90 minutes.

ICEMAN is a poetic and deeply human documentary that intertwines the stark beauty of the Arctic with the extraordinary life of Swiss-American climate scientist Konrad “Koni” Steffen. For more than three decades, Steffen devoted himself to studying the fragile and rapidly changing polar regions, becoming one of the world’s leading voices on climate change.

In August 2020, the scientific community was shaken by the news that Steffen had vanished while working on Greenland’s vast ice sheet. For a man who understood the dangers of the ice better than almost anyone, his disappearance raised haunting questions: how could the very landscape he studied so carefully claim his life?

Through intimate conversations with colleagues, friends, and family, ICEMAN paints a portrait of a charismatic and driven scientist whose relentless curiosity pushed him to the farthest edges of the world. Those closest to him reflect on the passion that first drew him north, the risks he accepted in pursuit of knowledge, and the profound impact of his work documenting the Arctic’s slow transformation under climate change.

Returning to the frozen landscapes that both inspired and ultimately claimed him, the film becomes a meditation on devotion, discovery, and the fragile balance between humanity and nature. ICEMAN is not only the story of a scientist, but of a life shaped by wonder, obsession, and the ice that was both his calling and his final resting place.