Stop-Zemlia

Explores the realm of teenagers in the contemporary world with sensitive and intriguing insight.
-- Flickfeast

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Stop-Zemlia

Hanging out with friends, smoking too much, spinning bottles and kissing, making mistakes, playing, refusing to accept, dreaming with open eyes – life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. Introverted high school girl Masha sees herself as an outsider unless she’s hanging out with her two best friends, Yana and Senia, who share her non-conformist status. While trying to navigate through her last year of school, Masha falls in love in a way that forces her out of her comfort zone. In her debut, the Ukrainian director Kateryna Gornostai composes a deeply emotional and multi-layered portrait of a generation whilst seamlessly flowing between the fictional and the documentary.

"A truly immersive film." ~ Cineuropa

"Contemplative, naturalistic, and compassionate filmmaking." ~ One Room with a View
Not Rated
Genre
Drama
Runtime
122
Language
Ukrainian
Director
Kateryna Gornostai
Writer(s)
Kateryna Gornostai
Cast
Maria Fedorchenko, Arsenii Markov, Yana Isaienko
FEATURED REVIEW
Alexandra Heller-Nicholas, AWFJ Women on Film

The dizzying liminality of adolescence is not exactly radically new terrain when it comes to coming of age movies, but with 'Stop-Zemlia,' director Kateryna Gornostai’s debut fictional feature film turns it up to eleven in her documentary-imbued portrait of the kids of Class 11a at a seemingly ...

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