Cool spots
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 stared queuing up to see films in the new drive-in ice cinema! “We wanted to create a different film experience,” says Hakon lssat Vars, director of the Sami Film Festival. “The entire cinema is made from ice and snow. We have built a snow amphitheater with reindeer skins to sit on, and the actual screen is made from ice, too ”