Keeping the Bees

Story

Synopsis

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.

Director

Eylem Kaftan

Writers

Eylem Kaftan

Language

Turkish

Country

Turkey

Release date

23 September 2019

Ensemble

Cast

• 

  Meryem Uzerli

  Ayşe

• 

  Feyyaz Duman

  İlker

• 

  Hakan Karsak

  Ahmet

• 

  Burcu Salihoğlu

  Mine

• 

  Sennur Nogaylar

  Cemile

• Dizem Kaftan