Kateryna Gornostai
TIMESTAMP
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 the 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.
By intimately documenting a year in the lives of students and teachers in Ukraine as they face the challenges of schooling during wartime, the film sheds light on how the war shapes the educational experience.
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Kateryna Gornostai, born in Lutsk in 1989, is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor.
She started her career as a documentary filmmaker in 2012 and is currently working on educational documentaries as well as her own documentary and fiction film projects.
Kateryna also teaches documentary filmmaking at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's School of Journalism.
She began to experiment with fiction films and hybrid forms. Her aesthetic and ability to convey life without artificiality have caught the attention of film critics. -
75th Berlin International Film Festival
In Competition
CPH:DOX Festival
Eurimages New Lab Outreach Award
Berlin International Film Festival 2025
Nominee, Golden Berlin Bear, Best FilmGhent International Film Festival 2025
Nominee, Grand Prix, Best Film
Docs Barcelona, ES 2025
Nominee, DocsBarcelonaTV3 Award, Best Documentary
Winner, Antaviana Jury AwardDocudays UA International Documentary Human Rights Film Festival
NomineeKarlovy Vary International Film Festival
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GENRE: Documentary
RATING: PG13
DURATION: 125 min
LANGUAGES: Ukrainian (with English Subtitles) -
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