Timestamp

Production year: 2025
Country: Ukraine
Director: Kateryna Gornostai
Producers: Olha Bregman, Natalia Libet & Victor Shevchenko

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.