15/09/2025 - The series, co-produced by Movistar Plus+ and Arte France, features a cast led by Eduard Fernández, María Rodríguez Soto, Miki Esparbé, Pol López, Nora Navas, and Àlex Monner

Eduard Fernández and brothers Sanchez-Cabezudo on the set of Killing a Bear (© Bárbara Sánchez Palomero)

Killing a Bear is a six-episode series created by brothers Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo (known for the feature film The Night of the Sunflowers [+see also:
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The cast is led by four-time Goya winner Eduard Fernández (most recently awarded this year for Marco [+see also:
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With a screenplay by Sánchez-Cabezudo and brothers Pablo and Daniel Remón (who previously worked together on Nos vemos en otra vida) and inspired by real events, Killing a Bear begins with the mysterious death of the bear of the title in the Aran Valley during the coronavirus lockdown. Following this incident, Spain launched an unprecedented judicial investigation in which the animal's death was treated as a murder. This event exposes deep tensions between the valley’s inhabitants, environmentalism and European policy. The suspects are the inhabitants of the place, where only a few will fight to prevent the conflict from erupting with irreparable consequences.

Jorge and Alberto Sánchez-Cabezudo explain that "the story of Cachou the bear is a multi-layered case. What seemed like a surreal event turned into a complex portrait of the clash between the local and the global, tradition and the present—a story as unexpected as it was real. Each point of view brings us closer to a conflict that speaks of identity, the environment, and the latent violence in coexistence. Above all, it is an appealing and unusual detective story, where the elements of the genre are upended when the victim turns out to be an animal. An anomalous and even absurd situation that everyone ends up taking very seriously and that, in some way, ends up shaping their lives. It is this serious view of absurd situations, with unpredictable characters who are as excessive as they are real, that sets the tone of the narrative.”

Killing a Bear is a Spanish-French co-production between Movistar Plus+ and Arte France in collaboration with Kubik Films (the Sánchez-Cabezudo brothers’ production company). Its sales are managed by Movistar Plus+ International.

(Translated from Spanish)