Honeyland

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Honeyland

2019

1h 25m

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A woman utilizes ancient beekeeping traditions to cultivate honey in the mountains of North Macedonia. When a neighboring family tries to do the same, it becomes a source of tension as they disregard her wisdom and advice.

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Critics Consensus

Honeyland uses life in a remote village to offer an eye-opening perspective on experiences that should resonate even for audiences halfway around the world.

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Bilge Ebiri

Spirituality & Health

03/20/2020

This movie about Europe's last wild beekeeper is complex, resonant, and visually magnificent.

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David Stratton

The Australian

03/06/2020

As fly-on-the-wall documentaries go, Honeyland is a particularly fine example. There is no narration: the rather sad, but enveloping, story is told in purely visual terms, and the photography is outstanding.

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Paul Byrnes

Sydney Morning Herald

03/04/2020

4/5

Hatidze's story is heartbreakingly moving, and needs no heavy editorialising. Her strength, dignity, resilience and humanity carry the film's truth and weight.

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Paul Kanieski

KSQD Community Radio

07/19/2023

Honeyland ... gives us a privileged look into the life of someone we will never meet, it transports us to a place we will never visit, and it’s the distillation of the environmental and social problems that we must somehow solve if humanity is to survive.

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Greg Carlson

Vague Visages

06/05/2023

In her mysterious way, Hatidze’s character is as gorgeous and singular as the breathtaking images collected by cinematographers Fejmi Daut and Samir Ljuma.

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Jane Freebury

The Canberra Times (Australia)

08/23/2022

4/5

Haditze's character and situation may not appeal to everyone, but those who tune in to it will recognise that Honeyland is a rare achievement.

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Nicole

07/09/2024

It’s an interesting movie/documentary.. The captions didn’t always work so you don’t know what they’re saying.. thank you. It would be good for kids in the states to watch so they can see how people live in other parts of the world.

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donnie m

@RT64375194 09/05/2023

watching this now-it sure puts things in perspective when you think you have it bad-1 star off for the CRUELTY to animals

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Kyle M

@RT77296778 10/16/2022

Scenically documented a harsh lifestyle with thematically impactful glimpses, inadvertently reviving the similar storytelling priorly prompted in "Pather Panchali" with condensed idealness. It flows patiently and gracefully, but it lacks eventful resonance. (B-)

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05/28/2022

It was bad. The storyline was really boring.

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Leaburn O

@RT35452347 12/24/2021

Honey plays a backdrop to a documentary which feels at its most fascinating just by portraying how life plays out for itinerant, gypsy like families in far outposts of Eastern Europe. Macedonia is like anywhere else in Europe for most people but there remains a large minority of the population who live this earthy existence. What amazes me is just how diverse their life skills are and how brilliantly improvisational they are. They approach nature with no fear and are at one with heir surroundings whereas most of us all n the modern world would be lost without the usual trappings. I'd last a couple of days in my own in the wild whereas yo this lot it's just easy. Reminds me how much health and safety has contorted our perceptions of risk…much for the worse. I was captivated by the documentary until the final quarter of an hour which dragged a bit.

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júlio a

@RT51210674 12/18/2021

Fabuloso. Dá pra dizer mais nada, assista.

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Ljubo Stefanov

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Tamara Kotevska

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Synopsis

A woman utilizes ancient beekeeping traditions to cultivate honey in the mountains of North Macedonia. When a neighboring family tries to do the same, it becomes a source of tension as they disregard her wisdom and advice.

Director: Ljubo Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska
Producer: Ljubo Stefanov, Atanas Georgiev
Distributor: Neon
Production Co: Nature Conservation Program in Macedonia, Trice Films, Pharmachem, The Swiss Agency for Development & Cooperation, SFFilm Documentary Film Fund, Cinereach, Apolo Media, Macedonian Film Agency
Genre: Documentary
Original Language: Turkish
Release Date (Theaters): Jul 26, 2019, Limited
Release Date (Streaming): Oct 22, 2019
Box Office (Gross USA): $808.5K
Runtime: 1h 25m

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