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For Christmas Eve, the Sundance "trailer of the day" is as close to the North Pole as the festival is going to get.
The Norwegian adventure drama "Operation Arctic" follows Julia (Kaisa Gurine Antonsen), 13, and her 8-year-old twin siblings Ida and Sindre (Leonora Valestrand Eike and Leonard Valestrand Eike), who try to tag along on a helicopter to see their parents — and end up are left on a deserted island, where they confront winter weather, hungry polar bears, and loneliness in order to survive.
"Operation Arctic" will screen in the Sundance Kids section of the 2015 Sundance Film Festival.