DIRECTOR: Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov
PRODUCER: Atanas Georgiev
PRODUCTION CO: Trice Films, Apolo Media
PHOTOGRAPHY: Fejmi Daut, Samir Ljuma
EDITOR: Atanas Georgiev
MUSIC: Foltin
WITH: Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam, Ljutvie Sam, Mustafa Sam

FESTIVALS: Sundance

REVIEW

“Nestled in an isolated region deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova lives with her ailing mother in a village without roads, electricity, or running water. She’s the last in a long line of Macedonian beekeepers, eking out a living farming honey in small batches to be sold in the closest city. When an itinerant family arrives, Hatidze’s peaceful existence faces upheaval. Though she optimistically offers the family her beepkeeping advice, the family’s patriarch soon casts Hatidze’s advice aside in his hunt for profit – causing a breach in the natural order and threatening her means of survival.

The debut feature from documentarians Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska, Honeyland is a portrait of the delicate balance between humankind and nature, a glimpse at a fast disappearing way of life, and a testament to one extraordinary woman’s resilience.”
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— TIFF
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“In Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska’s painstaking observational documentary, everything from the honey upwards is organic. Shot over three years, with no voiceover or interviews to lead the narrative, “Honeyland” begins as a calm, captured-in-amber character study, before stumbling upon another, more conflict-driven story altogether… As a plain environmental allegory blossoms without contrivance from the cracks, Stefanov and Kotevska’s ravishingly shot debut accrues a subtle power…”

​– Variety

FILM SOCIETY SCREENINGS

Carterton   
Friday, 24 February, 7.00pm

Tauranga
Tuesday, 07 March, 6.00pm

Hamilton  
Monday, 20 March, 6.30pm

Auckland   
Monday, 27 March, 6:15pm

Nelson     
Tuesday, 11 April, 6.00pm

​Whanganui   
Monday, 24 April, 7.00pm​

Palmerston North  
Wednesday, 03 May, 6.00pm

Dunedin
Wednesday, 24 May, 7.30pm​

Wellington
Monday, 19 June, 6.15pm

​Canterbury   
Monday, 17 July, 7.00pm

Timaru
​Tuesday, 21 November, 6.00pm

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