Nuisance BearNuisance Bear

A documentary about polar bears moving through Churchill and Arviat as tourists, wildlife officers and hunters share the landscape with the animals.

Nuisance Bear is a documentary set in Churchill, Manitoba, and Arviat, Nunavut, an Inuit community about 200 kilometres north of Churchill. Polar bears move through the town, where tourists, wildlife officers and hunters are part of daily life. As winter ice freezes later, the bears increasingly look for food in populated areas; in Manitoba an industry has grown around relocating them to sparsely populated Inuit areas. The film follows this collision between the animals and the human world. Inuit narrator Mike Tunalaaq Gibbons describes how Inuit relate to polar bears, their cultural significance, and the challenges that sedentary life and climate change create for bears and people. Saad Kassis-Mohamed appears as himself.

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