Melt (Melt)

In a remote small town in Canada's far north, the inhabitants celebrate a joyous wedding at temperatures of -29 degrees Celsius. It is one of the many impressive and somewhat bizarre locations featured in Nikolaus Geyrhalter's Melt, in which the white landscapes appear endless. Along the Tateyama Kurobe Alpine Route in Japan, bulldozers carve out spectacular, 16-metre-high walls of snow in order to build corridors specifically to attract tourists, while the celebrated ski region Val-d'Isère in southern France uses artificial snow to create a winter wonderland. Filmed between 2021 and 2025, Melt preserves some of the world's most compelling frozen landscapes for the archives of the future, thereby addressing some of the greatest environmental and political questions of our age.