

Ice Grave
On July 11, 1897, three men - the Swedish engineer Salomon August Andrée and his companions Nils Strindberg and Knut Fraenkel - set off from Spitsbergen for the North Pole in a hydrogen balloon, a daring attempt to conquer the Arctic from the air. Contact is lost after a few days. They are never seen again. Thirty-three years later, on August 6, 1930, a sealing ship makes a chilling discovery on the remote Island of Kvitøya, the northernmost part of Svalbard. The expedition’s remains, bodies frozen in time beneath the snow, alongside journals and undeveloped film material. Ninety-three of the 240 recovered photographs are salvaged. The documentary reconstructs this expedition between delusion and vision, between scientific ambition and human vulnerability as a compelling mosaic of past and present – an archaeological crime thriller about the price of discovery, the beauty of the unknown, and the melting of memory in the ice of time, with a touch of tragic, unrequited love.
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BrazilBR
- PremiereIt's All True - International Documentary Film Festival9 Apr 2026
FranceFR
- Digital / OTTArte.tv (edited version)24 Feb 2026
- TVArte (edited version)3 Mar 2026
GermanyDE
- PremiereDOK.fest München10 May 2025
- PremiereBlack Forest Film Festival28 Nov 2025
- Digital / OTTArte.tv (edited version)24 Feb 2026
- TVArte (edited version)3 Mar 2026
Hong KongHK
- PremiereHong Kong International Film Festival2 Apr 2026
South KoreaKR
- TVALLEBS International Documentary Festival25 Aug 2026
- PremiereALLEBS International Documentary Festival28 Aug 2026
SwedenSE
- TVSVT19 Oct 2025
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Ice Grave was released on 10 May 2025.
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