2023 · drama · childhood
20,000 Species of Bees
Directed by Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren2h 7m2023
Lucía is an eight-year-old girl, who sometimes struggles as the world tries to catch up with the fact that she is trans. As the summer holidays pass, she explores her femininity alongside the women of her family who at the same time reflect on their own femininity.
Our read: 20,000 Species of Bees (2023) reads as a sombre, measured, grounded drama · childhood entry — measured in intensity, intimate in scope, tender in temperature, ambivalent in outlook.
Sombre, measured, measured drama / childhood, grounded in texture. Ambivalent, intimate, tender.
- sombre
- measured
- tender
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