26 minutes that'll wreck your eco-anxiety and make you weirdly protective of ice.
In a town on the edge of the Canadian Arctic, polar bears are waiting longer for the sea ice on the bay to form. It's a dangerous change for a place known as the polar bear capital of the world.
Cinematography
Bears waiting in liminal, devastating beauty
Production
Access to Churchill's dangerous waiting game
Writing
Gill's narration: science with lived warmth
Trivia, insights & behind the scenes
Churchill's 'polar bear jail'—where problem bears get detained—reveals the absurdity of managing climate collapse with 1990s protocols.
The film silently centers Cree and Dene knowledge of Hudson Bay cycles, though Victoria Gill's British narration dominates the frame.
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