10th edition CIFF – 10-14 April 2024

FILMS 2024:  Caribbean Focus | Feature Films | Short Films | Yellow Robin Award Nominees
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20.000 Especies de Abejas

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | Spain | 2023 | 129 min | Spanish, Basque, French | e.s.

Eight-year-old Aitor (whose name means "good father" in Basque; played by Sofia Otero) makes it clear that he would rather be a girl. His understanding mother, Ane, gives him a more gender-neutral name: Cocó, which mean "sweetheart". Aitor prefers to be called Lucía, a reference to light.
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The Aitor-Cocó-Lucía family experiences personal and financial stress. Ane experiences her own identity crisis. She sacrifices her artistic ambitions for the needs of her family with three children. A stay in the countryside with grandma Lita and especially with great-aunt Lourdes, a beekeeper who offers Lucía a sympathetic ear, opens up new perspectives for the family, which is also in transition.

A beautiful and confident debut of the young director, awarded in Berlin with a Silver Bear for the bestperformance by the even younger Sofía Otero.

Place: The Cinemas 

Date: April 12

Time: 14:00 

Duration:129min

Place: The Cinemas

Date: April 13

Time: 12:00 

Duration:129min

Year in
Festival

2024

Director

Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren

Country

Spain 

Language

Spanish, Basque, French 

Length

129 

Year of Production

2023