Le Secret des banquises (2016)
Directed by Marie Madinier

Film Synopsis

For many years, Professor Quignard has been leading a dedicated research team to explore the immunising potential of a rare protein extracted from penguins.  At the present stage of the research tests are only being performed on mice, but a rival American team has already moved on to testing on humans.  It looks as if Quignard's efforts have been for nothing.  Christophine, a self-effacing lab assistant who is secretly in love with the professor, cannot allow this to happen.  With no one knowing, she injects herself with a sample of the potentially revolutionary protein, knowing that as she does so her future prospects will be inextricably tied up with those of the man she has long worshipped from afar...