''Ice and the Sky'' (french: La Glace et le ciel, also known as ''Antarctica: Ice and Sky'') is a 2015 French

documentary film A documentary film or documentary is a non-fictional film, motion-picture intended to "document reality, primarily for the purposes of instruction, education or maintaining a Recorded history, historical record". Bill Nichols (film critic), Bil ...

directed by

Luc Jacquet Luc Jacquet (born 5 December 1967) is a French film director and screenwriter. He wrote and directed the film ''March of the Penguins'', which won an Oscar for Best Documentary Feature in 2005 and received a nomination for the Writers Guild of A ...

about the work of

Claude Lorius Lorius (born 1932) is a French glaciologist. He is director emeritus of research at CNRS. He was the director of the Laboratoire de glaciologie et géophysique de l'environnement in Grenoble from 1983 to 1988. He has taken part in more than 20 po ...

, who began studying Antarctic ice in 1957, and, in 1965, was the first scientist to be concerned about

global warming In common usage, climate change describes global warming—the ongoing increase in global average temperature—and its effects on Earth's climate system. Climate change in a broader sense also includes previous long-term changes to E ...

. The film was selected to close the

2015 Cannes Film Festival The 68th Cannes Film Festival was held from 13 to 24 May 2015. Joel and Ethan Coen were the Presidents of the Jury for the main competition. It was the first time that two people chaired the jury. Since the Coen brothers each received a separate ...

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* * 2015 films 2015 documentary films French documentary films 2010s French-language films Documentary films about global warming Documentary films about Antarctica Films directed by Luc Jacquet 2010s French films {{climate-change-doc-film-stub