Year 2012 Video Release 2013-12-23 Studio Kino Lorber Genre Documentary MPAA Rating Not Rated Color Color Runtime 79 Animated Live-Action Full Synopsis Oscar-nominated director Markus Imhoof THE BOAT IS FULL tackles the vexing issue of why bees, worldwide, are facing extinction. With the tenacity of a man out to solve a world-class mystery, he investigates this global phenomenon, from California to Switzerland, China and Australia. Exquisite macro-photography of the bees reminiscent of MICROCOSMOS in flight and in their hives reveals a fascinating, complex world in crisis. Writes Eric Kohn in Indiewire Imhoof captures the breeding of queen bees in minute detail, ventures to a laboratory to witness a bee brainscan, and discovers the dangerous prospects of a hive facing the infection of mites. In this latter case, the camera's magnifying power renders the infection in sci-fi terms, as if we've stumbled into a discarded scene from David Cronenberg's THE FLY. This is a strange and strangely moving film that raises questions of species survival in cosmic as well as apiary terms. Director Markus Imhoof Cast Markus Imhoof