Fragments of Ice (2024)

Directors

Maria Stoianova

Cast

Inna Stoianova, Maria Stoianova, Mykhailo Stoianov

The story

The film is an essay documentary assembled from fragments of the unique family video archives of a figure skater from the Ukrainian ice ballet ensemble. His daughter, director Maria Stoianova, revisits recordings of her father’s foreign tours from the 1980s and 1990s, mixed with home movies, and shows the contrast between the idealised image of the West and the bleak Soviet reality. Through the prism of personal stories, the historical breaks of the collapse of the USSR and the restoration of Ukraine’s independence acquire new shades in this restrained exploration of resilience, identity and hope that continues into the present day.

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