The movie
My Bear Story + Between Breaths
In My Bear Story and Between Breaths, we follow young bears in the rugged wilderness of the Russian Far East and Spitsbergen. Two moving nature documentaries about their struggle to survive and the fragile bond between humans and nature.
Description
My Bear Story
Zoologist Sergey Kolchin has spent years rehabilitating orphaned bear cubs in the forests of the Russian Far East, preparing them for a return to the wild. Living alongside the cubs, he uncovered new insights into the elusive Asiatic black bear and captured remarkable footage of their lives. Journey into the rare, still-intact forests of the Ussuri taiga through the eyes of these young bears, as they learn to survive alongside tigers and brown bears. But as human activity destroys their habitat and poaching threatens their future, survival in this mysterious wilderness is becoming increasingly uncertain.
Between Breaths
For many years, Florian Ledoux has lived and filmed on the sea ice of Svalbard. One day, a young polar bear crosses his path. He names her Grinch. Orphaned too soon, she grows up alone on the ice. Florian follows her evolution, witnessing a fragile life in the heart of a changing world. Between them, there is no contact, only silence, distance, and presence. Yet a bond slowly forms. Until the day Grinch disappears. Between Breaths revisits this pivotal encounter, a film about memory, loss, and the fragile, invisible ties that bind us to the wild.
