Honeyland chronicles a period of Hatidze's life when her ancient methods of beekeeping came up against, and conflicted with, those of a newcomer to her remote home region. Their avarice, and the events that soon unfold, haveled many critics to praise the film as an allegory for the modern worlds impact on our most fragile ecosystems. The film shows that to be true of the people living in the region too. [14] Upon arriving at the location, the film crew was introduced to Hatide. ", join us with a tax-deductible donation today. Today, about 78,000 ethnic Turks still live in North Macedonia, making up just under 4% of the country's population of 2.1 million. [25], The film's score was composed and performed by the Macedonian band Foltin under the musical supervision of Rana Eid from the production company DB Studios in Beirut, Lebanon. Hyperallergic speaks to the directors of the first film nominated for both the Best Documentary . In one scene, one of the young sons is shown helping a cow give birth, while another boy attempts milking with his father nearby. (2019)/(),(),Honeyland. In the film, relations between Ms. Muratova and Mr. Sam were bad; Mr. Sam ignored Ms. Muratovas advice about how to start his own bee colony, leading his bees to attack hers and ruining Ms. Muratovas entire livelihood. Hatidze Muratova,a beekeeper and the star of Honeyland, at her home in the remote mountain village of Bekirlija in North Macedonia. Despite his initial success, one of Sam's customers demands more honey than his bees can produce. You havent been calling, Mr. Sam said. Both the Sams and Hatidze's family are ethnic Turks and they speak in Turkish dialect throughout the film. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares. Neon. This is how we found our protagonist. The woman's name is Hatidze. Having lived 56 years quite happily without television, Hatidze wasn't all that aware of "Sex and the City", although she graciously told the star-struck actress's fortune "by reading the coffee grains in bottom of her cup.". What happened to Hatidze after Honeyland's opening sequence led Stefanov and Kotevska to devote three more years to filming her story and another year editing the four hundred hours of footage into eighty-five minutes. Ms. Muratova, pouring some honey for her guests at her home in Bekirlija. When the rules are broken, everyone pays the price. Hatidze generously imparts her methods to him but, pressured by money-grubbing marketeers, he disregards the half-for-them-half-for-us rule and wreaks havoc on the region's beekeeping . . But it is also kind of a payback, Mr. Georgiev said. So all the scenes with the dialogue, particularly, we didnt know whats going on there. Directors After Hollywood, she will head there again in the spring and watch the stars from her little stone hut. Shot over three years, this elegant film . [19] Michael O'Sullivan from The Washington Post also found a prominent, cautionary message about the consequences of disrupting the universe's equilibrium. Now this place and these people are different, said a wistful Ljubomir Stefanov, one of the films two co-directors, sitting in Ms. Muratovas garden. All Rights Reserved. Honeyland revolves around her work as a wild bee keeper, as she ekes out a living in the rugged parts of the Ovce Pole plateau. We see her climb to a beehive that is hidden behind a large rock. Hatidze Muratova's grandfather taught her to harvest honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. "People love her. We have no option but to cope with it somehow," said Georgiev, who also edited the film. [17][18], Starting in 2015, the documentary was filmed over three years and the final version was condensed from more than 400 hours of footage. It was very surprising because we didnt change what we put on the line. Fejmi Daut, one of the documentary's cinematographers, said the lack of electricity in the village meant the production crew relied on daylight, candles, gaslight and a fireplace to achieve desired image quality. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Hatidze lives in a village that is close to her brother relatives. The film was shot on a shoestring budget, but grossed a little over $1 million, and turned its makers into darlings of the documentary circuit. In addition to finding Ms. Muratova a new house, he and his team bought Mr. Sam a new truck and fixed his familys chimney. The film has already enabled Kotevska and Stefanov to buy Hatidze a house in another village, close to her brother's family. Like, for example, in the winter, when mother said there will be spring, something like that, was very [profound], he said. In an interview, Hatide said she views her work as a means of restoring the ecosystem's balance. The content you requested does not exist or is not available anymore. She is an incredible woman, a natural optimist. You can't miss her. Critic A.O. [11][12] The project was also part of the Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation's program for preservation of North Macedonia's natural resources. [59][60] In February 2020, the documentary won an award in the category of Best International Success at the 23rd Golden Ladybug of Popularity Awards in North Macedonia. Mr. Sam has a more haphazard way with his cows, viewing them almost as antagonists. Self: Honeyland. But under pressure to produce more from a local merchant, he breaks Hatidze's golden rule of leaving half for the bees, with disastrous consequences for everyone. In need of money, and inspired by Hatide's way of earning money, Sam takes an interest in wild beekeeping himself. . I think of an early shot of Hatidze sitting next to her mother in their dark, one-room home: she's gently lit, in her golden shirt . It's a poem including history"[19] and listed the film as best pick for 2019. It's us but for your ears. What caught the directors' interest early on was observing Hatidze's life and her relationship with her mother. Those with more knowledge than I have of beekeeping may appreciate the details better, but the extra hardships that come to . [47] Ed Potton of The Times, who gave the film four stars out of five, said "[a]lthough it starts as a meditation on the hardship and rhythms of rural life, [the film] becomes something more intimate". As the nomadic family decides to move to another village, Hatide remains alone in Bekirlija. Critics have viewed it as a film that also explores anthropological topics. Sucked into the dispute, the crew tried to stay neutral by providing legal assistance to both parties, and they mediated an agreement by which Ms. Muratova would withdraw her complaint in exchange for Mr. Sams promise to abide by a set of principles about his future behavior. 99+ Photos Documentary Drama The last female bee-hunter in Europe must save the bees and return the natural balance in Honeyland, when a family of nomadic beekeepers invade her land and threaten her livelihood. [14], The documentary uses fly on the wall style;[22] it does not use any voice-overs and subjects filmed do not look directly at the camera, which gives it an "invisible" quality. It's been exactly two years, and it's now time to say thank you and goodbye. Added Kotevska, That, for us, made it feel like we [were] watching a new film. After another year editing, their first feature film was born. [15] The film was going to focus on Hatide's relationship with her mother and the directors had no conflict planned until the nomad family arrived sometime later. Its distributor Neon gave it a theatrical release in the United States, opening on 26 July 2019. In a hint to the scene in the movie where she is purchasing hair dye, Hatidze had a new hairstyle done at the Iv studio in Skopje. Hatidze Muratova. But the Honeyland directors, together with two cameramen, spent three years, on and off, visiting these families. Culture 06.02.2020 / 14:39. [32] The documentary's producer Atanas Georgiev said the production team was "very eager" to send the message of sustainability to the citizens and the government of North Macedonia, and to prompt action to improve the country's air quality and reduce pollution.[33]. 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Because the crew couldn't understand the old Ottoman Turkish dialect she spoke to her mother, Georgiev did the first rough edit on mute. This kind of involvement is partly a self-interested act, Mr. Georgiev said a means of both salving the crews conscience for deriving professional benefit from the lives of both Mr. Sam and Ms. Muratova, and warding off public criticism. In a simpler world, Mr. Georgiev, Mr. Stefanov and his co-director, Tamara Kotevska, would be basking in their newfound success, and focusing on new projects. Still, the transformation of Ms. Muratovas life is not necessarily something to mourn, Mr. Stefanov said. by Gary Thompson Updated Aug 14, 2019 Already have an account? [48] Rating it with four stars out of five, Helen O'Hara of Empire magazine, summed up the film as "[s]tunningly 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". what happened to Hatidze might be easier to understand, because they . Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Hatide lives with her 85-year-old, partly blind and bedridden mother Nazife, who is completely dependent on her daughter. One can also call it fake.". Directors Tamara Kotevska, Ljubomir Stefanov Starring Hatidze Muratova, Nazife Muratova, Hussein Sam Genres Drama, Documentary, Special Interest Subtitles None available [25][26] The camerawork, which is steady during the first half of the movie, later becomes less steady with the arrival of the nomadic neighbors. 8.0 1 h 29 min 2019 NR Haditze Muratova, the last of the Macedonian wild beekeepers, sees her peaceful existence threatened by the arrival of her new neighbors. Then Mr. Sam wanted help with a grant application, and griped about the problem with the well. Honeyland. [26], Honeyland was ranked as the third-best documentary and twelfth-best foreign film of 2019 in a survey of over 300 critics around the world conducted by IndieWire. We are now very trained to see the stories that are created visually.". [citation needed] In Australia and New Zealand, Honeyland was released by the production company Umbrella Films on 5 March 2020. "She finds happiness and companionship in every living creature around her. The images in Honeyland are stunning.The film opens with images of a wide mountainous landscape, through which a tiny figure navigates. According to Kotevska, virtually none of the film's scenes are inauthentic the only part that had to be recreated was the Sams arrival in the village, which the filmmakers had missed their first year of filming. [29], According to Stefanov, the directors' main focuses in Honeyland were climate change, biodiversity loss exemplified by the decline of the bee population,[30] and the use of natural resources. Now the filmmakers find themselves unable to leave entirely serving as mediators to, and occasionally protagonists in, the local tensions to which they once only bore witness. "[50] Sheena Scott from Forbes shared Sims's sentiments, writing that "it is the moments of intimacy that make this film so unique and beautiful". Gently placing it into Nazife's hands, the old woman's ruined face (one eye has been destroyed by a wound or infection . [19] Due to the remoteness of Bekirlija, the production team stayed there for three-to-four consecutive days before going to nearby towns for supplies and to recharge their filming equipment. Kotevska says that the directors do not want to portray the Sam family as symbols of destruction, but merely as "the mirror to all of us who make bad decisions", based on the need to survive and provide. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Muratova told her story that begins in a poor rural village in North Macedonia, leading in Oscar nominees. We spotted Hatidze in the very beginning and just started shooting her. But as often happens with the best documentaries, the filmmakers got lucky, because the movie they thought they were making a slice of life about a beekeeper became something more, a story about character and . At her old home in Bekirlija, she proudly unveiled her latest bowl of liquid honey. But the documentary doesnt teach us much about cultivating honey. Their conversations, which take place in the dark, cave-like interior of their home, are often quite funnythe daily bickering of two aging women. The situation depicted in Honeyland is one in which the inept neighbours arriving with their cattle soon add beekeeping to their livelihood but do so in ways that put profits first and come to threaten Hatidze's bees. The documentary Honeyland premiered at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, where it was the most awarded film, winning the Grand Jury Prize, Special Jury Award for Impact for Change, and the Special Jury Award for Cinematography in the World Cinema Documentary competition. It won three prizes at the prestigious Sundance Film Festival and was nominated for best documentary and best international feature at this years Academy Awards. Life was hard but peaceful in this forgotten corner of the Balkans. Informacje o filmie. Inexpensive, too! [36] One mixed review came from Stephen Whitty writing for Screen Daily, who praised the painstaking filming and imagery but said its "commercial future seems limited" and that it "leaves plenty of questions and, occasionally, its audience behind". Macedonian directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov were researching in a remote mountainous area of the country for a short nature documentary. Her life perks. [16] Hatide and the nomad family were camera-shy at first but became used to the process as filming progressed. She has been making a living by farming honey and selling it in the closest city for her whole life, following one simple, but crucial rule - take half the honey and leave the other half to the bees. Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov are expected to attend all screenings. When an unruly family moves in next door, what at first seems like a balm for her solitude becomes a source of tension as they, too, want to practice beekeeping, while disregarding her advice. So she was very happy to participate in this. But it has still connected with a worldwide audience through the protagonists' body language, relationships and emotions. Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. Tamara Kotevska . The documentary received numerous awards and nominations at film festivals, including three awards at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival and two nominations at the 92nd Academy Awards in the categories for Best International Feature Film and Best Documentary Feature . Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. [57] Kotevska and Stefanov also started a campaign titled Donate for the Honeyland Community that sends jars of natural honey to donors of a fund that benefits Hatide and her neighbors. "When we came to editing, we spent a week or more just being completely stuck. Hatidze Muratova, the star of the documentary Honeyland, was given a new house by the producers of the double Oscar nominated movie. "Ljubo Stefanov. Honeyland has a strong ecological message, but it's the life story of the woman at the centre of the film that has struck a chord around the world. But her quiet existence is fundamentally changed when the nomadic Sam family, consisting of parents with seven unruly children, a noisy vehicle and a large herd of cattle, moves into the village. The lives of two Turkish beekeepers make for a riveting metaphor for environmental. The crew of Honeyland spent years filming the day-to-day lives of Hatidze, her mother and her neighbors, and distilled all of their practices and chance encounters into a film just short of an hour and a half. According to Kotevska, they wanted to make sure the movie's narrative is completely understandable even if it is followed visually. "This was the most valuable lesson for us as the authors of the future films. Mr. Georgiev and Ms. Muratova visiting her new house in Dorfulija, which is still under construction. He takes all the honey from his own hives, but his bees respond to this by attacking Hatidze's hives, leading to their destruction, and a conflict between the human neighbours. The Salt Massive Loss Of Thousands Of Hives Afflicts Orchard Growers And Beekeepers It's a solitary, hardscrabble existence, and Hatidze doesn't enjoy being cut off from the world. Honeyland was filmed over 100 separate days spread out over three years . Audience ratings certified by ACPM/OJD. Even if Im in a film, she said, Im still going to take care of my bees.. When Hatidze went for a dress fitting for the Oscars in the North Macedonian capital Skopje, it took "20 minutes for her to walk 200 metres because so many people wanted to have a selfie with. From the start, Georgiev said they were very aware about their responsibilities to their subjects and the eco-system -- both natural and human -- that they come from. Description. 9 of 216. Hatidze Muratova in "Honeyland." (Neon) But "Honeyland" is not a fictional story about a good woman and an evil man; Hussein Sam's a desperate mannine mouths to feed is a massive . It took filmmakers Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov three years of filming in the remote countryside of Macedonia to capture the footage they used in their Sundance-winning documentary, Honeyland, about Hatidze Muratova, a rural Macedonian woman who has dedicated her life to beekeeping. [13], Initially, the directors were planning to focus on the rotational farming practices of villagers inhabiting the area around Bregalnica. France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines. A.O. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Honeyland (Macedonian: , transliterated: Medena zemja) is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. "Everything we've heard from Hatidze refers to bees. Hatidze lives in Bekirlija, an abandoned village with no electricity, running water or roads, where she looks after her ailing mother. In Hatidze's family, learning the skill skipped a generation - she learned it as a girl from her grandfather, rather than her parents. [20] Josh Kupecki from the Austin Chronicle said Honeyland successfully depicts the way "capitalism functions even in the most rural areas". "To be able to communicate with bees you need to have a personal strength to approach them, patience to learn how to tame them, and this way of life requires not force but wisdom," says Kotevska. "Not understanding Turkish was a problem during the shooting, but we decided to let them speak as they naturally would," says Kotevska. And then she said that this is something she was thinking of a lot how to find a way to tell her story to the world. Hatidze Muratova lives in a remote area of Macedonia and has one simple rule: When you harvest honey, you take half and leave the other half for the bees. When they were asking for my hand?, Hatidze seems to wonder about the paths her life might have taken. Terms of Service apply. We were very shocked to see this because it was obviously handmade, said Kotevska, and we started asking the locals around who they belonged to, who made them, and why. Filming of Honeyland lasted three years, and 400 hours of footage was filmed. Sign Up: Stay on top of the latest breaking film and TV news! [31] Sheena Scott, writing for Forbes, said Sam's actions were motivated by profit "to the detriment of a more suitable sustainable way of living". She lives with her ailing mother in a shack in a deserted village, without electricity, void of every convenience. Influencers: Profiles of a Partnership 2022, How to Pitch Stories and Articles to IndieWire, Sundance 2023: 17 Films That Could Sell Big Among a Diverse Lineup, Sundance 2023: Slashed Streaming Budgets and Theatrical Woes Won't Dampen Sales, 7 New Netflix Shows in October 2022 -- and the Best Reasons to Watch. Several environmental topics are explored, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of natural resources. But Kotevska's main impression of Los Angeles is: "From the tall buildings, I cannot see the stars.". They have since helped set Hatidze up in a new winter home close to her relatives in the "nearest village to civilisation". That is until their nomadic neighbours, Hussein and Ljutvie Sam, moved in with their unruly herd of children, cows and chickens. The shoot lasted three years, with co-directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov camping in the village with their cameramen until their batteries would run out -- since there was no electricity for miles. In one scene of the film, Hatidze asks her mother why she turned down offers of marriage that were brought for Hatidze. Hatide earns a living by selling honey in the country's capital Skopje, which is four hours away from the village. Scott from The New York Times praised the directors for "render[ing] the thick complexity of experience with poignant clarity" and called the film "quiet, intimate and intense, but touched with a breath of epic grandeur. That scene where she's taking the honey, she's saying, "Half for me and half for you." That was . (Her last name, Muratova, is seen in the end credits.) [43] Bob Verini of Variety deemed it a "rare film that would be a strong contender in either [Academy Awards] category, in any year" due to its "strong geopolitical resonance and visual splendor". Nevertheless she still spends the bee season in her old village. , One of Europe's Last Wild Beekeepers Fights Environmental and Economic Hardships. Honeyland is the first film to compete for both the best documentary award and best international feature film. This approach was followed during the post-production stages and the first six months of the rough cut, which together lasted approximately 12 months. Honeyland opens this way: near-wordlessly, attending to the rituals of Hatidze's day, her trips to the nearest city to sell her honey. They slept in tents and hammocks in front of Hatide's house. 7 New Netflix Shows in October 2022 -- and the Best Reasons to Watch. This was the most powerful sentence," he said. "They make you extremely creative, we thought of the solutions that turned out to be quite unique.". When Hatidze went for a dress fitting for the Oscars in the North Macedonian capital Skopje, it took "20 minutes for her to walk 200 metres because so many people wanted to have a selfie with. [58], Honeyland was the most awarded movie at the 2019 Sundance Movie Festival, winning awards in three categories, including the 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. WEB_1080P . Hatidze Muratova is a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish ethnicity: Outside, she sings to the bees that she tends with an expert, traditional hand. VideoChess gets a risqu makeover, The Nigerian influencers paid to manipulate your vote, How a baffling census delay is hurting Indians, How Mafia boss was caught at a clinic after 30 years. Ms. Muratova never married, while Mr. Sam and his wife, Ljutvie, have eight rambunctious children. Films selected for the Series receive exclusive access to an audience of tastemakers and doc lovers during the important Awards campaigning season from September through November. The story that unfolds in "Honeyland" is such a perfect parable of our times as we fret over the planet, that the New York Times declared it "the best movie of the year". The untouched nature of Hatidze's home couldn't be further away from the glitz and glamour of film festivals. . Life is not an infinite process it has phases, he said. Hatidze gets very close to the bees, often using no protection. [31] Rating it with three stars out of four, Michael O'Sullivan from The Washington Post said despite the worthwhile patience it requires from viewers, the film "sneaks up on you in a quiet yet powerful way". Honeyland's central character, Hatidze Muratowa, a traditional beekeeper in rural Macedonia is one such. Usually you dont interfere with your protagonists but as soon as we realized Honeyland would be very successful, we thought we had to do something.. Will They Ever Leave? [42] In a separate year-end review, Scott and Manohla Dargis of the same newspaper named Honeyland the best film of 2019, and called it "nothing less than a found epic". "I think she put a spell on us all, so that we would look after her daughter when she was gone," he said. [22] Another theme covered in the movie is the motherdaughter relationship between Hatide and her bedridden mother, which cinematographer Ljuma and Kotevska described as resembling that between a queen bee and a worker bee. Related But he thinks there was other magic also at work from her late mother, the "queen bee" of the piece. A volunteer social worker now helps both families overcome a never-ending list of logistical and social challenges, including setting up bank accounts and enrolling them in social security. Using prize money won by the film, he and his colleagues had found her a new house in Dorfulija, a larger and wealthier village about half an hours drive away. Sundance 2023: Slashed Streaming Budgets and Theatrical Woes Won't Dampen Sales The roof still needs some work, but the inside is mostly done. Just as worker bees spend their entire lives taking care of the queen bee which never leaves the hive, Hatidze has committed her own life to the care of her blind and paralyzed . Honeyland. Honeyland follows the day-to-day life of Hatidze Muratova, one of the last "bee-hunters", as she cultivates honey from the mountains of Macedonia. Most of the houses were still in ruins, slowly sliding into the undergrowth. Honeyland documents the life of Hatide Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish descent, who lives in the village of Bekirlija in the municipality of Lozovo. And bees do fill the filmflitting in and out of the frame, stinging hapless neighbors, and alchemizing the harsh landscape into molten gold. She described Hatide's case as a portrayal of "how consumerism destroys natural resources completely". What happened in the Ukraine helicopter crash? When we first meet Hatidze, she is ascending the path from the rustic homestead she shares with her dying mother and her dog, Jackie, in search of wild bees in the surrounding hills. Aremote village in the mountains of Macedonia is the setting for Honeyland, a documentary by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov that follows Hatidze Muratova as she maneuvers through . And that change speaks to a wider ethical conundrum that Mr. Stefanov and his colleagues have grappled with since finishing filming one that has long troubled documentary filmmakers. In the film, she develops a special bond with one of the Sam boys. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently manoeuvres the honeycomb without netting or gloves. As observers, should they ever help their subjects? "The love that she was keeping for a family of her own, that never came true, eventually went to the bees," says Kotevska. The most awarded film at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival . 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