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In conjunction with Miami Dade College and the Miami Film Festival, you are invited to a free advance screening of the Spanish coming-of-age drama “20,000 Species of Bees” at 7:30 p.m. Tuesday, July 23.
20,000 SPECIES OF BEES | 2023| WRITER-DIRECTOR: Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren | WITH: Sofia Otero, Patricia Lopez Arnaiz, Ane Gabarain | RUNNING TIME: 2H 5M | UNRATED Contains sexual content, nudity, adult themes | IN SPANISH WITH ENGLISH SUBTITLES | 2K DCP projection
In her filmmaking debut, writer-director Estibaliz Urresola Solaguren tells the story of an eight year-old girl who, unhappy in her skin and at odds with her family, finally recognizes her gender over the course of one pivotal summer, and persuades others to recognize it too.
Admission is free but registration required at link below. Seating is limited.
“Alternately mischievous and diffident, as her character’s swinging moods and modes dictate, Otero’s performance in the lead is utterly winning; a late scene in which she experiments with wearing a dress in public requires a subtle spectrum of emotions and body language cues from her, and it’s to Solaguren’s credit that these turns never feel forced or affected. Indeed the film’s whole ensemble, even at its most fractiously opposed, is steered toward creased, careworn restraint rather than shouty grandstanding.” — Guy Lodge, Variety
