The Last Continent

Biologist and filmmaker Jean Lemire, accompanied aboard the schooner Sedna IV by a handpicked team of scientists and filmmakers, dared to experience climate change and its consequences within Antarctica’s icy grip. More than a full year of daring, isolation, danger, intensity: it was a spectacular adventure full of risks and triumphs, joys and perils. The crew was prepared for the worst but faced even worse !

Le Dernier Continent is a tstament to a human adventure at once chilling and inspiring. The film alternates between captivating images of deep serenity and spinetingling sequences in which the ship’s crew finds itself, time and again, on the edge of catastrophe.

Before our eyes, the crew members live out their most exhilarating highs and grimmest lows. With Le Dernier Continent, Jean Lemire earns the viewer’s admiration on every level: majestic landscapes, fascinating wildlife, a courageous and sensitive crew, relevant and troubling environmental information, exceptional filmmaking. The film is a worthy tribute to the courageous Sedna IV mission it documents, a voyage to the heart of the last continent: Antarctica.

Directed by Jean Lemire
Produced by Glacialis

Canada

2007 – 105 mins – Documentary / Adventures
French – English narrative / English subtitles