“ICE WOMEN” dismantles the male-dominated narrative of Arctic research and exposes its colonial and patriarchal structures. For over a century, the Arctic was portrayed as a “discovered” space—from the perspective of white men who claimed territories that
had long been inhabited and culturally rooted. The film shifts the focus to the women whose knowledge, resilience, and scientific work were systematically overlooked, thereby fundamentally questioning what we mean by “exploration.”

The film centers on three extraordinary pioneers: Josephine Peary, who gave birth to a child in the ice while her husband sought fame, and who discovered her own creative power in the isolation of Northwest Greenland; Ada Blackjack, an Iñupiat seamstress who survived alone on Wrangel Island after a failed expedition, sustained by her concern for her sick son; and Louise Arner Boyd, a wealthy explorer and self-taught scientist who financed and led seven major Arctic expeditions, combining scientific precision
with innovative technology and poetic imagery.