WRIF 17th Annual Film Festival: Stop-Zemlia

WHITE RIVER INDIE FILM FESTIVAL  |  MAY 20 - 29

- Opening Night Fundraiser For Ukraine on Friday, May 20th-
At The Briggs Opera House in White River Junction

Stop-Zemlia

dir. Kateryna Gornostai, Ukraine (subtitled)
 

Completed in 2020, this deeply sensitive and authentic, part-fiction, part-documentary, coming-of-age story follows Ukrainian high school students in Kyiv as they navigate the emotional turmoil of adolescent romance. Director Kateryna Gornostai’s visual and dramatic sensibilities are invitingly naturalistic, while direct-to-camera interviews with the performers punctuate the story, blurring the line between the real people and the characters they portray. Stop-Zemlia, which loosely translates to “stop the world,” offers an intimate look at the inner and social lives of young people in Kyiv just prior to the invasion—the very people soon to be caught in the crossfire of a war that neither they nor the filmmakers could imagine at the time.

Presented with a personal message from director Kateryna Gornostai.

This event is sponsored by the Leslie Center for the Humanities, Dartmouth College, and is presented in partnership with the Ukrainian Student Association at Dartmouth and the Hanover High School Slavic Club.

Funds will be raised to support Ukrainian families with students at Dartmouth. Donations can be made here.