2024 Festival Opening Night Presentation and US Premiere Screening:
Co-presented with Smithsonian's National Museum of Natural History
Opening remarks given by US Rep. Adam Schiff. Screening followed by a conversation with the film's Academy Award-winning director, Luc Jacquet, moderated by Juliet Eilperin (Washington Post, Deputy Climate and Environment Editor).
Screened in partnership with French in Motion.
The few thousand kilometers that separate Patagonia from the South Pole is a fascinating and hypnotic journey for explorers. Some even speak of an addiction, “the Antarctic bite”. The March of the Penguins director Luc Jacquet has been experiencing it for 30 years. This time, he comes back for a visually-striking adventure, offering us images what one cannot convey with words. Almost like a final journey to a vanishing continent and its inhabitants.