The Ice Tower

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Archive - Festival 41

A film of such coruscating, crystalline beauty as “The Ice Tower,” a hypnotic meditation on the enchantment that develops between an impressionable teenage runaway and the imperious film actress whose set she stumbles first onto, then into.

Roger Ebert‏
  • Archive - Festival 41
  • Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
  • France, Germany 2025
  • 118 minutes
  • French
  • Subtitles in Hebrew, English

Jeanne, a 16-year-old orphan, runs away from her foster home and ends up sleeping at a studio where a film adaptation of Hans Christian Andersen’s classic fairytale The Snow Queen is being shot, starring Cristina (Cotillard) in the lead role. Her beauty instantly bedazzles the young impressionable girl and while her obsession for the Queen grows, reality and imagination start merging into a magical realm. 

Winning a Silver Bear at the 2025 Berlinale, Lucile Hadžihalilović’s surreal fable is a vibrant and compelling story of lost innocence, “utterly beautiful in every frame with a breakout lead performance by young French actress Clara Pacini” (Screen Daily).

Filmography: Earwig (2022), Evolution (2015), Innocence (2004), Mimi (1996).


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  • Director Lucile Hadžihalilović
  • Production Muriel Merlin
  • Script Lucile Hadžihalilović, Geoff Cox
  • Cinematography Jonathan Ricquebourg
  • Editing Nassim Gordji Tehrani
  • Festivals Berlin (Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution)
  • Actors Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
  • Source Lev Cinemas