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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.
Jul 26, 2019 | Theatrical Limited (56 locations)
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Jan 28, 2019 (Sundance Film Festival (USA))
Mar 28, 2019 (Hong Kong International Film Festival (Hong Kong))
Apr 8, 2019 ()
Apr 13, 2019 (Sarasota Film Festival (USA))
Apr 19, 2019 (San Francisco International Film Festival (USA))
Apr 24, 2019 (Moscow International Film Festival (Russia))
May 7, 2019 (IsReal Film Festival Sardinia (Italy))
May 7, 2019 (Montclair Film Festival (USA))
May 11, 2019 (Docs Against Gravity Film Festival (Poland))
May 18, 2019 (DocsBarcelona International Documentary Film Festival (Spain))
May 21, 2019 (Seattle International Film Festival (USA))
May 24, 2019 (DocAviv Film Festival (Israel))
May 29, 2019 (Krakow Film Festival (Poland))
Jun 1, 2019 (Berkshire International Film Festival (USA))
Jun 10, 2019 (Sydney Film Festival (Australia))
Jun 12, 2019 (Midnight Sun Film Festival (Finland))
Jun 13, 2019 (Provincetown International Film Festival (USA))
Jun 15, 2019 (Shanghai International Film Festival (China))
Jun 21, 2019 (Nantucket Film Festival (USA))
Aug 2, 2019 (Melbourne International Film Festival (Australia))
Aug 17, 2019 (Sarajevo Film Festival (Bosnia & Herzegovina))
Sep 10, 2019 (Ulju Mountain Film Festival (South Korea))
Sep 13, 2019 (Atlantic Film Festival (Canada))
Sep 17, 2019 (Manaki Brothers Film Festival (Republic of North Macedonia))
Sep 20, 2019 (Calgary Film Festival (Canada))
Sep 21, 2019 (Athens Film Festival (Greece))
Sep 22, 2019 (Helsinki International Film Festival (Finland))
Oct 7, 2019 (Brisbane Film Festival (Australia))
Oct 13, 2019 (Gent International Film Festival (Belgium))
Oct 13, 2019 (Film Festival Cologne (Germany))
Oct 18, 2019 (Mumbai Film Festival (India))
Oct 25, 2019 (Document Film Festival (UK))
Nov 4, 2019 (Minsk International Film Festival (Belarus))
Nov 10, 2019 (Camerimage International Film Festival (Poland))
Nov 15, 2019 (Tallinn Black Nights Film Festival (Estonia))
Nov 15, 2019 (Los Cabos International Film Festival (Mexico))
Jan 6, 2020 (Palm Springs International Film Festival (USA))
Feb 13, 2020 (TV premiere (Sweden))
Mar 18, 2020 (Sofia Film Festival (Bulgaria))
Mar 29, 2020 (TV premiere (Finland))
Jun 3, 2020 (Seoul International Agape Film Festival (South Korea))
Aug 23, 2020 (Beijing International Film Festival (China))
Sep 29, 2021 (dubbed version CCTV-6 TV premiere (China))
Oct 16, 2021 (Beijing: 2021 Swiss Documentary Film Festival (China))
$15,368
$815,082
$499,142
$1,314,224
Sound Mix: 6-Track Stereo
Aspect Ratio: 1.85 : 1
Country of Origin: North Macedonia
One of the last female wild beekeepers 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. This film which is filmed in Macedonia is an exploration of an observational Indigenous visual narrative that deeply impacts our behavior towards natural resources and the human condition. — Stef Fifty-something ethnic Turk Hatidze Muratova , never married, is the sole caregiver to her mostly blind and bedridden eighty-five year old mother Nazife Muratova , they living in the small, remote and barren longtime family shack with no electricity or indoor plumbing in rural and rugged North Macedonia. How Hatidze has largely survived over the course of her life is as a honey beekeeper, she cultivating her own hive from wild stocks, that cultivation along traditional and sustainable methods. Needing to travel the long distance by bus the couple of times a year, she sells her honey to public market vendors in Skopje – often at a premium due to the quality of the product largely for therapeutic purposes – and maintains good relationships with them. Married nomads Hussein Sam and Ljutvie Sam and their seven children set up their latest camp on a property next to Hatidze’s. While the Sams generally live as dairy farmers, locating wherever their animals can graze, Hussein decides to follow what looks to him to be Hatidze’s lucrative business by cultivating their own honey bee hives. What starts out as the cordial neighborly relationship which includes Hatidze imparting her beekeeping knowledge to Hussein, things take a turn when Hussein decides not to heed one key aspect of that knowledge which leads to disaster for them all, as such Hatidze needing to contemplate her future, especially upon what looks to the the imminent passing of her mother leaving her all alone in the world. — Huggo