Directed by Ihor Ivanko • 2022 • Ukraine

In the 1960s and ‘70s, films shot by Ukrainian cinematographer Leonid Burlaka for the Odesa Film Studio were known to millions across the USSR. Today, suffering with Alzheimer’s, he has lost touch with these past glories, his work scattered throughout distant archives. When Burlaka’s grandson (and fellow filmmaker) Ihor Ivanko discovers hundreds of rolls of damaged photographic film in the family’s summer house, he hopes to use the footage they contain to reconnect his grandfather with this precious history – but he may already be too late. A touching and poetic meditation on the nature of cinematic memory and forgetting, Fragile Memory brings personal and public histories into the same faltering frame.

FRAGILE MEMORY • КРИХКА ПАМ’ЯТЬ
Directed by Ihor Ivanko
Written by Ihor Ivanko, Mariia Ponomarova
Cinematography by Ihor Ivanko, Illia Yehorov
Music by Marek Piaček

In Ukrainian and Russian with English subtitles