Timestamp (2025)

Directed by Kateryna Gornostai

Not Rated, 125 minutes

In Ukrainian with English subtitles

Keeping schools open in Ukraine is an attempt to recreate at least some of the normal life the nation felt prior to the war on February 24, 2022 (and in some regions even earlier, in 2014). Without interviews, narration, war footage, or reenactments, acclaimed filmmaker/documentarian Kateryna Gornostai provides insight into how the war is affecting the daily lives of students and teachers. The film has a mosaic-like structure: It explores how a school functions in-person and online in these terrible times, both on and off the frontline, and how day-to-day life is intertwined with constant danger.