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Festival Program / Talking in Nature
Where Snow and Ice Once Were
Where Snow and Ice Once Were
PROGRAM
A decade of witnessing one polar bear mother's survival, love, and loss.
Svalbard is warming faster than anywhere else on Earth. Frost Without Snow and Ice follows a filmmaker who spent ten years filming Frost, a polar bear mother living there. It is a record of one life raising cubs in a habitat shrinking as fast as the ice melts away.
Following the screening, a talk program will be held with Nam Jong-young, Director of the Climate Change and Animal Research Institute, an environmental journalist who worked at Hankyoreh from 2001 to 2023, bringing climate change and animal rights issues into public discourse. Join us for an in-depth conversation on the gap between humans and animals, and what we are quietly losing.
■ Date/Time: Sep. 20(Sun), 2026 13:30
■ Venue: Alps Cinema 2
■ Participants
Nam Jong-young (Director, Climate Change and Animal Research Institute)
Frost Without Snow and Ice
Norway | 2026 | 95min | Color | Documentary
For ten years, a filmmaker follows polar bear Frost – a mother struggling to raise her cubs in a rapidly changing Arctic. A story of survival and love, conflict and loss from Svalbard, the fastest-warming place on earth.
GUEST
Nam Jong-young
An environmental journalist and director of the Institute for Climate Change and Animals. He worked at The Hankyoreh from 2001 to 2023. He studied human–animal relations at the University of Bristol, and his interests centre on climate change and the systems by which humans govern animals. He counts two achievements as the most rewarding of his life: his "Crossing the Earth" trilogy, which travelled between the Arctic, the Antarctic and the equator to document the humans and animals suffering under climate change, and the articles that returned Jedol — an Indo-Pacific bottlenose dolphin performing in an aquarium — to his home waters.
SCHEDULE
09.20
13:30
Alps Cinema 2
