Arctic

Arctic (2018), directed by Joe Penna, is a survival drama you can watch online on iFILM. A pilot named Overgård has been stranded somewhere above the Arctic Circle for weeks after his plane went down. He has built a system: fishing holes, shelter, a distress signal scraped into the snow. He is alive. Then a second crash changes the calculation.

Mads Mikkelsen carries almost the entire film in silence. His co-star Maria Thelma Smáradóttir is largely unconscious, which means Mikkelsen has to show every decision on his face — whether to stay with the wreck or try a march of unknown length toward a dot on a map that may or may not mean safety. Shot on location in Iceland, the landscape is a character: indifferent, enormous, beautiful in a way that offers no comfort.

Joe Penna's feature debut strips the survival genre down to its core: one man, one choice, no backstory required. For viewers who want a film where the stakes are physical and immediate, with no manufactured sentimentality — stream Arctic (2018) online on iFILM.