EXCLUSIVE: Switzerland- and France-based sales company Lightdox has acquired world rights to Robin Hunzinger’s Ice Grave, ahead of its world premiere at DOK.fest Munich this month.
Ice Grave investigates an enigmatic chapter in Arctic exploration, when, in 1897, three men embarked on a journey to the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon. They vanished, and were not discovered until their perfectly preserved remains, personal journals and undeveloped photographic film were found on the remote island of Kvitoya in 1930.
The film is produced by Cedric Bonin for France’s Seppia, in co-production with Malcolm Dixelius for Sweden’s Dixit International and Karl Emil Rikardsen for Norway’s Relation04 Media. The film is a co-production with Arte France, and SVT.
It will have its world premiere on Saturday, May 10 at DOK.fest in the Stranger Than Fiction competition.
Anna Berthollet, Lightdox founder and CEO, described the film as “a cinematic séance, resurrecting the voices, faces, and dreams of the past with haunting elegance.”
French filmmaker Hunzinger has made feature documentaries for over 20 years, including 2021’s Ultraviolette and the Blood-Spitters Gang, also sold by Lightdox.
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