Arctic

It doesn’t take long for Joe Penna’s Arctic to establish itself as one of the best movies ever made about a man stranded in the wilderness. In fact, there’s a small but crystalline moment in the first act when this hellishly cold portrait of human endurance claws ahead of the pack and never looks back. The context is easy to describe - the conflict frozen across Mads Mikkelsen’s face is not. (David Ehrlich, IndieWire) There are no cut corners, no overly blatant only-in-the-movies gambits. Mikkelsen’s stranded pilot has little to rely on beyond his will, so we feel at every step that he could truly be us. (Owen Gleiberman, Variety)

Director's Biography
Joe Penna
Joe Penna was born in São Paulo, Brazil, in 1987, and now is based in Los Angeles. He began his career on YouTube, where he has garnered nearly 3 million subscribers for his channel MysteryGuitarMan. He is a director and writer of TV series and several shorts, such as “Instant Getaway“ (2014) and “Beyond (2015). "Arctic“ is his first feature film and premiered in Cannes. 

Film Selection: Arctic (2018) - Beyond (2015, short) - Instant Getaway (2014, short) - Meridian (2012, short) 

Nachtsicht | Night Sight 2019
Joe Penna
Island 2018
color
97 minutes
English
OV with German subtitles
Screenplay Joe Penna, Ryan Morrison
Cinematography Tómas Örn Tómasson
Editing Ryan Morrison
Music Joseph Trapanese
With Mads Mikkelsen, María Thelma Smáradôttir
Producer(s) Noah C. Haeussner, Christopher Lemole, Tim Zajaros, Martha De Laurentiis, Manu Gargi, Einar Thornsteinsson
Production
Armory Films, The Joker Films, XYZ Films
World Sales
XYZ Films
Trailer
Website
Austrian Premiere
Austrian Rights
Koch Films
World Premiere
Cannes Film Festival 2018
Austrian Rights
Koch Films

Weltpremiere / World Premiere
Cannes Film Festival 2018

Premierenstatus / Premiere Status 
Austrian Premiere