After drifting as a migrant worker in the city for a year, Maofu returns to his family bee farm in rural China. Maofu brings along big ideas for marketing and honey sales. However, his father Lao Yu wants him to focus on the bees and learn the traditional handcraft beekeeping that the family continued over the generations. Now in his declining years, Lao Yu witnesses the environmental degradation and pollution that has also depleted his bee colonies. He's struggling with his own self-worth and values and mixed emotions of whether his son should even stay in the traditional area of work. Meanwhile, Maofu feels suffocated by his father's authoritarian tunes. Even the animals on the farm echo the emotional intensities of father and son which unexpectedly provides comic relief.

Director : Diedie Weng
Writer : Diedie Weng, Vadim Jendreyko / Producers : Susanne Guggenberger, Lucie Tremblay, Vadim Jendreyko,
Diedie Weng, Hercli Bundi / Cinematographer : Diedie Weng / Sound : Diedie Weng / Editor : Vadim Jendreyko,
Annette Brütsch, Mahi Rahogozar, Diedie Weng / Sound Design : Daniel Almada

Switzerland, Canada / 2016 / 81min / color / DCP / Chinese / JPN & ENG Sub.

SHOWTIMES

DATE/VENUE

18 SUN 13：20 / 【A】Nara Machi Center : Main Hall（Q＆A）
21 WED 11：00 / 【C】Nara Prefecture Cultural Hall : 2F

TICKET

【Early】￥1,000
【Door】￥1,300

PROFILE

Diedie Weng

Diedie Weng grew up in Guangdong, Southern China and is currently living between Canada and Switzerland. She received her MFA in documentary production at the State University of New York at Buffalo. Guided by the American ethnographic filmmaker Sarah Elder, she studied with the creative approach that community members should participate in the filmmaking process and have their own voice represented in the stories about them.
Her previously directed short documentaries are : "MOSUO SONG JOURNEY"（2007）, "BUILD ON PAST FOR OUR FUTURE, AND MING DAY AND NIGHT" （2012）, "THE BEEKEEPER AND HIS SON" is her first feature documentary and was awarded at Visions du Réel in Nyon.