Kateryna Gornostai
Directing
- Born
- March 15, 1989 (age 37) · Lutsk, USSR (Ukraine)
Kateryna Gornostai (born March 15, 1989) is a Ukrainian film director, screenwriter and film editor. She is a jury member of the film festival Wiz-Art since 2014 and a member of the Ukrainian Film Academy since 2017.
Kateryna Gornostai was born in Lutsk, Volyn Oblast on March 15, 1989. She was the only child of psychotherapists Svetlana Vaskivska and Pavel Gornostay.
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First, Kateryna studied biology (2010) and later Journalism (2012, MD) at the National University of Kyiv-Mohyla Academy. Having graduated from the Marina Razbezhkina and Mikhail Ugarov's Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow from October 2012 to November 2013, she returned home to Kyiv.
Kateryna Gornostai started her career as a documentary filmmaker in 2012. She is currently working on educational documentaries as well as her own documentary and fiction film projects. Kateryna also teaches documentary filmmaking at Kyiv-Mohyla Academy's School of Journalism. She began to experiment with fiction films and hybrid forms. Her aesthetic and ability to convey life without artificiality have caught the attention of film critics.
Known for
Stop-Zemlia
January 20, 2022
Ukrainian Sheriffs
March 26, 2016
Timestamp
September 10, 2025
Butterflies
October 26, 2016
Euromaidan. Rough Cut
March 21, 2014
Crocodile
July 20, 2018
Away
May 23, 2015
Lilac
July 21, 2017
Condensed
July 26, 2016
Between Us
October 25, 2013
Maidan Is Everywhere
March 23, 2015
Leopolis Night
August 20, 2021
Behind the camera19
- 2025Timestamp Director, Screenplay
- 2024SOLO Director
- 2023Friday, Saturday, Sunday Camera Operator, Editor
- 2023Ukraine: Nightlife in Resistance Story Consultant
- 2022Stop-Zemlia Director, Screenplay, Editor
- 2021Leopolis Night Producer
- 2019While You Stay with Me Editor
- 2018Crocodile Writer, Director, Editor
- 2017Lilac Director, Writer
- 2016Butterflies