卡特琳娜·戈诺斯泰，Born in Lutsk, Ukraine in 1989, the filmmaker first studied biology and later journalism at the Mohyla Academy in Kyiv. From 2012 to 2013, she attended the Marina Razbezhkina School of Documentary Film and Theatre in Moscow but returned to Kyiv during Euromaidan to film the protests. She then began exploring fictional and hybrid forms. Her feature film debut Stop-Zemlia premiered in the 2021 Generation 14+ section of the Berlinale and won the Crystal Bear for the Best Film. She currently lives and works in Kyiv where she teaches film directing.