. 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 . Honeyland (2019) 9 of 216. Its an avalanche of issues, said Julijana Daskalov, the foundations program manager. When we met Hatidze and consequently everyone else you see in the film, we made sure to let them know that we will be nothing more than silent observers of their lives. Sense of injustice lingers after Seoul Halloween crush, Chess gets a risqu makeover. The home she lives in was purchased for her by the documentary filmmakers after they won their first award at the Sarajevo film festival. 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 . [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. At Spains request, the European Court of Justice excluded Kosovo from participating in the Body of European Regulators for Electronic Communications (BEREC), the Court of Justice of the European Union informed. "They make you extremely creative, we thought of the solutions that turned out to be quite unique.". The film has already enabled Kotevska and Stefanov to buy Hatidze a house in another village, close to her brother's family. 1 movie of 2019. 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. "People love her. Honeyland was filmed over 100 separate days spread out over three years . Their conversations, which take place in the dark, cave-like interior of their home, are often quite funnythe daily bickering of two aging women. "And through that, even though her life is very harsh, Hatidze doesn't feel lonely.". WEB_1080P . 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. The arrival of a nomadic familytrailer, shabby cattle, kittens, and a litter of children in towshatters Hatidzes serene world, and that tension sets the dramatic stakes of the film. The story revolves around Hatidze, the last wild beekeeper, and her life philosophy on the exploitation of the natural resources. 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 her," Georgiev revealed. The BBC is not responsible for the content of external sites. Hatidze Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper who's at the heart of the film "Honeyland.". Honeyland is the story of Hatidze, a lone rural beekeeper in the spectacular, almost unpopulated Macedonian mountain countryside. [51] On Metacritic, it was ranked as the twenty-fourth-best film of 2019. She has survived for more than 50 years in the ruins of an abandoned village with no electricity or indoor plumbing, eking out her existence by journeying to the closest city to trade the honey for medicine and fruit. "Sarah Jessica Parker was very excited to meet her after seeing the film," "Honeyland" producer Atanas Georgiev told AFP. This was the beginning of a "crazy adventure" of three years, filming through scorching summers and freezing winters. And as humans, how could they ever not? Shes the only one remaining in this village to take care of her mother, because in the old tribe that she belongs to its a tradition that the last female takes care over the parents and doesnt have a family of her own, Kotevska. Interviews with leading film and TV creators about their process and craft. Until "Honeyland" -- the "non-fiction masterpiece" in which the village beekeeper appears -- won a record three awards at the Sundance film festival, Hatidze lived in a tiny mud and stone house without electricity and running water in the wilds of North Macedonia. . Hatide attended the event and performed two songs after receiving the award. This is exemplified when she chants "half for me, half for you" to her bees when collecting honey. Hatidze first appears on a dangerous cliff edge wearing no protective mask, a cloud of bees swarming as she removes honeycomb from a hive in rocks. And I can feel that she feels that this is not her only home.. [citation needed] In Australia and New Zealand, Honeyland was released by the production company Umbrella Films on 5 March 2020. "Not understanding Turkish was a problem during the shooting, but we decided to let them speak as they naturally would," says Kotevska. [36] In North Macedonia, the film had its premiere at the MakeDox Festival in Kurumli An on 28 August 2019, which was attended by the film crew and Hatide, and included a concert by Foltin. Most of the houses were still in ruins, slowly sliding into the undergrowth. Honeyland (Macedonian: , transliterated: Medena zemja) is a 2019 Macedonian documentary film that was directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. And then we started editing on mute just the visual narrative, Stefanov explained. Watch Kotevska and Stefanovs IDA Q&A below. 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. Nazife says she did not turn them down, but Hatidze's late father did. Help Mother Jones' reporters dig deep with a tax-deductible donation. We spotted Hatidze in the very beginning and just started shooting her. She says nothing to the camera as she heads to a cliffside spot with no signs -- the directions are known only to her. 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[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. 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 . by Gary Thompson Updated Aug 14, 2019 Already have an account? We see her climb to a beehive that is hidden behind a large rock. The film was initially planned as a short film documenting the region surrounding the river Bregalnica but its area of focus changed when the directors met Hatide. [14][35], The world premiere of Honeyland took place at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival on 28 January 2019. Agence France-presse / February 6, 2020 Deep within the Balkans, Hatidze Muratova is the last in a long line of Macedonian wild beekeepers. Sign up for the free Mother Jones Daily newsletter and follow the news that matters. 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. 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. To lessen the pressure on himself in refereeing the relationship, Mr. Georgiev created a foundation that works with the families independently of the crew. Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living . Both members of North Macedonias Turkish minority, Ms. Muratova, 56, and Mr. Sam, 70, have similar roots in rural poverty, but markedly different approaches to life. [28] They also set up a donation page supporting Hatide and the Sam kids on the film's website. It's us but for your ears. 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 . 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. [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. What caught the directors' interest early on was observing Hatidze's life and her relationship with her mother. And very happy to tell her story and her life to the world.. 2019 . Its distributor Neon gave it a theatrical release in the United States, opening on 26 July 2019. 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. [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. The atmosphere in the village changes when the nomadic rancher Hussein Sam arrives with his wife Ljutvie, their seven children, and their imported domestic animals. As the nomadic family decides to move to another village, Hatide remains alone in Bekirlija. According to Kotevska, they wanted to make sure the movie's narrative is completely understandable even if it is followed visually. Hatidze Muratova, the subject of the award-winning documentary 'Honeyland.' Neon A woman walks down a dusty, sunbaked road. Now the filmmakers are struggling to disentangle themselves from their subjects. ", join us with a tax-deductible donation today. She takes only half of the honey, leaving the rest for the bees. Now it has become the first film ever to get Oscar nominations for both best documentary and best foreign language movie, Hatidze has become a full-blown celebrity who gets stopped in the street by Hollywood stars. At its heart, this film is a character study, a meditation on the life of a woman who has carved out a precarious existence in an unforgiving place. While working on a short video commissioned by a nature conservancy project, the filmmakers met Hatidze Muratova, a middle-aged woman who ekes out a hardscrabble and solitary existence harvesting honey with ancient, sustainable methods across the craggy mountainous landscape of the former Yugoslav republic while caring for her half-blind and bedridden mother in a modest home without . In the film, Nazife never leaves the house, but her wisdom guides her daughter at the time of crisis. Honeyland received universal critical acclaim from film critics, who praised its attention to detail and applauded its conservationist message. Honeyland has much to say about conserving nature, but its lessons are also about human life and relationships. "The mother and daughter story is so beautiful and almost mythological, but with the honey, there is conflict, capitalism and consumerism. In Hatidze's family, learning the skill skipped a generation - she learned it as a girl from her grandfather, rather than her parents. [22] David Fear writing for Rolling Stone viewed it as a documentary that portrays "rural regionalism and lost art forms", also saying the directors ensured viewers are immersed in Hatide's way of living during the first half of the movie so they realize what is being lost during the latter half. The directors say that wild beekeeping was something that only a few people in the region learned how to do. Several environmental topics are explored, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and exploitation of natural resources. 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. Mr. Sam has a more haphazard way with his cows, viewing them almost as antagonists. I thought youd abandoned us.. It was very surprising because we didnt change what we put on the line. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. Georgiev realised they had something way beyond a morality tale about capitalism on their hands. [54] She also criticized the alleged romanticization and exploitation of the austere conditions of Hatides circumstance for the political message on sustainability, defining it a "morality tale about environmentalism and sustainability that borders on preaching.". 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. But Kotevska says that there was never any need for negotiation; from the first time she encountered the filmmakers, Hatidze wanted to get her story out to the world. The directors say the film profoundly changed their lives. For the film crew, said Ms. Muratova, it was more demanding to deal with us after the film than during the filming itself.. This becomes clear in Honeyland, an exquisitely photographed documentary by Macedonian filmmakers Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska. Honeyland (directed by Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov) is a documentary film that follows the life of a beekeeper, Hatidze Muratova, who lives with her elderly mother in an otherwise abandoned village in rural Macedonia. Her new neighbors dont share her philosophy of taking only whats needed from the bees. Reyseria: Tamara Kotevska Ljubomir Stefanov; Produkcja: Macedonia; . After another year editing, their first feature film was born. But the life that extends beyond the movie itself is still felt within it, still gestured toward and honored, by the close personal . Read full review. We began Honeyland in the framework of a nature conservation project. 2023 BBC. 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 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 . Watch out at the Oscars on Sunday for Hatidze Muratova. [30] Los Angeles Times journalist Justin Chang described it as one of the rare films that serve as an "intimately infuriating, methodically detailed allegory of the earth's wonders being ravaged by the consequences of human greed". And thats very pleasing in editing because it can become very boring seeing the same stuff again.. But the documentary doesnt teach us much about cultivating honey. 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 . By signing up, you agree to our privacy policy and terms of use, and to receive messages from Mother Jones and our partners. 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. [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. The eureka moment was when "Hatidze talked about half the honey being for the bees and half for her. Titles . In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Muratova told her story that begins in a poor rural village in North Macedonia, leading in Oscar nominees. Mr. Georgiev and Ms. Muratova visiting her new house in Dorfulija, which is still under construction. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Our fearless leader, Hatidze, climbs higher and higher until she stops at an unremarkable collection of rocks. This principle is based on the customs and traditions of her grandfather, who taught her bees need to use their own honey to obtain enough energy to fly and mate. But Kotevska's main impression of Los Angeles is: "From the tall buildings, I cannot see the stars.". Listen on Apple Podcasts. Most of the houses were still in ruins, slowly sliding into the undergrowth. Indeed, the contrast could not be more stark to Hatidze's solitary life in Bekirlija, where she tends her hives of wild bees, only ever taking half the honey so the bees would always have their due. Sign in Added Kotevska, That, for us, made it feel like we [were] watching a new film. The film shows that to be true of the people living in the region too. When the Sam family arrives, she welcomes them with an open heart, and teaches them how to harvest the wild honey. We are now very trained to see the stories that are created visually.". Hatidze lives in a village that is close to her brother relatives. She is an incredible woman, a natural optimist. "Ljubo Stefanov. We have no option but to cope with it somehow," said Georgiev, who also edited the film. First we spent three and a half months, four months, just watching the material, the whole material. Meanwhile, someone had pilfered Ms. Muratovas honey, and she blamed Mr. Sam. [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". Beekeeper Hatidze Muratova leads the filmmakers to the very . Nevertheless she still spends the bee season in her old village. For more information about the series, and a complete schedule, visit IDA. But it's a message which is in danger of being lost in the modern world. Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov are expected to attend all screenings. 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. The film depicts how Ms. Muratova and Hussein Sam, a seminomadic farmer tried to coexist in one of the poorest pockets of North Macedonia. jQuery(document).ready(function(){prx("https:\/\/play.prx.org\/e?uf=http%3A%2F%2Ffeeds.feedburner.com%2Fbite-podcast&ge=gid%3A%2F%2Fart19-episode-locator%2FV0%2F_uYi-ThU9eQ57xy7hFwuLPL1rVvIRn7uZxGyUXEW1Jg", "prx-3", "embed")});Listen to the latest episode of Bite: Subscribe using Apple Podcasts, Spotify, Stitcher, or your favorite podcast app. Hatidze deals out the honey in 'Honeyland' Honeyland is a deceptively sweet title for a documentary about a lonely life spent in a harsh, barren landscape. Although initially reluctant to participate in the documentary, Hatide agreed to get involved to send a message of sustainable living to the world. Hatidze says her bees are uniquely resilient and can survive very high and very low temperature, unlike many other species. The documentary also portrays Hatide's relationships with her bedridden mother and her neighbors. She has become a star. [11] The directors decided to collaborate with Foltin on the movie's score because they deemed Foltin original and capable of creating music specifically tailored for the documentary. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? Hatidze is the protagonist of Honeyland, a 2019 Sundance Grand Jury Prize-winning documentary directed by the Macedonian duo of Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov. (Credit: Ljubo Stefanov/Trice Films) Get The Latest IndieWire Alerts And Newsletters Delivered Directly To Your Inbox. And now, as Hollywood movie stars are tweeting their support for the artistic movie, pictures of her new house were released. The directors focused only on the visuals without making use of audio recordings or transcripts. And, like the jobs in the village of Bekirlija, the making of the film was shared between Stefanov and Kotevska, who is one of only a handful of female directors to be nominated for an Oscar this year. Perhaps this is why the most arresting imagery comes early on, before Hussein's family arrives kicking up dust with their animals and trucks. Save big on a full year of investigations, ideas, and insights. Hatidze Muratova. Sundance 2023: Slashed Streaming Budgets and Theatrical Woes Won't Dampen Sales [40] According to the website's critical consensus, "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". 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