Arctic

Geneva Award

Arctic


Swiss Premiere
Joe Penna / Iceland / 2018 / 98 min / Drama, Adventure
English, Danish / Subtitles English
In the presence of:
   - Mads Mikkelsen the 13 November 2020 - 21:45

In the Arctic, the temperature can drop as low as -70°C. In this hostile environment, cold and far from everything, a man struggles for his survival. No special effects, no frills: just an actor who displays the full extent of his talent on the white screen of the Far North. As sober as it is trying.

“It was hell: hell for the team, hell for continuity and hell for me [...]. Might I be completely masochistic?”. Mads Mikkelsen has no regrets about his most trying shoot. The perfect actor for this role. A past as a sportsman and beautiful stamina enabled him to play a stunning Robinson, stuck in ice that you can hear cracking. We know nothing about this man. A first film shot in a land of blizzards from another world. Intense.

Direction
Joe Penna
Screenplay
Ryan Morrison, Joe Penna
Image
Tómas Örn Tómasson
Editing
Ryan Morrison
Sound
Thomas Oziel
Music
Joseph Trapanese
Production
Armory Films (Chris Lemole), Pegasus Pictures (Lilja Ósk Snorradóttir)
With
Mads Mikkelsen, Maria Thelma Smáradóttir, Tintrinai Thikhasuk
International sales
Koch Films (Moritz Peters)