20.000 Erle Espezie

DRAMA
Erakusketa: MARTXOA, LANDMARK OPERA PLAZA ZINEMA, San Frantzisko

SINOPSIA:

In a small, sleepy village in the Basque Country, a sculptor named Ane and her three children arrive at her mother Lita’s home for summer vacation, where they are surrounded by extended family and nosy neighbors. Ane and her mother’s relationship is strained — Lita disapproves of her daughter’s frayed marriage, career as an artist, and the way she parents her obstinate and mischievous children. Chief among them is eight-year-old Aitor, nicknamed Coco after it becomes clear that being referred to by the name Aitor elicits feelings of distress in the child. Born biologically male, neither the birth name nor the genderless nickname feels quite right, and Ane’s concern for her child grows as Coco becomes more withdrawn. The child’s only respite lies in the Basque hills, where Ane’s aunt Lourdes tends to the family’s beekeeping farm. Among the peaceful humming of bees and Lourdes’ open-minded guardianship, Coco slowly begins to confide in family and friends about her discomfort in her body, eventually voicing a desire to be treated as a girl. As Coco explores her own developing identity over the summer, Ane and the rest of her family, in turn, must learn to accept the child as she is.

Basque director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren’s assured debut feature is a wonderfully sensitive work carried by the Berlinale Silver Bear winning lead performance of newcomer Sofía Otero. An authentic and heart-wrenching story of transition, 20,000 Species of Bees is “a landmark in the filmic discussion of gender, sexuality, and identity” (The Film Verdict).

20.000 ERLE ESPEZIEK 8 urteko umearen esnatzean eta trantsizioan nabigatzen duten familia batek bizi duen istorio bihotzekoa da. Solagurenen film ausartak gurasotasunaren, identitatearen eta genero adierazpenaren gaiak jorratzen ditu, 20.000 ERLE ESPEZIEAK “film erakargarri, autentiko eta hunkigarria da gizarteak munstroak ez dauden lekuetan ikusten jarraitzen duen moduari buruzkoa”. (Pantaila Egunero) Film hau egokia izango litzateke Genero eta Sexualitateko ikastaroetarako eta baita Soziologiako programetarako ere. [www.filmmovement.com/educational/film/20-000-species-of-bees]

2023, Estibaliz Urresolak zuzendua, 128 minutu, euskaraz, frantsesez eta gaztelaniaz ingelesezko azpitituluekin.
2023 – San Sebastian International Film Festival – 71st edition – Awarded the “Sebastiane Award” which is given to the film that best reflects the values and reality of lesbians, gays, bisexuals, and transgender people.

ZUZENDARI BURUZ:

Estibaliz Urresolak (Bilbo, Bizkaia. 1984) film laburrak idatzi, zuzendu eta ekoitzi ditu, besteak beste, Adri (2013), Los casos gramaticales (2018), Polvo somos (2020), Malagako Zinemaldiko emakumezko aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Maskorra, eta Cuerdas (Zabaltegi-Tabakalera, 2022), Canneseko Semaine de la Critique-n proiektatu eta Kimuak-en barne. katalogoa. Horrez gain, Voces de papel dokumentalaren zuzendaria da (ETB Emanaldiak, 2016). 20.000 especies de abejas / 2.000 Species of Bees, bere lehen film luzea, Berlinen lehiatu zen, non interpretazio nagusi onenaren Zilarrezko Hartza irabazi zuen (Sofía Otero). Filmak Espainiako film onenaren Urrezko Biznaga eta bigarren mailako emakumezko aktore onenaren Zilarrezko Biznaga (Patricia López Arnaiz) ere lortu zituen Malagako Jaialdian.