Development - BASQUE, SPANISH, FRENCH - LGBT, Family, Children's - 100 minutes
Lucía is 6 years old and she is a girl with a penis who, in the middle of the separation of her parents, is longing for the summer to come. For the whole family, these will be the holidays in which they will start to see each other the way they really are.
Year of production : 2022 Director(s) : Estibaliz URRESOLA Writer(s) : Estibaliz URRESOLA Producer(s) : Estibaliz URRESOLA (SIRIMIRI FILMS), Lara IZAGIRRE (GARIZA FILMS), Itxaso ESPINAL (GARIZA FILMS )
Lucia is a 5 year old girl with a penis who is longing for the summer to come so that she can escape from school where she has so many problems. For Lucía, the two long summer months that she is going to spend with her siblings in her mother’s home town are the perfect opportunity for her to show herself to everyone as the girl she is. It is also a special summer for Miren, her mother, as she and Xan, Lucía’s father, are separating and they have decided that Xan will use the summer period to move out of the family home. The children, however, know nothing of this.But things won’t be so easy for Lucía. The municipal swimming pools, where the children go every day, are a hostile territory where her body reveals a problem for the external gaze. A gaze that also disturbs, questions and finally affects Miren and the way she is rearing her children. In this situation, Lucía looks for an alternative to the long summer hours in the company of her grandmother Lita and her great-aunt Lourdes, the bee keeper. The two women represent the Christian and pagan facets of traditional Basque society. It will be with Lourdes and the bees that Lucía will feel truly respected and able to express herself freely.The pulling down of the old tree that lodges one of the family’s oldest hives will mark the passing of summer. “The major events of the family must be presented to the bees” she has been told by Lourdes, for whom bees are “a sacred animal”. That is why Lucía decides to face one of her greatest fears and present herself to the hive, so that the venerated insects might accept her as the girl she is.
Country(ies) : SPAIN, FRANCE Financing plan : GARIZA FILMS Start of shooting : May 2022
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Berlinale - Berlin IFF 2023 - Competition (Silver Bear for Best Leading Performance, Guild Film Prize, Berliner Morgenpost Readers’ Jury Award)