Markus Imhoof is concerned about the
unexpected and mysterious decline in honeybee populations around the
globe. His film is an exploration of bee
pollination, food manufacturing and genetic science in order to investigate
what the problem seems to be. He and his
team (narrated by John Hurt) travel from California to Switzerland to China and
finally to Australia to see how different cultures are reacting to the
problem. From looking at how and why
bees pollinate flowers; how they mate and create hives; how they act together
as a super-organism in order to protect themselves; and finally how they are
used by humans, Imhoof has managed to create a nature documentary that would
normally be found on television and made it worthy of the big screen.
