 45 000 €

Date of the decision : May 7th 2024

THE DIRECTOR

Kateryna Gornostai was born in Lutsk in 1989. She graduated with a degree in biology and later studied journalism at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. In 2012–2013, Kateryna studied documentary filmmaking at Marina Razbezhkina’s School of Documentary Films and Theater. She returned to Kyiv during the Revolution of Dignity to film the events. Later, she started exploring narrative and hybrid forms of filmmaking. STOP-ZEMLIA, Kateryna’s narrative feature debut, premiered in 2021 in the Generation 14plus section of the 71st Berlin International Film Festival and received the Crystal Bear Award from the Youth Jury. She lives and works in Kyiv and teaches film directing.