Synopsis
An eight-year-old child struggles with the fact that people keep addressing her in confusing ways. During a summer at her grand aunt’s among the beehives, her life and her mother’s will change forever. The debut of the Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren in the fiction feature film arrives to the screens of the D’A through the front door, after being part of the Official Section of the Berlinale, where its very young protagonist, Sofía Otero, won the Silver Bear for best performance, and being selected at Cannes and San Sebastián with her previous short film, Cuerdas.
Presented by the director
Filmmaker
Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
She has a degree in Audiovisual Communication from the UPV-Bilbao, in Editing and Editing Theory from EICTV of Cuba, and a master’s degree in Cinematographic Direction and Film Business from ESCAC. She has directed several short films that have premiered at international festivals. Her first feature, Voces de papel, was selected in San Sebastián, and her last short, Chords, at the Critics’ Week in Cannes. With 20,000 Species of Bees, it has been part of the Official Section of Berlinale.
Filmography: 20,000 Species of Bees (2023, D'A 2023), Chords (short film, 2022), Ashes and Dust (short film, 2020), Los casos gramaticales (short film, 2018), The Declensions (short film, 2018), Paper Voices (2016), Adri (short film, 2013)
Awards
Silver Bear for Best Performance
MÁLAGA FILM FESTIVAL
Golden Biznaga for Best Film
Silver Biznaga for Best Supporting Actress
Feroz Puerta Oscura Award
Poster
