THE INCREDIBLE SNOW WOMAN: East Coast premiere @ Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series

East Coast premiere | Directed by Sébastien Betbeder
101 mins. | France, Greenland | French, Greenlandic with subtitles | 2025

Belmont World Film's 24th International Film Series, "Thicker than water," explores the ties that bind—and sometimes limit us— through an intimate and far-reaching collection of stories about families in all their complexity. Across cultures and continents, these films ask what we inherit, what we carry, and what we owe one another.

The series unfolds over eight consecutive Mondays through May 18 at the West Newton Cinema, at 7:00 PM. After a two-week break, the series returns on June 1 with three additional remarkable films in recognition of World Refugee Awareness Month and Pride Month.

All of the selections were official entries at the world’s major film festivals, with several receiving top honors.

In The Incredible Snow Woman, a 46-year-old Arctic explorer known as "The Incredible Snow Woman," unexpectedly returns to her childhood home in the Jura mountains to reunite with her brothers. Unable to face her own mortality, she returns to Greenland one last time in this impassioned comedy-drama.

Speaker: WBUR film critic Erin Trahan