The Curtain

Thirty years after the fall of the Soviet Union, three generations of Ukrainian women relay their memories, variously sharp and hazy, of three distinct eras. A short documentary and triptych portrait, bittersweet in both content and context. Filmed in the year before Ukraine would have to fight anew for independence, the women’s memories of bygone times ring with devastating relevance, and their hopes for the future take on stinging new significance.