The project for Crack in the Ice, the new feature film directed by Maja Miloš, author notable for her award-winning debut, the film Clip, won the support of the Dutch Film Fund, in the amount of 130 thousand euros. This project was previously supported by Film Center Serbia (FCS), Slovenian Film Center and the MEDIA Creative Europe program, and the Dutch co-producer will be Volya Films. The Serbian producer is Bash Celik from Belgrade.
Marija is a skater who lives with her father, a truck driver, on the outskirts of Belgrade. Overwhelmed by the pain of losing her mother who died three years earlier, she cannot express her fiery sexuality. She perceives it as a great secret that haunts her and she feels worthless. Mary’s father becomes close with a woman who then moves into their house together with her two daughters. Maria supports her father but realizes that she can’t trust her new stepmother…
In her explanation of the project, the author Maja Miloš explained: “The crack in the ice deals with the issues of the integrity of women in a materialistically and competitively organized world filled with aggression. The film follows the heroine’s intimate journey of self-acceptance and integrity, emphasizing the extent of degradation and exploitation of women through various social strata, with the aim of depicting real life in a raw way without accompanying moralizing. Narrative models of fairy tales are immersed in a contemporary story to explore how humanistic ideas of fairy tales work in today’s world… ”
Maja Miloš graduated from the Belgrade Faculty of Dramatic Arts. She has participated in the Berlinale Talent Campus program, as well as in the documentary program La Femis. She has directed eleven short films, most of which have won awards nationally and internationally. Her first feature film Clip (2012) was screened at international film festivals in Rotterdam, San Sebastian, Toronto, Moscow, Karlovy Vary, Thessaloniki, Munich – and has won numerous awards, including the Tiger Award in Rotterdam. She was a member of the jury of the festival in Rotterdam, Sarajevo, Karlovy Vary, Pančevo, Leskovac… She works as an assistant at the Department of Film and Television Directing at the Faculty of Dramatic Arts in Belgrade.