Dance on Thin Ice

Dance On Thin Ice tells the story of Felix a twelveyearold boy who is left to spend Christmas alone while his parents travel to India A reluctant Felix ends up as an ice cream seller at a deserted swimming stadium where the surface of the pool has frozen solid But the swimming stadium is not completely deserted after all Felix meets a darkhaired refugee girl called Fakira whose parents were killed in a bombing in SyriaA dreamlike story where two young strangers to each other a boy and a refugee girl meet under unusual circumstances Together they make the impossible possibleDance On Thin Ice is a story about alienation and the latent power of being different The main characters of the film are misfits In their own way there is something wrong with them but at the same time something unique Together they right a wrong The film shows the world through the eyes of a child on a childs terms The themes of the film are tolerance and overcoming oneself