Local boy, Peter, is trying to find the source of the metallic sound that haunts the village. When he shares his footage with an old woman it sparks memories of a bear that roamed the hills during her childhood.
Language: English
Subtitles: Italian
Director
Zhang & Knight
Zhang + Knight are a LGBTQ+ London-based directing duo whose soulful films explore themes of cultural identity through folklore. They began their career in music videos and are now making narrative work.
Cast
Anna Calder Marshall, Lewis Cornay, Ciarán Hinds
Awards
Anthropocene MuSe Award
Ed. 2026
The Anthropocene MUSE Award is presented to the film A Bear Remembers for its ability to portray the Anthropocene as a loss that is not merely environmental, but also cultural and symbolic.
Using a contemplative and evocative style, the film portrays the erasure of memories, knowledge, and relationships connecting communities to their environment, transforming the ecological crisis into a crisis of imagination and social cohesion. However, the act of remembering opens up a possibility: the ending suggests a fragile yet significant form of reconnection, where memory becomes an act of resistance and a starting point for reimagining human and the non-human relationships.
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