Tell It to the Bees

Directed by Annabel Jankel

Written by Fiona Shaw, Henrietta Ashworth, Jessica Ashworth

Dr. Jean Markham 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 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 into Jean's world.

Cast

Anna Paquin

Jean Markham

Holliday Grainger

Lydia Weekes

Emun Elliott

Robert Weekes

Steven Robertson

Jim

Lauren Lyle

Annie Stock

Gregor Selkirk

Charlie Weekes

Kate Dickie

Pam Stock

Billy Boyd

Older Charlie (voice)

Euan Mason

John

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Zara Howell

Chanting Girl 2

Violet Fluendy

Chanting Girl 3

Kaidon McGrath

Bully Boy