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Honeyland

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Macedonia
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2019

1h 25m

Director Tamara Kotevska
Starring Hatidzhe Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam
Genre Documentary
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Hatidze Muratova is one of the last so-called "bee hunters" left in Europe. She raises bees in a minimally invasive manner, based on the sustainability principle of "take half, leave half." But when itinerant farmers arrive, they threaten the precarious balance she has so painstakingly established.

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There is an unassuming languidness to Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s anthropologic documentary about a rural Macedonian beekeeper, “Honeyland.” It’s a quiet and passive film that’s content to luxuriate in place and revel in solitude, which, in turn, both drags the narrative’s loose pacing and instills a certain natural structure that, once embraced, becomes almost mesmerizing.
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The New York Times by A.O. Scott

The opening minutes of Honeyland are as astonishing — as sublime and strange and full of human and natural beauty — as anything I’ve ever seen in a movie.
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The A.V. Club by Charles Bramesco

Though Honeyland is also about what it’s about; in addition to underscoring another inconvenient truth with planetary stakes, the film offers tender, patient portraiture to a woman wholly dedicated to her calling. The melding of the political with the personal has seldom involved so many stingers to the face.
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IndieWire by David Ehrlich

This bitter and beautiful Sundance-winning doc focuses on a single beekeeper as though our collective future hinges on her hives.
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The Atlantic by David Sims

A sensitivity to both petty human concerns and striking natural beauty is what makes Honeyland a particularly enthralling documentary.
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Variety by Guy Lodge

The opening frames of Honeyland are so rustically sumptuous that you wonder, for a second, if they’ve somehow been art-directed.
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Slant Magazine by Keith Watson

As the world continues to suffer ever-increasing mass die-offs of honeybee colonies, Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s film reminds us that there’s indeed a better way to interact with our planet—one rooted in patience, tradition, and a true respect for our surroundings.
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The Hollywood Reporter by Sheri Linden

As with any vérité portrait, there are many things that go unexplained. But the images tell us what we need to know: The unforced choreography between Hatidze and the bees.

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