Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, playing spin the bottle and kissing, making mistakes, refusing to conform, daydreaming with your eyes open - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time. This is also how introverted high school student Masha experiences her senior year, seeing herself as an outsider when she's not hanging out with Yana and Senia, who share her status as a nonconformist. As she navigates through an intense time before graduation, Masha falls in love and is forced to leave her comfort zone. A look into the hearts and lives of a group of teenagers in Ukraine. In her debut STOP-ZEMLIA, Kateryna Gornostai creates "a convincing world full of high school problems, pains and joys, but also darkly sensitive moments in which the viewer can easily immerse himself." (Cineuropa)
Keywords
- Awarded Queer Movies
- Berlinale
- Film Festival Oostende
- Only on Sooner
- Queer Romance
- Romance
- Teddy Awards
- Teenage Years
- Coming of Age
- friendship
- queer
- teen
Actors
- Maria Fedorchenko
- Arsenii Markov
- Yana Isaienko
- Oleksandr Ivanov
Director
- Kateryna Gornostai
Drama, Queer
2h 2min
UKRAINIAN
ENGLISH
FRENCH
DUTCH
GERMAN
Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.
Delightfully light-hearted and wonderfully honest coming-of-age story that flows seamlessly between fiction to documentary.
Hanging out with friends, smoking a lot, playing spin the bottle and kissing, making mistakes, refusing to conform, daydreaming with your eyes open - life as a teenager can be overwhelmingly beautiful and difficult at the same time.
This is also how introverted high school student Masha experiences her senior year, seeing herself as an outsider when she's not hanging out with Yana and Senia, who share her status as a nonconformist.
As she navigates through an intense time before graduation, Masha falls in love and is forced to leave her comfort zone. A look into the hearts and lives of a group of teenagers in Ukraine.
In her debut STOP-ZEMLIA, Kateryna Gornostai creates "a convincing world full of high school problems, pains and joys, but also darkly sensitive moments in which the viewer can easily immerse himself." (Cineuropa)
Festivals
Cast & Crew
Director
Kateryna Gornostai
Cast
Maria Fedorchenko
Cast
Arsenii Markov
Cast
Yana Isaienko
Cast
Oleksandr Ivanov