Have you ever imagined what it would be like to watch a film in a drive-in ice
cinema? Well, believe it or not, that’s exactly what I did last week in Kautokeino,
Norway. Kautokeino is a small town about 450 km north of the Arctic Circle, so it’s
not exactly the typical warm and sunny holiday destination. Temperatures rarely rise
above zero in winter, so the snow never melts. However, people have started
queuing up to see films in the new drive-in ice cinema! “We wanted to create a
different film experience,” says Håkon Issát Vars, director of the Sami Film Festival.
“The entire cinema is made from ice andsnow.We’vebuilt a snow amphitheatre with
reindeer skins to sit on, and the actual screen is made from ice, too.