SCREENING: 20.000 ESPECIES DE ABEJAS

To complete the meeting with Izaskun Urkijo, FICBUEU will be screening the film 20,000 especies de abejas on Saturday. Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s first feature film introduces us to eight-year-old Cocó, who does not recognise herself in the eyes of others and is searching for her own identity; her mother Ane, in a professional and sentimental crisis; and her grandmother Lita and aunt Lourdes, a beekeeper. Through this family, Urresola narrates a summer in which Ane returns with her children to her mother’s house, where the relationships between women of different generations mingle with the rural Basque environment.

The film won the Golden Biznaga at the Malaga Film Festival and was nominated for several awards at the Berlin Festival, winning the Silver Bear for Best Leading Actress for Sofía Otero.