Marcus Carlsson: My mother’s from there, and we shot very close to her childhood surroundings. The Quiet Beekeeper was made through the Moving Sweden initiative, for filmmakers in their early stage. I often devise the main character together with the main actor – Mike Leigh is probably the most famous proponent of this method. What attracted me with the bees was that the main character would be engaged in this absolutely crucial part of our ecological survival. I even named my main character after the main character in that film, Olof Persson.