Award-Winning Polar Bear Documentary Film 'Nuisance Bear' Trailer

"Who is the real nuisance?" Indeed the important question. Mubi has revealed the trailer for a documentary film titled Nuisance Bear, originally an A24 release that they've sold to Mubi instead. This premiered at the 2026 Sundance FIlm Festival earlier this year where it won the Grand Jury top doc prize. A young polar bear is confronted with the presence of humans during its seasonal migration, as the boundaries between human & animal habitats continue to blur due to worsening climate change. "For generations, we lived in a world where we kept our distance from each other. That world no longer exists." Filmed entirely in northern Canada, Churchill (see Google Maps) calls itself the "polar bear capital of the world." During the autumn, hundreds of bears migrate north, passing through. Based around the story of an old Inuit sage marked by personal tragedy, Nuisance Bear adopts the viewpoint of these "undesirable" neighbors whose path brings them into conflict with modern life. I've seen this doc and it's good but really tragic and sad because these poor bears are just treated as either zoo animals (even in the wild) or game to be hunted. Leave them alone! // Continue Reading ›