“Nuisance Bear” is blessed with what is surely the cutest opening shot at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival, but don’t be fooled: This is no cuddly nature documentary.
Directors Gabriela Osio Vanden and Jack Weisman use the image of a mama bear and her cubs to draw us in, and then they pull straight back to the animals’ unsettling reality. Though their ancestors have migrated along the shores of Canada’s Hudson Bay for thousands of years, this generation faces all new challenges. It’s no spoiler to note that most of them come in human form.
Churchill, Manitoba calls itself the “Polar Bear Capital of the World,” which means…
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