Working with legendary teacher Tatyana Volkova, Joy Womack trains to one day become a prima ballerina. But behind the beauty of dance lurks a world full of pain and brutal competition. Joy is forced to push her physical and mental boundaries, putting her health, her relationships, and perhaps her entire life at stake, on a journey to discover and understand what it truly means to be the best.
Based on a true story, New Zealand writer-director James Napier Robertson’s Joika follows a promising American ballerina as she goes through the gauntlet of the Bolshoi Ballet Academy, as one of the first Americans admitted to the Moscow Academy.
