Tell It to the Bees

Tell It to the Bees (2019) is Annabel Jankel's quiet British drama, and you can watch it online on iFILM. In a Scottish town in the early 1950s, a woman doctor and a struggling mother find themselves drawn together against everything the era allows.

Dr. Jean Markham (Anna Paquin) comes back to the place she fled as a teenager to take over her late father's surgery. A playground fight sends young Charlie into her care, and she walks him out to the hives in her garden, telling him the bees will keep any secret he gives them. Through the boy, his mother Lydia (Holliday Grainger) enters Jean's life: worn down, abandoned by her husband, scraping by. What grows between the two women is something their neighbours will never forgive.

Adapted from Fiona Shaw's novel, it's small in scale, warm in tone and clear-eyed about the cost of love in a closed community. The beekeeping isn't just a motif; it's how the film says out loud what no one can say to people. One for viewers after a gentle, melancholy romance built on its two leads. Stream Tell It to the Bees (2019) online on iFILM.