‘Timestamp’ Review: Kateryna Gornostai’s Extraordinary Doc Takes Us Inside The War On Ukraine And Its Children – Berlin Film Festival
deadline.comThere can’t possibly be a more timely film in the Berlinale lineup this year than Kateryna Gornostai’s Timestamp, an extraordinary deep-cover documentary about the effects of war in everyday Ukraine that, despite the harsh front-page relevance of its subject matter, has a beautiful old-fashioned formalism in its editing and composition.
But like the wartime films of Humphrey Jennings — notably Fires Were Started and London Can Take It! — it is also a celebration of national character, depicting a generation that has only known conflict and yet, somehow, refuses to be defined by it.
Walter Salles’ Oscar nominee I’m Still Here dramatizes a similar story of resistance, but Timestamp is all the more remarkable for capturing the real thing, and in real time.
Shot between March 2023 and June 2024 Gornostai’s film takes us on a whirlwind tour of Ukraine, to towns and cities both near to and far from the front line.
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