Carnegie Mellon International Film Festival - 20,000 Species of Bees

Presented By: CMU Sustainability Initiative, CMU Center for the Arts in Society

Cosponsored By: Chantal's Cheese Shop, Collaboratory Against Hate, CMU Student Center for Diversity and Inclusion

Original Title: 20.000 especies de abejas

Duration: 128 minutes

Country: Spain

Language: Spanish, Basque, French with English Subtitles

Director: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

20,000 Species of Bees follows the course of 8-year-old Lucia’s transformative summer embedded in the Basque countryside alongside her mother’s family. Sunsoaked and transparent, Lucia engages in faltering, anxious, and frustrating endeavors, seeming almost to tumble into the reality of her true self and her gender identity. Parallel to Lucia’s adolescent struggle for assertion, her mother Ane strains against the weight of her father’s career in the arts to find her own expressive authenticity. A subtle tension builds for both mother and daughter as they win the confidence to push free of ill-fitting molds; intrepidly pushing to secure acceptance and peace within the droning hum of their apiary community.

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