Stop-Zemlia

Stop-Zemlia screens virtually nationwide from 5/5 to 5/10.

Access this year’s ND/NF virtually nationwide or in FLC theaters!

• FLC Virtual Cinema: The public-facing rental platform for FLC members, students, seniors, and the general public.
• MoMA Virtual Cinema: Free exclusively for MoMA members starting April 28th.

Guided by a humane curiosity and completely lacking in sensationalism, Kateryna Gornostai’s penetrating study of the confusions and beauty of youth takes enormous emotional care as it observes a class of Ukrainian 11th graders over the course of one year. A documentarian with a dramatist’s eye, the director uses a cast of remarkably poised teenagers playing fictional versions of themselves, centering mostly on Masha (a spellbinding Maria Fedorchenko), trying to make sense of the world around her, and the sensitive Sasha (Oleksandr Ivanov), who’s constantly negotiating a complicated relationship with his mother. Expansive in its time frame yet intimate in scope, Stop-Zemlia finds new, graceful ways to limn the edges of tender adolescence.  An Altered Innocence release.

Access the entire festival slate and SAVE with the Virtual All-Access Pass for just $275 ($348 value). 

All ND/NF screenings include recorded filmmaker Q&As! Virtual ticket holders will be able to access these conversations in the Virtual Cinema timed to when the film premieres. In-theater ticket holders will be sent access to a private YouTube playlist at the start of the festival.