HONEYLAND

By Ljubomir STEFANOV, Tamara KOTEVSKA

ORANGE ENTERTAINMENT - as BUYER REP

Documentary - Completed 2019

When nomadic beekeepers break Honeyland's basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees), the last female beehunter in Europe must save the bees and restore natural balance.

Festivals
& Awards

Sundance 2019
World Cinema Doc Competition
    • Year of production
    • 2019
    • Genres
    • Documentary
    • Countries
    • NORTH MACEDONIA
    • Languages
    • TURKISH
    • Duration
    • 85 mn
    • Director(s)
    • Ljubomir STEFANOV, Tamara KOTEVSKA
    • Producer(s)
    • Atanas GEORGIEV (Trice Films), Ljubomir STEFANOV (Apolo Media)
    • Synopsis
    • In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman in a bright yellow blouse and green headscarf, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently maneuvers the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Back at her homestead, Hatidze tends to her handmade hives and her bedridden mother, occasionally heading to the capital to market her wares. One day, an itinerant family installs itself next door, and Hatidze’s peaceful kingdom gives way to roaring engines, seven shrieking children, and 150 cows. Yet Hatidze welcomes the camaraderie, and she holds nothing back—not her tried-and-true beekeeping advice, not her affection, not her special brandy. But soon Hussein, the itinerant family’s patriarch, makes a series of decisions that could destroy Hatidze’s way of life forever.