STRIČKA ČASU (TIMESTAMP) 

For her first feature-length documentary, Kateryna Gornostai returns to a school setting – as she did for her fiction film STOP-ZEMLIA (IFFI #31). For over a year, she and her team filmed in Ukrainian schools, whose locations she indicates with the distance to the frontline or to the Russian or Belarusian border. The result is a mosaic of acute observations that convey what it means to live in a war without ever showing combat itself. Despite all the structural and organisational difficulties, more than ever, school is a place of social cohesion, marred by the war.