20,000 Species of Bees is a Spanish film about an eight-year-old girl named Coco (Sofía Otero) who realizes her gender identity during a summer vacation with her family in the Basque Country. The film is set in a small village where Coco's mother Ane (Patricia López Arnaiz) and her three children stay with Ane's widowed mother Lourdes (Ane Gabarain), a beekeeper. Coco finds solace in the family's beekeeping farm in the Basque hills, where she eventually expresses the desire to be treated as a girl. The film explores the effect her identity has on her family. To help ensure an accurate portrayal, Naizen, a regional association for the families of transgender minors, worked with the director and provided guidance for Otero. (2023)
American elections are coming up on November 4th. We will be debating issues at stake in this election. We will add a French perspective with the participation of French journalists covering the event in the US and scholars. We will be welcoming Romuald Sciora, Associate Research Fellow at the IRIS and director of the Political and Geostrategic Observatory of the United States. The Lycée High School students will prepare the panel.
It's the start of the school year. A new academic year at the middle school brings together Pierre, Meriem, Fouad, Sophie, Sandrine, Alix, and Sofiane, a group of dedicated and united teachers. They are joined by Benjamin, a young, inexperienced substitute teacher who quickly faces the challenges of the profession. Through his interactions with them, he will discover how the passion for teaching remains alive within an institution that is nevertheless fragile.