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What happens to all those fearless and fearsome wild girls once they grow up, but do not become tame? Some of them, like their sister-tropes, manic pixie dream girls, learn their lesson over the course of an indie dramedy that could play at either Sundance or Tribeca. The others try to cheat death repeatedly until it is one time too many. The rest have to wrestle with an adversary more fearsome than themselves – life. We learned from the movies so far that film stars don’t die in Liverpool, but why would explorers not go to find serenity and a peaceful death in the frost around the North Pole?

This is where we first meet Coline (Blanche Gardin), the heroine of Sébastien Betbeder’s eighth feature The Incredible Snow Woman. She is cross-country skiing through the snowy valleys of Greenland on one of her expeditions, facing some bad...

Be For Films (“Anais in Love”) has boarded international sales rights to “The Incredible Snow Woman,” a Greenland-set movie headlined by popular French comedian Blanche Gardin, ahead of the its world premiere at the Berlin Film Festival.

Helmed by Sebastien Betbeder (“Inupiluk”), the movie stars Gardin as Coline Morel, a one-of-a-kind explorer and expert on the Great North. The cast is completed by Cesar-winning Philippe Katerine (“Sink or Swim”) and Bastien Bouillon (“The Night of the 12th”), Ole Eliassen (“Journey to Greenland”) and Martin Jensen.

In “The Incredible Snow Woman,” Coline Morel (Gardin) “turns up unannounced in her native village in the Jura mountains to visit her two brothers Basile and Lolo, whom she hasn’t seen in years. While there, she stumbles upon Christophe, her first love, a wholly unexpected encounter; learns that she’s been fired; and is dumped by her boyfriend. Utterly confused and unable to reveal...