Education
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Biography
Kateryna Gornostai — director and screenwriter. In 2010, she received an education as a biologist. Later, she graduated from the Kyiv-Mohyla Academy (master’s degree in journalism). In 2012-2013, she studied at the School of Documentary Films and Theater of Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov. She made her debut as a documentary film director. Then she started working with fiction films and hybrid forms.
In 2015, her short film Away won the National Competition at the Molodist International Film Festival. In 2021, her feature fiction debut Stop-Zemlia won the Crystal Bear for Best Film, awarded by the Youth Jury in Generation 14plus at Berlinale; three awards, including the "Grand Prix" of the OIFF ’21, five awards of the Kyiv Critics’ Week ’21. This year, the world premiere of her full-length documentary Timestamp took place in the main competition at the 75th Berlin International Film Festival. Kateryna is also involved in educational projects dedicated to documentary filmmaking and film editing. Lives and works in Kyiv.
SELECTED FILMOGRAPHY:
Timestamp (2025, director),
Solo (2024, director), Between us (2013, director), Euromaidan. The Rough Cut (2014, director), Maidan is everywhere (2015, director), Away (2015, director), Lilac (2017, director), Stop-Zemlia (2021, director)
