Plot

Jonathan spends his vacations alone with his grandfather on the edge of a forest populated by mythical animals. This year his kid sister Sophie joins. When she disappears, he has to venture into the heart of the forest to rescue her.

Jonathan, 11, usually spends his vacations alone with his grandfather who lives on the edge of a vast forest populated by mythical animals. This year his kid sister Sophie joins him. But it's not cool to be stuck with a little sister, so he does what he can to avoid her. He succeeds entirely too well: Sophie is kidnapped by a giant, 1000-year-old bear. Now, Jonathan has to venture into the heart of the forest to confront the strange beings that dwell there and rescue his sister. "The Great Bear" is Esben Toft Jacobsen's feature film debut.—DFI - Danish Film Institute

Jonathan ( Jon ) and Sophie are both young brother and sister. They both take a trip to their grandfather's house for vacation, Sophie accidentally goes in a door that's prohibited, she ends up getting trapped inside a magical forests so it's up to Jonathan to take a trip to a weird and magical forests to save his sister and stay alive

Jonathan (11 years old) is playing hide in seek with his younger sister Sophie ( 6 years old ), Sophie cheats by placing her boots in a bush and messes with Jonathan. Jonathan tells Sophie that he's going to Grandpa's house, Sophie gets jealous and begs Jonathan to come with him. Sophie ends up coming with Jonathan, they take a train to their Grandpa's house. When they arrive Sophie gets worried that Grandpa forgot they were coming so Jonathan tells Sophie that they will sleep on the ground with all the perilous predators. Grandpa arrives and tells the 2 that a forest has been growing and growing and it starts with his garden. The 2 play tag and Sophie wants to help Jonathan, she encounters a rain frog from The Great Forest and shows it to Jonathan. He messes with it but it does nothing. At night it starts to rain heavily, Sophie asks Grandpa "what's behind the wall" and Grandpa explains that's it's a very big forest with strange including The Bear, a gigantic bear. Before they sleep Jonathan tells Sophie scary stories about the bear and then scares her. Sophie puts the frog in the jar, and uses a hammers down Jonathan's treehouse which collapses, Jonathan gets angry at her, so she enters the Great Forest and Jonathan holds the door shut. Grandpa tries to find the 2 and Jonathan starts his quest to find Sophie, he encounters raindrops and black birds, until he stumbles upon Sophie and The Great Bear in a cave, he gets frightened when he sees the bear so takes Sophie and run so that they can hide from the bear, Sophie tells Jonathan that she refuses to be with him and calls him an idiot. Jonathan falls into a trap with spikes ( for the bear ) and sleeps there, the next day he meets the hunter who bandages his injury and Jonathan tells the hunter that a giant bear took his sister Sophie and the hunter reveals that his villagers built a village on top but when the bear was done with hibernating, it demolished it and he wants to kill it for revenge. He tells Jonathan to lure the bear over a tall tree. Jonathan is with one of his dogs and stumbles upon it, he is shocked to see Sophie interacting with it. Not getting scared by its size, he scares it and tells Sophie that he wanted to apologize to her for holding the door shut and hitting her. When the bear stands up he is astonished just by how humongous the bear truly is. Sophie gets amazed and tells Jonathan that he has to apologize to Mr Bear, Jonathan realizes that the only thing scary about the bear is his size, so he protects the Bear from the hunter. Jonathan tells Sophie that there's a place full of butterflies and lures them to the area that the hunter wanted him to go. The bear gets shot and the hunter gets happy at it, he shoots the bear again but Jonathan stops him and he gets angry the fact they had a deal. Jonathan blames the bear, the fact her was hiding and could've stopped the hunter from taking so it roars at him. Jonathan the bears blood trail and takes the bullet out of the bear. He then heals the bear with a special leaf, Jonathan and the bear rescue Sophie. The bear runs away from the hunter and hangs it out in a plain field full of butterflies. Jonathan and Sophie tell the bear that he can't stay in the area and has to go back to the forest, they say goodbye to the bear and leave. The hunter starts a forest fire and the 2 of them smell it, the bear is shocked at the fire and starts whining. He encounters the 2 dogs and gets scared, which lures him to the trap. The bear tries to escape it but the dogs mess with him and he screams in agony because of the trap. The hunter comes towards the bear and tries to shoot it, Jonathan arrives and tries to throw a rock at him but the hunter knocks him out with the butt of his gun. It causes the bear to get mad and he chases the hunter, killing his dogs in the process. The 2 siblings go to the rain frogs to put out the fire and the bear tries to kill the hunter by destroying rocks at his cave. Jonathan and Sophie tell the bear to stop because it's a good bear, and the hunter shoots the bear while it stands up, this causes the hunter to die because of the debris. The 2 try to heal the bear and tons of animals throw the special leaf at them so Jonathan heals the bear and he takes the 2 back to home. When they arrive they realize that Grandpa rebuilt the treehouse when they were gone and they start to hug.