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Strichka chasu

Timestamp
Competition 2025
© Oleksandr Roshchyn
Keeping the schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to salvage at least some of the normal life people had before the war broke out on February 24, 2022 (or in some regions even earlier, in 2014). Without using any interviews, narration or re-enactments, Timestamp provides an insight into how the war is affecting the daily lives of students and teachers. The film employs a mosaic-like structure to explore how a school functions in-person and online in these terrible times, both on and behind the frontline, and how day-to-day life is intertwined with constant danger.
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by Kateryna Gornostai (Director, Screenplay)
with Olha Bryhynets, Borys Khovriak, Mykola Kolomiiets, Valeriia Hukova, Mykola Shpak, Svitlana Popova, Yelyzaveta Loza Ukraine / Luxembourg / Netherlands / France 2025 Ukrainian 125' Colour World premiere | Documentary form

With

  • Olha Bryhynets
  • Borys Khovriak
  • Mykola Kolomiiets
  • Valeriia Hukova
  • Mykola Shpak
  • Svitlana Popova
  • Yelyzaveta Loza

Crew

Director Kateryna Gornostai
Screenplay Kateryna Gornostai
Cinematography Oleksandr Roshchyn
Editing Nikon Romanchenko
Music Alexey Shmurak
Sound Design Mykhailo Zakutskyi, Pavlo Melnyk
Producers Olha Bregman, Natalia Libet, Victor Shevchenko
Executive Producer Zoya Lytvyn
Co-Producers Rinskje Raap, François Le Gall, Marion Guth, Victor Ede

Produced by

2Brave productions

a_BAHN

Rinkel Film&Docs

Cinéphage Productions

World Sales

Best Friend Forever

Photos

Press Conference

Red Carpet

Kateryna Gornostai

© Nikon Romanchenko

Born in Lutsk, Ukraine in 1989, the filmmaker first studied biology and later journalism at the Mohyla Academy in Kyiv. From 2012 to 2013, she attended the Marina Razbezhkina School of Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow but returned to Kyiv during Euromaidan to film the protests. She then began exploring fictional and hybrid forms. Her feature film debut Stop-Zemlia premiered in the 2021 Generation 14+ section of the Berlinale and won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film. She currently lives and works in Kyiv where she teaches film directing.

Filmography

2015 Viddalik (Away); short film · Skriz maidan (Maidan Is Everywhere); documentary 2017 Buzok (Lilac); short film 2021 Stop-Zemlia 2025 Strichka chasu (Timestamp)

Bio- & filmography as of Berlinale 2025