Keeping the Bees
Kovan
2019, Film, 93 min, Drama, Turkish, Türkiye, MoviePedia score 60
Ayşe returns to her hometown in northeastern Turkey to nurse her gravely ill mother. Before she dies, Ayse’s mother tells her that she will leave Ayse her much loved bee hives to manage. Ayse’s modern life has moved her away from the mountains of her childhood – a life in which the bees and their honey were central. But she puts her city life on hold to manage the bees, which provide a distraction from her grief. Ayse slowly starts to work with the local bee keeper to manage the hives but finds the lessons of her childhood are buried deep and the hives are more difficult to manage than she remembers. Ayse’s failure to pay needful attention to local advice sees her mothers bee hives seriously damaged, if not lost forever. What’s more a Caucasian bear becomes a real threat to her hives and her life.
Directed by Eylem Kaftan
Cast
- Meryem Uzerli as Ayse
- Feyyaz Duman as Ilker
- Hakan Karsak as Ahmet
- Burcu Salihoglu as Mine
- Sennur Nogaylar as Cemile
- Dizem Kaftan
- Ömer Akdemir
- Gülay Akdemir
- Mert Akdemir
- Erdal Aktun
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