#FIRSTLOOK: “NUISANCE BEAR” DOCUMENTARY COMING TO MUBI CANADA

MUBI, the global distributor, streaming service, and production company, is pleased to announce the North American theatrical release dates for the award-winning documentary NUISANCE BEAR, coming to theatres in Los Angeles on November 6th and will open in New York, Canada and the UK on December 4th.

NUISANCE BEAR won the US Grand Jury Prize for Documentary at the Sundance Film Festival 2026, the Werner Herzog Film Award 2026, is nominated for five Critics Choice Documentary Awards, and has won numerous other international awards. NUISANCE BEAR is directed and filmed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, produced by Jack Weisman, Gabriela Osio Vanden, Will N. Miller, Teddy Leifer, and Michael Code, edited by Andres Landau, and the music is composed by Cristóbal Tapia De Veer.

Filmmakers Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden said, “Ultimately, our aim is to collapse the distance between audience and subject. By immersing viewers in the bear’s perspective while exposing the human forces shaping every step of its path, we challenge them to see this landscape, both natural and political, as a shared and increasingly contested space. Nuisance Bear invites us to reconsider who truly belongs here and what coexistence demands of all of us.”

Arianna Bocco, Global SVP of Distribution and Acquisitions, MUBI said “From the time we saw the film, we were mesmerized by not only the incredible story of the nuisance bear, but what it says about humanity. The film is beautiful and profound – and we are thrilled to be working with Jack and Gabriela on their stunning feature debut.”

SYNOPSIS
For thousands of years, polar bears have migrated along the shores of Hudson Bay in northern Canada. Today, that ancient rhythm collides with a human world of tourism, surveillance, and control. NUISANCE BEAR immerses viewers in the experience of a polar bear forced to navigate tourists, wildlife officers, and hunters as climate change delays the freeze and pushes bears closer to human settlements. When a sacred predator is branded a “nuisance,” it becomes unclear who truly belongs in this shared landscape.

Shot in Churchill, Manitoba–the self–styled “POLAR BEAR CAPITAL OF THE WORLD” – with striking intimacy and scale, the film observes bears that are constantly monitored, photographed, and redirected. In tracing this uneasy coexistence, NUISANCE BEAR becomes a meditation on how humans manage, commodify, and redefine wildlife—overturning the conventions of the nature documentary and reframing animals not as spectacle, but as active agents in a rapidly changing world.