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Honeyland
Theatrical release poster
Directed byTamara Kotevska
Ljubomir Stefanov
Produced byAtanas Georgiev
StarringHatidze Muratova
CinematographyFejmi Daut
Samir Ljuma
Edited byAtanas Georgiev
Music byFoltin
Production
companies
  • Trice Films
  • Apolo Media[1]
Distributed byNeon
Dogwoof
Release date
  • 28 January 2019 (2019-01-28) (Sundance)
Running time
87 minutes
CountryNorth Macedonia
LanguagesTurkish
Macedonian
Bosnian
Box office$724,050[2][3]

Honeyland (Template:Lang-mk, transliterated: Medena zemja) is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. It portrays the life of Hatidze Muratova, a beekeeper in the remote mountainous village of Bekirlija, North Macedonia and follows her lifestyle and the changes therein following the arrival of a nomad family in the neighbouring house. Originally intended as a government-supported documentary short about the region surrounding river Bregalnica in the central region of the country, the documentary's area of focus changed course upon the encounter between the filming team and Muratova. Honeyland received its world premiere at the 2019 Sundance Festival on 28 January followed by a theatrical release in the United States on 26 July 2019.

Filming of Honeyland lasted for three years, with the directors collecting a total of four hundred hours of footage. Several environmental topics are explored in the documentary such as climate change, biodiversity loss and exploitation of natural resources. Two different ideologies are contrasted with the documentary's main protagonists, namely humanity's balance with the ecosystem portrayed through Muratova and consumerism and exploitation of resources portrayed through her neighbours. The directors main focus when filming was on the visuals and during the editing process, the audio track was not used. The documentary also portrays the protagonist's relationship with her bed-ridden mother and her neighbours.

Honeyland received widespread and universal critical acclaim from contemporary film critics. It was included in numerous year-end lists and was chosen as the best film of 2019 by The New York Times. The documentary also received numerous awards; it was the only film to win three different awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. It is also currently nominated for the Best International Feature Film as an entry from North Macedonia, and for the Best Documentary Feature at the 92nd Academy Awards, making it the first film to receive a nomination in both categories.[4] It marks the country's second nomination in the Oscars since Before the Rain (1994). As of 2020, the documentary's worldwide gross is US$724,050.

Plot

Honeyland is a documentary about the life and labors of Hatidze Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish descent who lives in the village of Bekirlija in the municipality of Lozovo. As the village is in a secluded mountain, she has no access to electricity or running water. She is one of the last wild beekeepers in the country and the continent. Muratova lives together with her 85-year-old partly-blind bed-ridden mother, Nazife, who is completely dependent on her daughter's care. She earns her and her mother's living by harvesting the honey she gets from beekeeping in batches and selling her products in the country's capital Skopje, a trip for which she needs to commute for four hours on foot and by train. Muratova views her work as a means of restoring balance in the ecosystem. This is exemplified through moments when she chants the lines "half for me, half for you" to her bees when harvesting the honey. This principle is based on the customs and traditions of her ancestors, who taught her that bees need to use their own honey for nutrition to obtain more energy for flying and mating.[5] The documentary shows numerous shots of Hatidze during the beekeping process, including the handling of the apiaries where the bees are kept and cutting honeycombs.

The peace and quiet of her home-place and routine life are disrupted by the arrival of Hussein Sam, a Turkish nomadic beekeeper who arrives with a trailer. Traveling with him are his wife Ljutvie, their seven children and several imported domestic animals.[6][7] Hatidze maintains good relationships with them and bonds with the family's children who frequently invade her privacy. She proceeds to pass on the advice she got from her ancestors to Sam, explaining to him the art of beekeeping and instructing him on how to start his own colony. In need of financial means to sustain his family, Sam disregards her advice and proceeds to harvest the entire honey his beehives produce upon a customer's request to provide him with as much honey as possible. This leads to Sam's bees attacking Hatidze's in order to obtain honey during the resource-scarce winter period, thus bringing an end to Hatidze's way of living.[8]

Conception and development

The film was originally planned as a documentary short about preserving the region surrounding river Bregalnica (pictured).

Starting from 2015, the documentary was shot over three years and the final version was condensed from more than 400 hours of footage.[9] Honeyland marks Tamara Kotevska's and Ljubomir Stefanov's second collaboration on a documentary movie, the first one being Lake of Apples (2017).[10] The movie was originally intended as a government-supported documentary short about the river Bregalnica and the preservation of the surrounding region in the municipality of Lozovo in Central North Macedonia.[11][12] As such, it was conceived as material for the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation's program for preservation of North Macedonia's natural resources. Financing for the documentary came from a $25.000 grant from a documentary fund by the San Francisco International Film Festival and 3.000.000 denars from the North Macedonia Film Agency.[13]

The directors' intitial main idea was supposed to be the change of location of people inhabiting Bregalnica and the surrounding region along with the natural change of its course that takes place every ten years.[14] However, upon arriving to the intended filming location, they met Muratova and proposed to her to star in the documentary. Although initially taken aback, she agreed to get involved as she had been trying to get her message across to the world for a while.[15] Both Muratova and the nomad family had a reluctant approach when they first started being recorded; however, as filming progressed, they got accustomed to the directors' presence and virtually no scenes are fictional.[16]

Filming and production

Due to the remote location of Bekirlija, the village where filming took place, the production team stayed there for three to four days consecutively before going to surrounding inhabited places to obtain food. They also slept in tents and hammocks in front of Muratova's house.[17] The production team consisted of a relatively small team, namely two directors, two directors of photography (DOP), one editor and one audio engineer.[14] One of the main challenges for the DOPs was the lack of electricity, for which they only had to rely on natural sunlight, candles gaslight and the fire place.[18] Kostovska was in charge of capturing relationships between people while Stefanov was responsible for the environmental aspects of the movie.[14]

The documentary makes no use of voice-overs and subjects filmed do not look directly at the camera, which gives them a "completely invisible" feel.[19] When filming their subjects, Kotevska and Stefanov relied primarily on visual observations of their characters since neither of them speaks Turkish. This approach was followed through during the post-production stages as well, and during the first six months of the rough cut, which lasted approximately 12 months in total, the directors focused only on the visuals without making use of any audio or transcript. In this way, they ensured the movie's narrative could also be solely followed visually.[16][18] The filming technique was noted to contain elements of direct cinema. The camerawork which is steady during the first half of the movie, becomes progressively more unsteady with the arrival of the nomadic neighbours.[20]

The music score and the soundtrack for the documentary were composed by the Macedonian group Foltin under the musical supervision of Rana Eid from the production company DB Studios in Beirut.[11]

Topics

Several topics are explored in the movie, with Stefanov stating that the directors' three major focus points were climate change, biodiversity loss (exemplified through a declination of the bee population[21]) and exploitation of natural resources.[16] Stefanov further described his view on the concept as follows, "The point is to take as much as you need, not to take everything, and leave [something] for tomorrow and those who are providing for you".[17] Kotevska also commented that the most suitable comparison of the topics explored in the movie would be with modern consumerism. She described Muratova's case as a microcosm that reflects "the same rules as all this world about how consumerism destroys the natural resources completely".[17] She further compared the buyer who demanded honey from Sam as "the pressure of society put on them" and his actions as stemming "between the moral values and the pressures of society".[17]

Set in the context of global warming and the rise of contemporary environmental awareness surrounding the time of its release, numerous critics viewed its themes as an important message to modern-day citizens and their lifestyles. A.O. Scott from The New York Times viewed the role and actions of Hussein as villainous and "utilitarian", while he viewed Hatidze as a "heroic figure" who sends a message to people who are similar to her "wasteful, wanton neighbours".[9] Sheena Scott, writing for the Forbes described the motivation behind Bas's actions as "[t]he lure of profit is too great, to the detriment of a more suitable sustainable way of living".[19] The documentary's producer Atanas Georgiev also stated during the Sundance Festival that the production team was "very eager" to send the message of sustainability to the citizens and the government of the country and prompt them to take action to improve the country's air quality and decrease pollution.[22]

Another topic covered in the movie is the mother-daughter relationship between Muratova and her bed-ridden mother, which cinematagorapher Ljuma described as that of a queen bee and a worker bee.[17] Kostevska revealed during an interview that the relationship was supposed to capture the traditions of the Turkish minority in Macedonia and the social expectation of the last daughter to take care of her parents while they are alive and thus not marry nor establish her own family.[14] Out of the twenty five scenes which were filmed showing intimate moments shared between the two, the movie eventually included approximately six.[14]

Release

Initial screening

The world premiere of Honeyland was at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and given a U.S. theatrical release by Neon on 26 July 2019.[23] It was released in the United Kingdom on 13 September 2019 by Dogwoof.[24] The film was released on 22 October 2019 in digital form and DVD in the U.S. by Universal Studios.[25] It is scheduled to be released on DVD and Blu-ray disc in the United Kingdom by Dogwoof on 24 February 2020 with two special features, deleted scenes and theatrical trailer.[26][27]

Box office

Honeyland grossed $712,363 in the United States and Canada, and $11,687 in other territories, for a total worldwide gross of US$724,050.[2][3]

Critical response

On review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, the film holds an approval rating of 99% based on 80 reviews, with an average rating of 8.36/10. The website's critical consensus reads, "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."[28] At Metacritic, which assigns a normalized rating out of 100 to reviews from mainstream publications, the film received an average score of 86, based on 26 reviews, indicating universal acclaim.[29]

A.O. Scott from The New York Times: "They render the thick complexity of experience with poignant clarity. Their movie is quiet, intimate and intense, but touched with a breath of epic grandeur. It's a poem including history."[9] In a separate review, Scott also named it the best movie of 2019.[30] David Ehlrich writing for IndieWire gave the film a B+ in his review, calling it "a bitter and mesmerically beautiful documentary that focuses on a single beekeeper as though our collective future hinges on the fragile relationship between her and the hives."[23] Guy Lodge wrote in a positive review for Variety that in the "painstaking observational documentary, everything from the honey upwards is organic."[31] Grading it with four stars out of five, Ty Burr from The Boston Globe opined that its strongest point was that it is "both allegory and example, a symbolic tale about the importance of nature's balance and a specific story about these specific lives" and went on to call Muratova "a figure for the ages".[21] Los Angeles Times journalist Justin Chang described it as one of the rare movies that serves as an "intimately infuriating, methodically detailed allegory of the earth's wonders being ravaged by the consequences of human greed".[20]

Writing for the The Hollywood Reporter, Sheri Linden called it "An unforgettable vérité character study and an intimate look at an endangered tradition."[32] Ed Potton of The Times, who gave the film 4 out of 5 stars, said of the documentary "Although it starts as a meditation on the hardship and rhythms of rural life, [it] becomes something more intimate".[33] Rating it 4 out of 5, Helen O’Hara of Empire magazine, summed up the film as "Stunningly beautiful and quietly powerful, this is a portrait of a vanishing way of life and of a determined woman who's just trying to make her way in the world."[34] David Sims of The Atlantic called Honeyland "a rare nature documentary that's deeply personal". He further elaborated, "a sensitivity to both petty human concerns and striking natural beauty is what makes Honeyland a particularly enthralling documentary. Nature filmmaking that focuses only on the environment can feel a little dry, while so-called human-interest storytelling can be cloying; Honeyland succeeds by combining the two."[35] Sheena Scott from Forbes shared Sims's sentiments, writing that "it is the moments of intimacy that make this film so unique and beautiful".[19]

Accolades

Bottle of Honeyland honey from Donate for the Honeyland Community fundraising campaign

The film received its first award at the Sarajevo Film Festival, which was used to purchase a new house for Muratova in a nearby village populated by her relatives and friends. Kotevska and Stefanov also started a campaign that sends jars of honey to donors of a fund that goes towards Muratova and her neighbour in their needs.[36]

On 13 January 2020, Honeyland received two nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards: Best Documentary Feature and Best International Feature Film, being the only documentary ever nominated in the latter category.[4][5] It is the second Macedonian film to earn an Oscar nomination after Before the Rain (1994).[37] Honeyland was the most awarded movie at the 2019 Sundance Movie Festival, winning in three categories for a documentary movie, including Grand Jury Prize, the Special Jury Award for Impact for Change and the Special Jury Award for Cinematography, all in the World Cinema Documentary Competition category.[38][39]

Award Category Recipient Result Ref.
Academy Awards Best Documentary Feature Ljubomir Stefanov, Tamara Kotevska, Atanas Georgiev Pending [40][41]
Best International Feature Film Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Pending [40][41]
Alliance of Women Film Journalists Best Documentary Feature Film Honeyland Nominated [42]
American Society of Cinematographers Awards Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography in Documentary Fejmi Daut & Samir Ljuma Nominated [43]
Boston Society of Film Critics Best Documentary Film Honeyland Won [44]
Chicago Film Critics Association Best Documentary Honeyland Nominated [45]
Cinema Eye Honors Awards Outstanding Achievement in Cinematography Fejmi Daut & Samir Ljuma Won [46]
The Unforgettables Hatidze Muratova Won
Outstanding Achievement in Direction Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Nominated
Outstanding Achievement in Nonfiction Feature Filmmaking Atanas Georgiev & Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Nominated
Dallas–Fort Worth Film Critics Association Best Documentary Film Honeyland Nominated [47]
Florida Film Critics Circle Best Documentary Film Honeyland Nominated [48]
Independent Spirit Awards Best Documentary Feature Honeyland Nominated [49]
International Documentary Association Awards Best Cinematography Fejmi Daut & Samir Ljuma Won [50]
Pare Lorentz Award Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov & Atanas Georgiev Won
Best Director Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov Nominated
Best Feature Tamara Kotevska & Ljubomir Stefanov & Atanas Georgiev Nominated
National Society of Film Critics Awards Best Non-Fiction Film Honeyland Won [51]
New York Film Critics Circle Awards Best Non-Fiction Film Honeyland Won [52]
Online Film Critics Society Best Documentary Film Honeyland Nominated [53]
Producers Guild of America Awards Best Documentary Motion Picture Honeyland Nominated [54]
Satellite Awards Best Documentary Film Honeyland Nominated [55]
Seattle Film Critics Society Best Documentary Honeyland Nominated [56]
St. Louis Film Critics Association Best Documentary Feature Honeyland Nominated [57]
Sundance Film Festival World Cinema Grand Jury Prize: Documentary Honeyland Won [58]
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Impact for Change Honeyland Won
World Cinema Documentary Special Jury Award for Cinematography Honeyland Won
Vancouver Film Critics Circle Best Documentary Honeyland Nominated [59]
Washington D.C. Area Film Critics Association Best Documentary Honeyland Nominated [60]

See also

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