Keeping the Bees (2019)
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
Writer:
Eylem Kaftan
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Meryem Uzerli as Ayşe |
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Feyyaz Duman as İlker |
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Hakan Karsak as Ahmet |
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Burcu Salihoğlu as Mine |
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Sennur Nogaylar as Cemile |
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Dizem Kaftan as |
| Writing | Eylem Kaftan | Screenplay |
| Production | Canol Balkaya | Producer |
| Production | Mustafa Karadeniz | Producer |
| Production | Önder Önsal | Line Producer |
| Sound | Cem Erman | Music |
| Sound | Emir Ersoy | Music |
| Camera | Serdar Ünlütürk | Director of Photography |
| Editing | Ahmet Alan | Editor |
| Editing | Erkan Erdem | Editor |
| Art | Erdinç Aktürk | Art Direction |
| Sound | Taylan Geçit | Foley Artist |
| Sound | Taylan Geçit | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Ömür Müldür | Sound Recordist |
| Sound | Yalın Özgencil | Sound Designer |
| Sound | Mine Pakel | Sound Designer |
| Directing | Eylem Kaftan | Director |
