APE REGINA by Nicola Sorcinelli
Italy, 2019, 13’
Elsa is seventy years old and she has five empty hives. The bees are gone just like her husband, to whom she will never forgive the fact that he has died before her. Only a new queen bee, if accepted, could make the bees come back. One day she finds Amin, a young sixteen-year-old boy who has escaped an immigration center. The police is looking for him and he wants to reach Finland. Else decides to host him in exchange for help with her hives, until he has to leave.
Nicola Sorcinelli is a young Italian director. He has been interested in the arts ever since he was just a school boy. Since the beginning he has been selected in some of the most important international festival, as of today he has received more than 90 awards. “Moby Dick” has won the Nastro d’Argento after being presented at the Mostra del Cinema di Venezia. “Ape regina”, produced by Wildside and Rai Cinema was part of the Festa del Cinema di Roma, where it won the Alice nella città prize. At the moment he is working on his first film produced by Marco Bellocchio’s Kavac Films and a Netflix original series.
