
Keeping the Bees
2019 · Movie · 93 min · ★ 5.2
A woman returns to her mountain hometown to care for her seriously ill mother and is asked to take over the family beehives. Putting city life on hold, she tries to relearn beekeeping with local help, but grief, inexperience, and a growing threat in the wild put both the hives and her safety at risk.
Also known as The Hive
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Details
- Original title
- Kovan
- Years
- 2019
- Release date
- 2019-09-23
- Language
- TR
- Runtime
- 93 min
- TMDB rating
- 5.2/10 (15 votes)
About
If you enjoy nature-focused dramas about grief, tradition, and finding purpose through hands-on work, this may click; Not for you if you want high-stakes twists, slick effects, or nonstop melodrama like Öteki Taraf.
Pros: beautiful mountain scenery; grounded beekeeping details; relatable family dynamics | Cons: weak scenario; subtitles can be fast; uneven effects
Themes
- bee
- beekeeper
Cast & crew

Meryem Uzerli
as Ayşe

Feyyaz Duman
as İlker

Hakan Karsak
as Ahmet

Burcu Salihoğlu
as Mine

Sennur Nogaylar
as Cemile
- DK
Dizem Kaftan
Directed by Eylem Kaftan