Mubi Sets Theatrical Release for Sundance Prize Winning Doc ‘Nuisance Bear’ – Film News in Brief
Mubi will bring the Sundance-winning documentary *Nuisance Bear* to cinemas, beginning in Los Angeles on 6 November and expanding to New York, Canada and the UK on 4 December. The film follows a polar bear navigating tourists, wildlife officers and hunters as delayed freezing linked to climate change brings bears closer to human settlements.
Directed and filmed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, the documentary won the 2026 Sundance US Grand Jury Prize for Documentary and the Werner Herzog Film Award. It is also nominated for five Critics Choice Documentary Awards. The article also reports on other film industry news, including 35mm screenings of *Wild Horse Nine*, Proof Inc.’s first New York studio, and Quentin Tarantino’s planned AFI Fest appearance.
- Mubi sets a November and December cinema release for *Nuisance Bear*.
- The documentary follows a polar bear amid growing human-wildlife encounters.
- It won Sundance’s 2026 US documentary grand jury prize.
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Mubi is a film distributor and streaming service that also releases films in cinemas. Sundance is a major film festival in the United States, where documentary prizes can bring wider attention to a film.
*Nuisance Bear*, directed and filmed by Jack Weisman and Gabriela Osio Vanden, follows a polar bear encountering tourists, wildlife officers and hunters. The film connects these encounters with changing conditions in the Arctic: later sea-ice formation can bring bears closer to human settlements as they search for food.
The story sits at the meeting point of wildlife management, tourism and climate change. It matters because closer contact between people and bears can create risks for both, while documentaries can shape how audiences understand those pressures.