Toronto Film Festival Dailies

TELL IT TO THE BEES

***World Premiere in Special Presentations Category at the 2018 Toronto International Film Festival***

Starring: Anna Paquin, Holliday Grainger

Emun Elliott, Steven Robertson, Lauren Lyle, Gregor Selkirk, Kate Dickie

Directed by: Annabel Jankel

Written by: Henrietta and Jessica Ashworth

Based on the novel by: Fiona Shaw

Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) returns to the town she left as a teenager to take over her late father’s medical practice. When a school-yard scuffle lands Charlie (Gregor Selkirk) in her surgery, she invites him to visit the hives in her garden and tell his secrets to the bees, as she once did. The new friendship between the boy and the bee keeper brings his mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) into Jean’s world. In the sanctuary of the doctor’s house the two women find themselves drawn to one another in a way that Jean recognises and fears, and Lydia could never have expected. But, in 1950’s small-town Britain, their new secret can’t stay hidden forever.

RT: 105 minutes

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