Frost ohne Schnee und Eis

• NO 2026
• 94 min
• Director: Asgeir Helgestad
• Age rating: 6 and up
• Documentary: Original version with German voiceover and subtitles where applicable

Screenings:

• Thu., September 17, 2026 – Sun., September 20, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
• Tue., September 22, 2026 – Wed., September 23, 2026 at 5:00 p.m.
• Thu., September 24, 2026 – Fri., September 25, 2026 at 6:45 p.m.
• Sun., September 27, 2026 – Tue., September 29, 2026 at 6:45 p.m.

The Svalbard archipelago, located in the North Atlantic, has experienced the fastest rate of warming worldwide over the past decade. Asgeir Helgestad, a filmmaker from Norway, documents the effects of climate change on Frost, a female polar bear who must now raise her cubs without snow or ice.

The Norwegian archipelago of Svalbard in the North Atlantic has become a symbol of climate change: nowhere in the world has the temperature risen faster over the past decade than here in the Arctic. In his powerful film, Norwegian filmmaker Asgeir Helgestad documents the dramatic consequences of this development through the story of a mother polar bear named Frost. In a rapidly changing environment, Frost faces the existential challenge of raising her cubs—without the snow and ice that are vital for polar bears’ survival. The documentary movingly illustrates how climate change does not merely produce abstract statistics, but threatens the lives of individual animals and entire species. Helgestad succeeds in making the global climate crisis tangible and emotionally relatable through Frost’s story.