Kino Europa: 20,000 Species of Bees/20.000 Especies de AbejasNew European Films
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Kino Europa presents the outstanding diversity and quality of European cinema. Screened in their original language and with subtitles, the films explore the sheer diversity of our continent and will whet your appetite for European cinema. This event presents Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature film.
This event is in the past.
Kino Europa presents the outstanding diversity and quality of European cinema. Screened in their original language and with subtitles, the films explore the sheer diversity of our continent and will whet your appetite for European cinema. This event presents Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature film.
Eight-year-old Lucía doesn’t understand why everyone insists on regarding her as a boy and calling her by her birth name, Aitor. Her nickname, Cocó, doesn’t sit right either. In the summer holidays, her mother takes them to stay with her own mother, in a house linked to bee-keeping. There, alongside the women of her family, the transgender girl embarks on a quest for identity. Just as the diversity of nature depends on countless colonies of bees, the supporting characters are essential for the main act, as daughter, mother and grandmother reflect on their personal perspectives on womanhood.
Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s debut feature is a sunny, work full of empathy that acknowledges the complexity of gender identity. At the 2023 Berlinale, Sofia Otero received a Silver Bear for her performance in the film.
Spain 2023, 129 minutes, original language with German subtitles, directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren
Four times a year, Europe Direct Munich brings European film to Munich in collaboration with the Creative Europe Desk Munich, the Liaison Office of the European Parliament in Munich, the Munich Public Library and the Petra-Kelly-Stiftung. The screenings will be followed by a talk about the film.
For more information and to book your place, visit Europe Direct.
