Honey Hunters Script
52 minute cut down
10.00.01 – TEXT BOARD
In the past, in Eastern Europe,
bees were kept in forests.
10.00.03 – TEXT BOARD
People made hollows in trees and
logs for the bees to live in
10.00.06 – TEXT BOARD
Today, this old craft is
witnessing a revival in Poland.
10.00.08 – TEXT BOARD
The natural tree beekeeper is
called BARTNIK.
10.01.09 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
My name is Magda Popławska. I am an actress.
10.01.14 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I’m taking part in a film. A
documentary.
VOICE OF CAMERA
Great.
10.01.19 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
About bees. I’m really into this
topic. And the world now keeps talking about how the bees are going extinct. So
I want to learn what can be done to help them survive.
10.01.35 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
To help us. If they die, we will
follow. So I’m going to Bashkortostan in Russia. And to Nepal. Maybe I can
learn something.
10.01.49 – TEXT BOARD
Honey Hunters
10.01.57 – TEXT BOARD
Warsaw, Poland
10.02.20 – MAN IN LIFT
Make room for Kamil, the main
protagonist.
10.02.23 - KAMIL
I'm no protagonist. The bees are.
10.02.33 - RECEPTIONIST
Kamil, have you seen that?
10.02.37 - KAMIL
Wow, it's great. Nice. Front
cover.
10.02.42 - RECEPTIONIST
That's really something.
10.02.45 – KAMIL
Cool.
10.02.47 - RECEPTIONIST
I have to admit that the idea of
placing all of it on the roofs of different buildings is quite interesting
and I think it's...
10.02.58 - KAMIL
And it's in the city.
10.02.58 – RECEPTIONIST
Yeah! In the city. I haven't
heard of anything like that before.
10.03.04 - KAMIL
Maybe I'll talk the marketing
department into placing one on our roof...
10.03.08 - RECEPTIONIST
That's a good idea.
10.03.09 - KAMIL
... or on the 18th floor.
10.03.18 – SECURITY MAN
We will fetch a trolley. Come
with us. We'll get the IDs.
10.03.25 – MAN BEHIND DESK
Good morning.
10.03.26 – KAMIL
Morning. My name is Kamil Baj. We brought the bees.
10.03.29 – MAN BEHIND DESK
How many people?
10.03.30 – KAMIL
10 000 bees.
10.03.35 – VOICE OVER THE RADIO
Make sure you let them in.
10.03.38 – SECURITY MAN
We're getting on the roof with
the gentleman and the bees.
10.03.58 – SECURITY MAN
We're going to the 2nd floor.
10.04.00 - KAMIL
The roof of the biggest shopping
mall in Warsaw.
10.04.04 – MAN ONE TALKING
2 or 3 hectares.
10.04.05 – MAN TWO TALKING
It still is the biggest mall.
10.04.12 – SECURITY MAN
Is this spot all right?
10.04.14 - KAMIL
Yes, it's fine.
10.04.18 - KAMIL
After all this stress they need
half an hour to relax. Then I'll open them. So they can calm down.
10.04.30 - KAMIL
A beekeeper always has a smoker
and his hat. Last year a friend told us that Arkadia has
a green rooftop. This is eco honey. I could get a certificate if we weren't in
Warsaw. It meets all the standards.
10.04.46 – SECURITY MAN
I suppose Warsaw could have better
honey than the countryside. No spraying, no chemicals.
10.04.53 - KAMIL
In the countryside the bees get
sprayed sometimes. They don't even make it to the hive.
They just drop dead.
10.05.00 - KAMIL
I'm smelling the hive. You can
feel warmth. And you can smell nectar if it's going fine.
10.05.27 – FRANCESCO PANELLA, President of Bee Life – European Beekeeping
Coordination, Italy
We are witnessing a decline in
the numbers of all small forms of life. The European Community confirmed that
in the last 20 years we have lost 60% of butterflies. Of all pollinators. And
so it is not a decline or a crisis of bees. It is a crisis of small forms of
life and of biodiversity.
10.06.18 – GRAPHIC
Bashkortostan, South Ural,
Russian Federation
10.06.25 – DR DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP, Uniwersytet Maryland,
USA
One of every 3 buy to food we eat are directly or
indirectly pollinated by honeybees.
10.06.46
– DR DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP
There
are three things everyone can do to help bees. One: is to become beekeeper.
Beekeeping is the most relaxing thing you can do. Two: it’s the plants a
pollinator garden and have make sure that in your environment there you have
plants bees can live an. And three: it’s the buy local honey because buy local
honey you supporting your local beekeeper.
10.07.10 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Hello. Would you give me a lift to
the village?
10.07.15 – DRIVER
Yes, get in.
10.07.17 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Thank you very much.
10.07.28 – TEXT BOARD
Honey of Bashkortostan festival
10.07.30 – VOICE OVER TANNOY
Dear friends, soon we will
announce the winners of this crafts competition in the following categories:
best beekeeper, best wild-bee keeper, best hive, best tree hive, best wild-bee
keeping costume.
10.08.14 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Russian language? I had 2
lessons. No way I can communicate.
10.08.21 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Here, in Bashkortostan, I want to
get to know bartniks and their work. And I want to
know why in Russia natural methods of bee breeding remain a part of the
people’s lives, not just tradition. In Poland this culture is only just
reviving. The beekeeping can be our hope to save bees.
10.09.41 – BEE MAN 1
If you rub it... The smell. Look.
This smell. Bees like it a lot.
10.09.49 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
They like it?
10.09.50 – BEE MAN 1
Yes. The smell of the queen.
0.09.53 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'd better spread it.
10.09.54 – BEEN MAN 1
Herbs.
10.09.54 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Herbs.
10.10.00 – BEE MAN 1
This is a log. A home log. Beautiful.
They started gathering honey already. It's half full. It's almost enough for
them to survive the winter. We can take honey from this side. And we leave this
side for them for wintertime. It's more than enough for the winter.
10.10.24 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
There aren't many bees. They are
in the back.
10.10.29 – BEE MAN 1
Take it.
10.10.32 – BEE MAN 1
Oh boy. Come on, take it. I'm
sharing my delicious honey with you.
10.10.37 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Won't they try to get the honey
back? Because I have...
10.10.40 – BEE MAN 1
Come! Take it!
10.10.43 – MAN OFF CAMERA
I don't want it.
10.10.46 – BEE MAN 1
Don't they sting you?
10.10.49 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Oh, it’s scary.
10.10.53 – BEE MAN 1
What are you afraid of?
10.10.55 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
If one gets in here.
10.10.56 – BEE MAN 1
They are starting to sting. Let's
close it. We will close it. Come on.
10.11.05 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Why won't he cover up? He should
cover himself. You should cover yourself.
10.11.10 – BEE MAN 1
What?
10.11.10 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Down. Jesus... So it's not that
easy after all.
10.11.19 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Oh fuck, it bit me. All right, I
think it's hidden here. Will it bite me again?
10.11.25 – BEE MAN 1
No, it won't.
10.11.26 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
But we wanted them to bite me on
the first day, right?
10.11.29 – BEE MAN 1
Do they sting?
10.11.30 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
And so it did. You really need to
master the art of Zen.
10.11.42 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'll be frank. I'm afraid this
won't be so easy. You can hear them... knocking. And they keep walking until
you think they will find a hole.
10.11.53 BEE MAN 1
They stung me.
10.11.56 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
A lot. They stung him terribly.
10.12.00 BEE MAN 1
One is still walking somewhere.
It's here.
10.12.39 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Good morning.
10.12.45 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Hello.
10.12.49 – BEE MAN 2
Good morning.
10.12.54 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
So where are your bees?
10.12.55 – BEE MAN 2
In the forest. Come on, let's
have a look.
10.12.59 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
What's this?
10.13.01 – BEE MAN 2
It's for honey.
10.13.03 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
But what for?
10.13.04 – BEE MAN 2
To gather honey.
10.13.04 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Oh, I see.
10.13.07 – BEE MAN 2
This one is traditional. It's
called a batman.
10.13.10 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
This one is new and that one is
old.
10.13.13 – BEE MAN 2
Some ants.
10.13.18 – BEE MAN 2
This one is contemporary.
10.13.27 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Is your honey harvesting area
big?
10.13.30 – BEE MAN 2
It is. Around 150 tree hives. There
are bees in more than half of them. It's a range of... We're in the centre of
the area with a radius of 25-30 kilometres.
10.13.49 – BEE MAN 2
You'd have to ask my son. Why ask
an old man like me?
10.13.52 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Your son has a wife, too. Why
would I talk to him?
10.13.55
As Muslims we can have up to 5
wives.
10.14.01 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
And Polish women can have 4
husbands.
10.14.04 – BEE MAN 2
That's not how it's supposed to
be.
10.14.18 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
One for cleaning. Another for
cooking.
10.14.21 – BEE MAN 2
For cooking. And the third for
sleeping?
10.14.25 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yes.
10.14.29 – BEE MAN 2
You're so sly, Magda.
10.14.36 – BEE MAN 2
Right...You spoiled the weather. Polish
friends.
10.14.51 – DR DENNIS van ENGELSDORP
So,
number one it’s varroa mite and diseases. We need to have better ways of controlling
this diseases. The second one: is pesticides that have been applied to the
field. And we have to understand better the impact that pesticides have on the
bees and have the mitigate this exposures. And third:
and this is becoming increasingly employed is we are releasing the bees have
less, less land from which collected honey and pollen.
10.15.33 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Tell me, who is a tree beekeeper from
Bashkortostan?
10.15.39 – BEE MAN 2
A tree beekeeper?
10.15.40 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yes?
10.15.41 – BEE MAN 2
A tree beekeeper is just a
regular man.
10.15.57 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yes? Anything else?
10.15.50 – BEE MAN 2
Anyone can become a tree beekeeper.
10.15.51 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Anyone? Even me?
10.15.52 – BEE MAN 2
Yes. You too. If you want it.
10.15.57 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
We'll see.
10.15.57 – BEE MAN 2
Yes.
10.16.08 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Is every tree fit for a hive?
10.16.10 – BEE MAN 2
It should be 150-200 years old. Some...
90 centimetres wide. The highest hives are at 15-17 metres. The lower you cut
the hive the weaker the tree becomes. The higher...The stronger the tree. And
they don't steal because they'd have to climb. If you place the hive on the
ground anyone could come and take the honey. Right.
10.17.00 – BEE MAN 2
This is a tamga.
10.17.01 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Tamga?
10.17.02 – BEE MAN 2
Yes. The tamga
of the Ibragimov family.
10.17.06 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It says it's you tree?
10.17.06 – BEE MAN 2
Yes. Nobody but me can come
close. Only my son and I can look inside.
10.17.23 – BEE MAN 2
You throw the belt again. Up it
goes. Once you're up you have to shorten the belt. Like this. Ok.
10.17.41 – BEE MAN 2
Hold it like this.
10.17.43 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Right. But wait here and catch me
if fall.
10.17.47 – BEE MAN 2
Ok, I will. Go on. Good. Belt up.
Go on, don't stop. Well done.
10.18.15 – BEE MAN 2
You're doing well!
10.18.17 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I think they're getting nervous. Oh
Jesus...
10.18.34 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
What a scary sound. What a smell.
10.18.48 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
The smell of honey. Of course.
10.18.59 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'd better stop peeping inside or
they'll notice me.
10.19.16 – BEE MAN 1
You can do it already.
10.19.18 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It would be hard without these.
10.19.21 – BEE MAN 2
It's done without the gloves.
10.19.24 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
No way, I need them.
10.19.26 – BEE MAN 2
You're an actress, of course you
do. We are no artists.
10.20.38 – BEE MAN 3
Boy, how they stung me. It's
unbelievable that the bees won't sting them. They keep stinging me.
10.20.47 – BEE MAN 2
This is a drone. A non-working
bee. It neither bites nor stings.
10.20.57 – BEE MAN 3
Under that branch?
10.20.59 – BEE MAN 2
Under the branch. Cut the hive under
that big branch. Understood? Make your sign, your tamga.
10.21.11 – BEE MAN 2
And the tree is ours.
10.21.19 – BEE MAN 3
We will put the long one crowsswise. Come down and hand me the wire in a moment.
10.21.32 – BEE MAN 2
We're dancing here in a moment.
10.21.52 – BEE MAN 3
I've started it.
10.22.03 – BEE MAN 3
Could you get it out?
10.22.05 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yeah, all right. God, this alone
is heavy.
10.22.16 – BEE MAN 3
You have to do it stronger.
10.22.17 -– MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Stronger?
10.22.18 – BEE MAN 3
Yes.
10.22.18 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
You need to be strong for that.
10.22.19 – BEE MAN 2
Help her.
10.22.22 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yeah...
10.22.28 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Junir, how many new hives do you make in a year?
10.22.32 – BEE MAN 2
We have planned to make 5 tree
hives each year. And to hang 10 logs a year.
10.22.42 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Gazinur, are you covering this hive today?
10.22.46 – BEE MAN 3
No. It needs time to dry up.
Around a year.
10.22.54 – BEE MAN 2
Is it going well? Good.
10.22.59 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It would take a year for me to
make this on my own.
10.23.21 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I have to take this off.
10.23.22 – BEE MAN 2
Is it hot?
10.23.23 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Don’t worry, just a little. What
are we having?
10.23.28 – BEE MAN 2
Bear meat, I suppose.
10.23.37 – BEE MAN 2
In the recent years we have been
harvesting from 500 to 800 kilograms. Or even a ton. But we don't get to
harvest a ton very often. 1,000 kilograms.
10.23.56 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Have you heard that bees are
dying all around the world? And nobody knows why.
10.24.03 – BEE MAN 2
Our bees are still alive. They
survive the winters. They don't die, thanks be to God.
10.24.13 – BEE MAN 2
Recently nobody ploughs around
here. Nobody sows. Nobody spreads fertilizers. There are no fields. In our
village my brothers lost their whole apiaries. This year some wild-bee keepers lost
all the bees in their tree hives. But our bees survived, for some reason. I
don't know. Oh, Allah.
10.25.08 – FRANCESCO PANELLA
The chemical industry has a
thesis. Find the wrongdoer: electromagnetic waves, beekeepers who have become
incompetent all of a sudden, diseases... All this to divert our attention from
the real problem. And the problem is the emergence of new types of
insecticides. One gram of neonicotinoids is as toxic as 7,360 grams of DDT. The
terrible DDT. This is the problem.
10.25.49 – ADAM
Hello. My name is Adam.
10.25.49
I am Magda.
10.25.51 – TEXT BOARD
Poland
10.25.52 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'm here to learn something.
10.25.53 – ADAM
What kind of education?
10.25.54 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Wild-bee keeping.
10.25.55 - ADAM
I'm not such an experienced bartnik (tree beekeeper).
10.25.58 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I bet I'm far worse.
10.25.59 – ADAM
I'm a beginner myself.
10.26.01 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
But you have some certificates,
right?
10.26.03 – ADAM
I do.
10.26.03– MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
And I don't have any. You must
know more than I do.
10.26.11 - ADAM
Here's the clutch and the
throttle. Can you see this line? Follow
it.
10.26.15 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
We'll see. I bet I can't do it.
10.26.16 - ADAM
Calm down.
10.26.17 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Oh! I can't
even lift it!
10.26.19 - ADAM
Gently. It's straight here. And
go.
10.26.31 - ADAM
Very nice. Don't push it so deep.
See? It's easier. Put it inside like this. Make a lever.
10.26.42 - ADAM
The hives you saw in
Bashkortostan were and still are used for 100 years and more. It was hard but
rewarding work. Long ago in Poland the income from wild-bee keeping exceeded
the total income from hunting and timber.
10.27.01 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Really?
10.27.02 – ADAM
Yes.
10.27.05 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Let me try...
10.27.05 – ADAM
Wait, I'm going to make it. But
I'm not sure if I am going to succeed.
10.27.09 – VOICE OFF CAMERA
Good, good! Careful.
10.27.11 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
All right. I can go there.
10.27.13 - ADAM
No, don't. It's not safe.
10.27.1 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'll use my willpower, then.
10.27.28 - ADAMA
Three, four... I suppose we have five
hanging already.
10.27.34 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Plus the tree hives.
10.27.36 - ADAM
There are one, two, three... I
suppose it's five as well. These are finished. There are five more logs in the
yard. We will hang them in spring. I think the bees will settle in. Why do I do
this? Because I like it. It's the only reason.
10.27.55 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
That's good.
10.27.55 – ADAM
I keep bees, I like them. And I
like being a bartnik.
10.28.03 - ADAM
And how did you get so interested
in tree beekeeping? Do you like bees that much? Or is it wild-bee keeping as
such?
10.28.11 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'd like to be closer to nature
though I live in the city and it's very difficult. I stopped eating meat and
developed an interest for it. And then...
10.28.22 – ADAM
I don't eat meat during Lent
either.
10.28.26 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
The bees have also become a hot
topic. There is this alarm that if they die we will follow.
10.28.36 - ADAM
We are going to hang the log on
the second oak.
10.28.42 - ADAM
All right, let's begin.
10.29.14 – TEXTBOARD
Paris, France
10.29.20 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
Hello!
10.29.21 - KAMIL
Hi.
10.29.22 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
I have hives on the roof of the
Military School. To be precise, it's on the chapel.
10.29.32 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
Right there.
10.29.34 - KAMIL
How many hives do you have
upstairs?
10.29.36 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
I have three here. The rest is in
Les Invalides and on the roof of The Musée d'Orsay.
10.29.42 - KAMIL
Any hives outside Paris?
10.29.44 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
In the countryside, exactly.
10.29.53 - KAMIL
Nice. Not bad. Come on. I've got
it.
10.30.06 - KAMIL
It's pretty up here.
10.30.09 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
It is, indeed. A magic view. The
view on Champ de Mars is really great. Really close to the Eiffel Tower.
10.30.17 - KAMIL
All right. I'm putting the hat
on. I'm ready.
10.30.21 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
I have little experience. It
seems that it's easier for the bees in the city than in the countryside. To
survive winter. Especially comparing to intensively cultivated farming areas
where wild flowers are being wiped out by industrial farming.
10.30.37 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
One hive gives 20 kilos of honey per
year in the Champagne region. In Paris we get twice as much.
10.30.46 - KAMIL
How often do you replace your
queens?
10.30.48 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
I re-queen my colonies every
year. In order to avoid swarms. It's a real problem. People are scared.
10.30.59 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
Are we still looking for the
queen? She's here!
10.31.01 - KAMIL
Ok, the queen is here.
10.31.04 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
Buckfast. It's the Buckfast
strain.
10.31.11 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
It's always exciting to find the
queen.
10.31.18 – FRENCH BEEKEEPER
It's risky and dangerous. It
requires certain experience. We call them domestic but they are savage insects.
They are wild.
10.31.34 - KAMIL
Yes, wild.
10.31.46 - KAMIL
I'm taking it out.
10.31.50 - KAMIL
The queen is inside. Be careful.
10.31.53 – SECURITY MAN
I can see the dot. A blue dot.
10.31.57 - KAMIL
It should even have a number.
This is the queen.
10.32.00 - KAMIL
And I gave a second queen.
10.32.01 – SECURITY MAN
You brought another one?
10.32.04 - KAMIL
In thirty-seven hives one is aggressive.
I will probably have to take it away if they don't accept this queen. If they
don't accept the queen, I will have to take it away.
10.32.16 – SECURITY MAN
Maybe they don't like the
climate?
10.32.17 – KAMIL
No, it's about the strand of the
queen.
10.32.19 – SECURITY MAN
Can't it be?
10.32.20 – KAMIL
No, the previous queen was weak.
The bees replaced it with a wild queen. In the meantime, when I didn't notice.
And it's the effect. But without the queen most of them will die in two or
three weeks.
10.32.38 – MARIA GEMBALA, Queen Bee Breeder
30 years ago Polish bees could
deadly sting cows, horses, dogs and different farm animals. But now our bees
are so mild that other European nations envy us.
10.32.52 – MARIA GEMBALA
These are drones. I will use them
for insemination in a moment.
10.32.57 – MARIA GEMBALA
This insemination is modernity.
Until recently we were still in tree hives. And all of a sudden we inseminate
bees.
10.33.08 – MARIA GEMBALA
If we stimulate the drone's
nervous system, it everts its reproductive organ and I can draw semen.
10.33.22 – MARIA GEMBALA
The worker bees decide which one
of them becomes the queen. It's a larva that would normally become a worker
bee. But the bees decide to feed one of them differently and so it develops into
a queen. So a larva that would become a bee that normally lives around one
month is fed differently and becomes a queen that can live up to five years.
10.33.52 – MARIA GEMBALA
And it's caused by the diet - the
royal jelly. The royal jelly is a wonder of nature.
10.34.37 - KAMIL
A Gemma queen. The Gemma strand.
From Mrs. Gębalowa.
10.34.45 – SECURITY MAN
There's a lot!
10.34.45 – KAMIL
They are going to fly around.
They are nervous already. I'd be nervous myself if I were them, if I'd lost my
queen.
10.34.55 – KAMIL
There's honey to extract.
10.34.57 – SECURITY MAN
They're getting into my hair!
10.34.57 – KAMIL
Hands close to your head and go.
10.35.02 - KAMIL
It is rare. For a swarm without a
queen to go wild like this. With the mother in place I only needed the hat.
They went crazy. But it could have been the queen - she trained them that way.
10.35.21 - KAMIL
I have to make a path for bees.
So that they can eat the food out and finally get to the queen. If I let her
out now they would just kill the queen.
10.35.38 - KAMIL
We can't save the bees with just
cities. Farming has to change. There should be no huge monocultures of 100
hectares or more. Urban beekeeping can only be a percentage in saving the bees
but it isn't crucial for the survival of the species.
10.36.27 – TEXTBOARD
Lamjung District, Nepal
10.36.31 – DR DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP
One bee is not a bee. A bee must live in a collective.
It’s superorganism.
10.36.39 – DR DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP
And so as a superorganism it’s capable to control
diseases by swarming often keeping its colony very small and only making enough
honey for eat survive the winter.
10.36.54 – DR DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP
And so are honey hunter can go in and kill the colony
and next year a new swarm will coming and they can do the circle over and over
again.
10.37.06 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Jesus, how beautiful it is.
10.37.13 – DR
DENNIS Van ENGELSDORP
But using that system we cannot provide the honey that
a world needs.
10.37.19 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Listen, this will only happen
once. Are you ready? I'm not.
10.37.28 - VILLAGER
She seems shy?
10.37.31 - VILLAGER
The protagonist is shy because we
are all looking at them.
10.37.37 – VOIE OFF CAMERA
Jyoti Primary School.
10.37.39 – VOICE OFF CAMERA
Welcome! Dear little brothers and
sisters, on behalf of the group of mothers I want to greet you. We have
gathered here to greet you. Let everyone greet you.
10.37.58 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
What does it mean? This.
10.38.00 – VILLAGER
It's tika.
It's for a successful journey. We put it on because we wish you success in your
work and tasks.
10.38.13 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I don't know how to act.
10.38.20 - VILLAGER
This is our honey hunter. If you
join him when he climbs for the honey he will be very pleased.
10.38.31 - VILLAGER
We will appreciate it.
10.38.35 –
MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I’m strong women.
10.39.02 – VILLAGER
We have to build 2 bridges to get
to the other side. And another bridge to get under the hive and make smoke.
That's why we need 3 bridges...
10.39.24 - VILLAGER
Later we will make another
bridge.
10.39.26 – ANOTHER VILLAGER
Have you been to the river?
10.39.27 – VILLAGER
Not yet.
10.39.30 – ANOTHER VILLAGER
She might want to learn this. I
don't think she'd manage.
10.39.36 – ANOTHER VILLAGER
The goal is to make it smooth and
so it bends easily.
10.39.39 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Make it softer, ok.
10.39.54 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Who is the honey hunter?
10.40.03 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Now you're a guru.
10.40.05 - VILLAGER
You're her guru now.
10.40.08 – 3RD
VILLAGER
We use the special wood from Bhaugyaulo to make the rope ladder. We use it to climb up
and down to get to the hive.
10.40.22 – 3RD
VILLAGER
Put it here.
10.40.26 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
This is a hunter. The second
hunter wears a yellow T-shirt. The rest are helpers. They stay down and make
smoke.
10.40.38 – HONEY HUNTER
A total of 9 + 7 + 2. 16 plus the
2 of us. A total of 18.
10.40.44 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It looks like the whole village
is going. They are all preparing it. Several people are needed just to carry
this ladder. Who climbs up? Is it you?
10.40.56 – HONEY HUNTER
A regular person wouldn't climb
the cliff and cannot hunt for honey.
10.41.01 – 3RD
VILLAGER
Tie it twice.
10.41.02 – 4TH
VILLAGER
It's going to be strong.
10.41.05 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I think they're anxious. Because
a girl ties it for them. They don't trust it.
10.41.13 – 3RD
VILLAGER
She's making a real effort.
10.41.43 – 5TH
VILLAGER
Now that winter has come they're
stuffing themselves with honey. They are looking for a warmer place with their
bellies full. After some time, they will fly away. This swarm will go away if
we don't harvest the honey.
10.42.05 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I'll get killed here.
10.42.46 – HONEY HUNTER
My name is Ganga Bahadur Gurung.
Ganga.
10.42.50 – HONEY HUNTER
Yes, I am a honey hunter. As for
honey hunting - it's been our tradition for centuries. We have always been
doing it. You can also earn money selling honey. That is why we do it.
10.43.08 HONEY HUNTER
Everyone does it. I mean many
people from the village. Family members and relatives all go hunting. The whole
village comes. But I am the main hunter. I take the honey from the hives.
10.43.20 – HONEY HUNTER
When I come to the cliff I
prepare for taking the honey. When I'm ready only one thing troubles my mind.
How to ensure safety for myself and for others, I pray.
44.21 – 6TH VILLAGER
They never hunt the honey before
their prayers. They use the following words: "Please hurt neither me nor
my companions. I am doing what my ancestors have been doing."
10.44.50 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I have to zip it up.
10.45.05 – HONEY COLLECTOR
Don't force it. Be careful.
10.45.16 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It's a machine. They mangle those bees. But what can you do? No mercy.
10.45.29 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I have no gloves on.
10.45.35 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
It's so warm.
10.45.37 - VILLAGER
There are bees on her.
10.45.41 – HONEY COLLECTOR
Send it down. She might not hold
it.
10.45.50 - VILLAGER
I've got it.
10.45.54 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Oh my God.
10.46.01 - VILLAGER
Look, she's holding on pretty
well. And he's holding her, too.
10.46.08 - VILLAGER
There's a lot of honey here.
10.46.10 – ANOTHER VILLAGER
Try to get it all. Hey, careful!
Hold it.
10.46.17 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Take it, it's heavy!
10.46.19 – VOICE OFF CAMERA
Careful.
10.46.22 – HONEY COLLECTOR
Tell them it's very sweet.
10.46.42 – 3RD
VILLAGER
It's neither a hobby nor a game.
We do it because it is part of the tradition of our ancestors. We want to keep
it alive.
10.46.58 – TEXTBOARD
Poland
10.47.28 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Tell me what's happening inside.
10.47.30 – ADAM
As for honey...
10.47.31 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Yes?
10.47.32 – ADAM
There is a lot of honey. Lots of
honey and maggots. It's a strong swarm. Look how many are sitting here.
10.47.40 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I can see that. But this is a
fresh log, right? You know why there are so many?
10.47.45 - ADAM
Why?
10.47.46 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Because I made it.
10.47.46 - ADAM
That's right.
10.47.49 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
We made it together. A woman's
touch.
10.47.53 ADAM
A bee family needs 100 kilograms
of honey to survive the year and around 90 kilograms of pollen. So all we can
take is the excess of their production.
10.48.07 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
And what does it mean to emerge?
10.48.09 - ADAM
When the chrysalis matures it has
to bite through the cover that traps it. It is bigger with the queen.
Like an icicle hanging there. It
can be even 3 centimetres long. And when the chrysalis matures it bites away
the tip. Or it pushes it out and gets outside.
10.49.00 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
So what? Can I take a little?
10.49.02 - ADAM
Can you see that nice comb at the
top?
10.49.06 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
Give me some smoke.
10.49.06 – ADAM
I'll drive them away.
10.49.11 - ADAM
Tear it from the top. It should
come out easily.
10.49.14 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
All right.
10.49.17 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I have to get out of this. Help.
Or I'll go crazy.
10.49.26 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
I don't get it. No hat,
barehanded, I get here...
10.49.29 - ADAM
It's about being calm.
10.49.31 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
And they do nothing.
10.49.33 – MAGDA POPŁAWSKA
They don't attack me. Take me from here before
I eat everything.
10.50.17 – DR Dennis van ENGELSDORP
I
think that the bees telling us a lesson. There telling us we are think the
canary mine that the warring us that something is wrong. And we must be sure to
listen to they.
10.50.34
– DR Dennis van
ENGELSDORP
I
think that we have to understand what going on because I think is there
something fundamentally changing and fundamentally wrong with our environment. And
I think by addressing that, we wil no doubt address
other broader environmental concerns. So by helping bees, I think we will be
helping a much bigger and broader picture concerning the environment and modern
agriculture and how people can live on earth in a sustainable way.
10.52.37
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