France/Germany
THE ICE TOWER
117 MIN
2025
Colder than ice, her kiss pierces the heart… The 1970s. Runaway Jeanne falls under the spell of Cristina, enigmatic star of The Snow Queen, a film being shot in the studio where she has taken refuge. A mutual fascination grows between the actress and the girl.
Cast & Crew
Producer: Muriel Merlin
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Script: Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Alanté Kavaïté
Director of Photography: Jonathan Ricquebourg
Production Design: Julia Irribarria, Sarah Deweppe
Sound: Etienne Haug, Ken Yasumoto
Editing: Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
Production. Sutor Kolonko, Davis Films, Arte France Cinéma, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 38 Productions
Awards
Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlinale, 2025
Cast & Crew
Producer: Muriel Merlin
Director: Lucile Hadžihalilović
Script: Geoff Cox, Lucile Hadžihalilović, Alanté Kavaïté
Director of Photography: Jonathan Ricquebourg
Production Design: Julia Irribarria, Sarah Deweppe
Sound: Etienne Haug, Ken Yasumoto
Editing: Nassim Gordji-Tehrani
Cast: Marion Cotillard, Clara Pacini, August Diehl, Gaspar Noé
Production. Sutor Kolonko, Davis Films, Arte France Cinéma, Bayerischer Rundfunk, 38 Productions
Awards
Silver Berlin Bear for Outstanding Artistic Contribution, Berlinale, 2025
Lucile Hadžihalilović
Lucile Hadžihalilović spent her childhood and adolescence in Morocco, before moving to Paris where she studied art history, then film at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (now la Fémis). In the early 1990s, she founded the production company Les Cinemas de la Zone with Gaspar Noé, with whom she worked on Carne and Seul contre tous. Their collaboration continued with her contribution to the screenplay of Noé’s Enter the Void. In 1996, Hadžihalilović produced, wrote, edited and directed La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (Mimi), a 52-minute film that screened in Un Certain Regard, at Cannes. In 2004, she wrote and directed her feature debut, Innocence, based on Frank Wedekind’s Mine-Haha, and starring Marion Cotillard. The film won the Best New Director Prize at San Sebastian IFF, amongst numerous others. In 2015, she directed Evolution, co-written with Alanté Kavaïté. The film premiered at Toronto IFF and won the Special Jury Prize and Best Cinematography Prize (for Manuel Dacosse) at San Sebastian IFF. In 2022, Earwig, based on the eponymous novel by Brian Catling, co-written with Geoff Cox and starring Paul Hilton, Romola Garai and Alex Lawther won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian. Hadžihalilovic has also directed the short films Good Boys (1998), Nectar (2014) and De natura (2018), all of which have been selected in numerous festivals. Her fourth feature, The Ice Tower, which reunited her with Marion Cotillard, premiered at the 2025 Berlin FF.
Filmography
La première mort de Nono (short, 1987), Mimi (1997), Good Boys (short, 1998), Innocence (2004), Nectar (short, 2014), Evolution (2015), De natura (short, 2018), Earwig (2022), The Ice Tower (2025).
Lucile Hadžihalilović spent her childhood and adolescence in Morocco, before moving to Paris where she studied art history, then film at the Institut des Hautes Etudes Cinématographiques (now la Fémis). In the early 1990s, she founded the production company Les Cinemas de la Zone with Gaspar Noé, with whom she worked on Carne and Seul contre tous. Their collaboration continued with her contribution to the screenplay of Noé’s Enter the Void. In 1996, Hadžihalilović produced, wrote, edited and directed La Bouche de Jean-Pierre (Mimi), a 52-minute film that screened in Un Certain Regard, at Cannes. In 2004, she wrote and directed her feature debut, Innocence, based on Frank Wedekind’s Mine-Haha, and starring Marion Cotillard. The film won the Best New Director Prize at San Sebastian IFF, amongst numerous others. In 2015, she directed Evolution, co-written with Alanté Kavaïté. The film premiered at Toronto IFF and won the Special Jury Prize and Best Cinematography Prize (for Manuel Dacosse) at San Sebastian IFF. In 2022, Earwig, based on the eponymous novel by Brian Catling, co-written with Geoff Cox and starring Paul Hilton, Romola Garai and Alex Lawther won the Special Jury Prize at San Sebastian. Hadžihalilovic has also directed the short films Good Boys (1998), Nectar (2014) and De natura (2018), all of which have been selected in numerous festivals. Her fourth feature, The Ice Tower, which reunited her with Marion Cotillard, premiered at the 2025 Berlin FF.
Filmography
La première mort de Nono (short, 1987), Mimi (1997), Good Boys (short, 1998), Innocence (2004), Nectar (short, 2014), Evolution (2015), De natura (short, 2018), Earwig (2022), The Ice Tower (2025).
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