‘The Mom and the Bear’ Canadian-Korean Indie Comedy Movie Trailer
by Alex Billington November 24, 2025Source: YouTube
“Do you assume that we’re good dad and mom?” Dekanalog has revealed the official US trailer for an acclaimed indie movie from Canada titled The Mom and the Bear, made by gifted Canadian-Chinese language filmmaker Johnny Ma. The movie premiered on the 2024 Toronto Movie Competition final 12 months and it additionally performed at a number of different festivals and is lastly opening in restricted launch (within the US) quickly. Within the snow-swept metropolis of Winnipeg, college trainer Sumi is hospitalized after a fall. On listening to the information, her anxious mom, Sara, flies over from Seoul to be along with her comatose daughter — as soon as Sara units herself up within the younger girl’s residence, she discovers she would not actually know Sumi in any respect. As Sara meddles in Sumi’s life through a courting app, she finally ends up on a journey that may go away her endlessly modified. “A stylized, whimsical narrative of crossed wires, secret lives, and conflicting agendas, the movie is ‘a uniquely charming comedy about one girl’s quest to find extra about herself.” Starring Kim Ho-jung, Lee Received-jae, Jonathan Kim, Amara Pedroso, Kalyn Bomback, Susan Hanson, Samantha Kendrick, and Leere Park as Sumi. Appears amusing & heartfelt.
This is the official trailer (+ poster) for Johnny Ma’s movie The Mom and the Bear, from YouTube:
After 26-year-old Sumi (Leere Park) suffers an accident on the streets of wintry Winnipeg, Canada, her overbearing mom Sara (Kim Ho-jung) flies in from Seoul to be by her now comatose daughter’s facet. Determined to make sure Sumi could have somebody to take care of her sooner or later, Sara embarks on a mission to catfish an acceptable (ideally Korean) husband earlier than her daughter wakes up. Nevertheless, as Sara meddles in Sumi’s life through a courting app, she finally ends up on a journey that may go away her endlessly modified. The Mom and the Bear is directed by Canadian-Chinese language filmmaker Johnny Ma, director of the movies Previous Stone and To Stay to Sing beforehand. Produced by Niv Fichman and Juan de Dios LarraÃn. This initially premiered on the 2024 Toronto Movie Competition final 12 months. Dekanalog will debut Johnny Ma’s The Mom and the Bear movie in choose US theaters beginning January 2nd, 2026 early subsequent 12 months. For more information, head to their official website.
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