Emma is about to say the fateful “I do” at the altar, but an unaccountable restlessness takes hold of her. Her life has been governed by others until now, and her mother’s death reveals a shattering secret: her real father is not the man who raised her, but a mysterious Moroccan musician her mother had met twenty-five years earlier, when she was an Erasmus student.
In an act of courage and rebellion, Emma sets out for Morocco, determined to find her own roots and take hold of her own destiny. Alone, telling no one, she embarks on a breathtaking adventure, facing the unknown and questioning everything she has ever believed. Along the way she will discover an inner strength she never imagined she had, opening the door onto a part of herself that had long stayed hidden.
“The Fate of the Bee” is an epic journey of self-determination and rebirth, in which its heroine discovers that the courage to follow her own heart can lead to extraordinary revelations and to a new way of seeing life.
Credits
- Directed byToni Trupia
- ScreenplayToni Trupia, Enrico Saccà
- CastLudovica Francesconi (Emma), Luca Lionello (Luigi), Giuseppe Scoditti (Alberto), Ayoub Missioui (Kamal)
- WithOussama Oussous, Antonio Piovanelli, Mariella Fenoglio, Mina Bouyabrine, Lorenzo Acquaviva, Daniela Scarlatti, Abdelaziz Erradi, Hanna Alaoui, Nezha Alaoui, Mirouit Abdellah
- CinematographyPaolo Ferrari (AIC, Imago)
- EditingSimona Paggi (AMC)
- Production designRachele Meliadò, Khalid El Attafi
- CostumesAlessandro Lai
- MusicStefano Switala
- Assistant directorChristian Bonatesta
- Location soundMiguel Porras Ramos, Simouhammed Simou
- Production managerCiro Formisano, Antonio Stefanucci
- Presented byIvo Romagnoli
- Produced byFilmin’ Tuscany, in association with Roma Piazza di Spagna Production, in collaboration with Le Moindre Geste
- DistributionRS Productions
- Supported byFriuli Venezia Giulia Film Fund 2023; MiC selective funding for production; Fondo per lo sviluppo degli investimenti nel cinema e nell’audiovisivo
- Original titleIl destino dell’ape
- CountryItaly
- Original languageItalian, French, Arabic
- GenreDramedy, road movie, coming of age
- Running time107′
- Release19 November 2026