In the shrinking forests of Borneo, a young sun bear named Itam is rescued from a life behind bars. Orphaned by poachers and raised by humans, she is given a second chance: to return to the wild she barely remembers. But the world she’s being released into is vanishing, cleared, burned, and silenced in the name of progress.

Itam is an intimate portrait of one animal’s struggle to reclaim her wild instincts in a rainforest that may not be waiting much longer.  Through the eyes of Southeast Asia’s most overlooked bear, the film becomes a meditation on what it means to belong, to a place, to a species, to a future that’s slipping away.

This is not just a story of conservation, it’s a quiet, aching plea for coexistence. Itam invites us to listen before the forest goes silent.  A story of one bear becomes a mirror for all of us, asking, while there’s still time, what kind of world we are willing to leave behind.

Itam: A Sun Bear Story is coming to a cinema near you in 2026.