An introverted high-school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she hangs around with Yana and Senia who share her non-conformist status. While she is trying to navigate through an intense time of the pre-graduation year, Masha falls in love that forces her to leave her comfort zone.
About the film
Details
- Running time
- 2 hr. 2 min.
- Country, year
- Ukraine, 2021
- Genre
- Drama
- Language
- Ukrainian
- Subtitles
- English, Lithuanian
- Age rating
- Pegi 13
Credits
- Director
- Kateryna Gornostai
- Screenplay
- Kateryna Gornostai
- Producers
- Vitalii Sheremetiev, Vika Khomenko, Natalia Libet, Olga Beskhmelnytsina
- Cinematography
- Oleksandr Roshchyn
- Music
- Maryanna Klochko
- Cast
- Maria Fedorchenko, Arsenii Markov, Yana Isaienko, Oleksandr Ivanov
Festivals and awards
Director
Kateryna Gornostai
Kateryna Gornostai studied at the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov School of Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow and began making documentaries in 2012. She later moved into fiction and hybrid forms. Alongside her work as a filmmaker, she also teaches documentary filmmaking in a number of educational projects. Stop-Zemlia is her feature debut.
