Overview
- MUBI released the first trailer for Nuisance Bear and announced theatrical openings in Los Angeles on November 6 and in New York, Canada, and the U.K. on December 4.
- The film was shot in Churchill, Manitoba, and follows polar bears around Hudson Bay to show how delayed sea ice from climate change forces bears closer to towns and people.
- Directors Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden use an immersive, animal-centered camera approach to collapse the distance between audience and bear and to present animals as active agents rather than spectacle.
- Nuisance Bear has won major festival honors, including the Sundance Grand Jury Prize and the 2026 Werner Herzog Film Award, and it received multiple Critics Choice Documentary Award nominations.
- By moving from festivals to wider release, the film is poised to increase public attention on Churchill’s tourism, surveillance, and wildlife-management practices and could prompt more scrutiny of how communities and officials respond to rising human–bear encounters.