Trade Secret

Trade Secret is a gripping exposé of one of the world’s most shocking and little-known wildlife trades. It follows three unlikely allies — a legal scholar, an environmental activist, and an Inuit hunter — on a mission to protect polar bears from international commercial trade. Filmed over six years across nine countries, the film exposes the sanctioned sale of hundreds of polar bears each year on the global market. But as the investigation deepens, it uncovers a disturbing truth: those entrusted with safeguarding the species may be entangled in their continued commercialisation.

Executive produced by Adam McKay, Trade Secret avoids sensationalism in favour of clear-eyed, forensic storytelling. Calm and quietly damning, it raises urgent questions about how we protect vulnerable species in a world where the lines between protection and exploitation have become dangerously blurred.

The first screening will be followed by a Q&A with Director and festival guest Abraham Joffe