It’s Anthropocene MUSE Award’s day!

Published 26/04/2026

The award went to “A Bear Remembers” by Zhang & Knight.

The second indipendent award of this 74th edition of the Trento Film Festival will be assigned today: the Anthropocene MUSE Award will be presented during the screening of the winning film, A Bear Remembers by Zhang & Knigh (UK/2024/20′), directly in the theater, in Auditorium 1 of the Cinema Modena at 2.45 pm.

The Anthropocene MUSE Award is established by the MUSE Science Museum of Trento and it is awarded to the work that best explores the relationship between mankind and the rest of the natural world in the Anthropocene era. The jury, composed of Stefano Bruno Galli (President), Massimo Bernardi, Davide Dalpiaz, Luca Scoz, Fabio Pupin, and Elisabetta Filosi, shared the following motivation: “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”.

Zhang + Knight are a London-based LGBTQ+ filmmaking duo whose films explore themes of cultural identity through folklore. They began their careers with music videos and now make narrative works.