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The Mother and the Bear (2026)
Directed by Johnny Ma
“One heart sleeps, another awakens.”
Comedy, Drama · 1h 40m
When her daughter falls into a temporary coma after an accident at her home in Winnipeg, Sara, an overbearing Korean mother travels from Seoul to Canada and vows to keep her daughter safe forever by catfishing a husband for her online.
Cast
Kim Ho-jung
Lee Won-jae
Jonathan Kim
Amara Pedroso
Kalyn Bomback
Susan Hanson
Samantha Kendrick
Leere Park
Crew
- Director
- Johnny Ma
- Writer
- Johnny Ma
- Director of Photography
- Inti Briones
- Original Music Composer
- Marie-Hélène Leclerc-Delorme
- Editor
- Valeria Hernández
- Producer
- Niv Fichman, Juan de Dios Larraín
Details
- Release date
- 2026-01-02
- Runtime
- 1h 40m
- Genres
- Comedy, Drama
- Original language
- EN
- Spoken languages
- English, Korean
- Countries
- Canada, United States of America, Chile
- Production
- Rhombus Media, Fabula, Olive House Films, Ashland Hill Media Finance, Crave, CBC Films, Thin Stuff Productions