《Trouble Bear》(Nuisance Bear, tentative translation) released a new trailer, the Sundance award-winning documentary follows polar bears through a small human town

The town of Churchill in Manitoba, Canada, calls itself the Polar Bear Capital of the World.Every autumn, hundreds of polar bears migrate north along the ancient route and pass through this town.Tourists come here to see bears, and when bears wander into human territory, they may be considered a nuisance that needs to be removed.

MUBI has released a new trailer for the documentary Nuisance Bear (tentative translation).Gabriella Ocasio Vanden and Jack Weisman follow a young polar bear through a world of tourists, trucks, sirens, traps, wildlife managers and hunters.Its migration has to pass through the routes and boundaries set by these people, and it will also encounter capture and relocation.

The film premiered at the 2026 Sundance Film Festival and won the Jury Prize in the American Documentary Competition.

The entire film was shot in northern Canada.Climate warming delays sea ice, allowing polar bears to stay on land longer and make it easier for them to approach residential areas.An Inuit elder who has experienced personal tragedy provides another narrative perspective for the relationship between humans and bears in the film.The words in the trailer are: “For generations, we have lived in a world where we keep distance from each other.That world no longer exists.”

The town relies on bear-watching tourism to make money, but the daily life of the bears is constantly interrupted by observation, photography, management and removal.The two directors made the bear the protagonist of the film, documenting how it moves within the system built around it.In its award speech, the Sundance jury specifically mentioned that the film also touches on climate change, Aboriginal traditions and commercial expansion, as well as the complexities of the relationship between humans and nature.

The two directors shot a short film of the same name in 2021 and now developed it into their first feature-length documentary.Michael Cord, Teddy Leifer, Will N. Miller and two directors serve as producers. The feature film is 90 minutes long.FirstShowing reported that the distribution arrangement was transferred from A24 to MUBI, and the new trailer was also released on the MUBI official channel.

There is a date difference in the current release materials: the US preview report lists the opening of some theaters on November 6, but the accompanying poster states that it will be released in theaters in December. The specific schedule is still to be further clarified by the distributor.The trailer's question of "who is the real trouble" runs through this observation of the polar bear's situation.