Polar Bear

On a Saturday morning, 39-year-old Heriberto takes his former elementary school friends, Flor and Trujillo, on a ride across Mexico City to attend a class reunion. On the road, the three of them recall good old times until gradually Flor and Trujillo start becoming the bullies they once were with Heriberto as kids. Yet today, 25 years later, Heriberto will strike back, or won’t he? "By any measure, one of the year’s most ambitious Mexican films." (Variety) "OSO POLAR is an emotional roller-coaster!" (CineNT) Polar Bear came to me in a dream. I dreamt I went back to elementary school and encountered the people who bullied me as a kid. I left the school premises in a hurry, unable to understand why I had submitted myself to that pain again." (Director's statement)

Keywords

  • Screen: Latin America
  • Screen: Mexico
  • Sooner Exclusives
  • Sooner Exclusives: Stories that Matter
  • community
  • conflict
  • friendship
  • latin america
  • road movie
  • travel

Actors

  • Luis Alberti
  • Humberto Busto
  • Marcelo Ceron

Director

  • Marcelo Tobar

Drama


1h 10min


16+

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Mexico
2017
Meeting his old school "friends" reveals old wounds. But Heriberto has changed...

Meeting his old school "friends" reveals old wounds. But Heriberto has changed...


On a Saturday morning, 39-year-old Heriberto takes his former elementary school friends, Flor and Trujillo, on a ride across Mexico City to attend a class reunion.


On the road, the three of them recall good old times until gradually Flor and Trujillo start becoming the bullies they once were with Heriberto as kids. Yet today, 25 years later, Heriberto will strike back, or won’t he?


"By any measure, one of the year’s most ambitious Mexican films." (Variety) "OSO POLAR is an emotional roller-coaster!" (CineNT)


Polar Bear came to me in a dream. I dreamt I went back to elementary school and encountered the people who bullied me as a kid. I left the school premises in a hurry, unable to understand why I had submitted myself to that pain again." (Director's statement)

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Cast & Crew