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Three men are expecting their first child. Kristopher, David, and Sindre, all in their early thirties. They live together in a relationship. While David and Sindre identify as homosexual, Kristopher was born as a woman and today identifies as a homosexual man. Kristopher will be the birth father. The film chronicles the three fathers' journey from early on in the pregnancy through the time of waiting, the birth and the beginnings of a new life. Are they ready for what awaits them? And is society prepared to embrace them - and their child?

A double agent's attempt to expose corruption ends in his downfall.

Personal, political and social developments unfold in Fragments of Ice, edited together from fifteen VHS tapes covering the period 1986 to 1994: video diaries shot by the director's father, a champion figure-skater, on his foreign tours with the Ukrainian Ensemble Ballet on Ice, as well as in his own home. As we follow director Maria Stoianova growing up, we witness the parallel collapse of the Soviet Union and Ukraine's journey towards regaining its independence, then its transition to a market economy. Expectations reflected in the glamourous footage of the West, shot by Stoianova's father on his tours, contrast starkly with the home video footage of peeling walls, collapsed ceilings and cockroaches back at the family flat. Fragments of Ice captures both the broad sweep of history and the impact of this on the lives of real people, ending with a new upheaval - the 2022 Russian invasion of Ukraine. "The End of History never happened", Stoianova muses. "It froze and caught up with us years later."

February 23rd, 15 musicians start a tour in Italy. The day after, Russia invaded their homeland, and they continue their tour to raise support for Ukraine. Starting the mission together, as time goes, they need to find their own ways.