[53], Dina Iordanova, an academic of world cinema at the University of St. Andrews criticized the directors' claim that the movie was not scripted or re-enacted and questioned the authenticity of the documentary in her review published in Docalogue. "Honeyland" introduces us to Hatidze Muratova, a great character and a natural-born movie star. We see her climb to a beehive that is hidden behind a large rock. The Oscar race is in full swing, and all eyes are on the big contenders: "Joker"! [66], Other languages spoken in the film include, Swiss Agency for Development and Cooperation, San Francisco International Film Festival, American Society of Cinematographers Awards, DallasFort Worth Film Critics Association, International Documentary Association Awards, Washington D.C. 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The home she lives in was purchased for her by the documentary filmmakers after they won their first award at the Sarajevo film festival. We stuck to our promise and we followed them as unobtrusively as possible for 3 years. Hatidze Muratova in Honeyland (2019) Close. Directors Tamara Kotevska and Ljubomir Stefanov are expected to attend all screenings. Hatidze Muratova, a Macedonian beekeeper who's at the heart of the film "Honeyland.". [51] On Metacritic, it was ranked as the twenty-fourth-best film of 2019. 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. A conflict played out between human neighbours is also mirrored by the bees. 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. [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 stylists shared her pictures, saying she is now ready to . It's been exactly two years, and it's now time to say thank you and goodbye. 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. The death of Hatidzes two sisters has tasked her with caring for her dying mother alone. And now, as Hollywood movie stars are tweeting their support for the artistic movie, pictures of her new house were released. Ms. Muratova had lost her new house key, so the producer had to find the workman with the spare. They slept in tents and hammocks in front of Hatide's house. She hikes along a mountain ridge, prying a small, flat slab from the. [10] The movie was originally intended as government-funded documentary short focusing on the Bregalnica river and the preservation of the surrounding region in Lozovo municipality, central North Macedonia. . But she wasnt shy, and eventually allowed Kotevska and Stefanov to film her. hours of footage, honeyland centers on hatidze, a woman in her mid-fifties (we learn she was born in 1964) who sustains herself and her elderly, infirm mother with her honey business, keeping rows and rows of bees on their small plot in a rural (and apparently otherwise abandoned) town a four-hour walk from the city 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.". She lives with her mother and is her care-taker, although . [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. As Kotevska put it, this was her way of liberation.. The lives of two Turkish beekeepers make for a riveting metaphor for environmental. WEB_1080P . 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. "Everything we've heard from Hatidze refers to bees. But it is also kind of a payback, Mr. Georgiev said. One day, the Sam family, nomadic cattle farmers who speak the same archaic Turkish dialect as Haditze and her mother, install their caravan right next to the women's house. 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. Hatide lives with her 85-year-old, partly blind and bedridden mother Nazife, who is completely dependent on her daughter. 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. Hatidze Muratova, the star of the documentary Honeyland, was given a new house by the producers of the double Oscar nominated movie. She has been working with the bees all her life and everything she has learned, she learned from them.". Today, reader support makes up about two-thirds of our budget, allows us to dig deep on stories that matter, and lets us keep our reporting free for everyone. Scott from The New York Times viewed Hatide as a "heroic figure" who sends a message to her "wasteful, wanton neighbors". (and find out what happened to Hatidze). [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. 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. You can see how unjust life was to her, because shes the greatest extrovert and artist youll ever meet, and yet shes trapped all her life in this abandoned area, and given the burden to take care of her mother, Kotevska said. [23] Austin Chronicle's Josh Kupecki said the documentary is ultimately a "broader impact of humanity (in all its messy glory), and a document of so many things: grief, loss, happiness, and joy". Hatidze gets very close to the bees, often using no protection. [39] As of July 2021, Honeyland has grossed $815,082 in the US and Canada, and $499,955 in other territories, making a worldwide gross of $1,315,037. [62][34] It is also the second Macedonian film to earn an Oscar nomination after Before the Rain (1994). According to Kotevska, they wanted to make sure the movie's narrative is completely understandable even if it is followed visually. Squeezed between two rocky hills and circled by imperial eagles, the village was still reachable only in an off-road vehicle, via a steep, rutted track. And then we started editing on mute just the visual narrative, Stefanov explained. he, out of greed, breaks Honeyland's basic rule (take half of the honey, but leave half to the bees); she, the last female beehunter in Europe, is left to save the bees and restore natural . She lives with her ailing mother in a shack in a deserted village, without electricity, void of every convenience. 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. ", Hatidze has travelled to Hollywood for the Oscars ceremony, and she has also been to several other film festivals, in places as far apart as New York, Switzerland, Sarajevo and Turkey. Added Kotevska, That, for us, made it feel like we [were] watching a new film. She lives in the ruins of a farming village several hours from the capital city of Skopje, a 50 . Critic A.O. 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. "And through that, even though her life is very harsh, Hatidze doesn't feel lonely.". Gender shouldn't be the topic of discussion. [20] The production involved a crew of six: the two directors, two directors of photography, an editor, and a sound engineer. Beekeeper Hatidze Muratova leads the filmmakers to the very . But it's a message which is in danger of being lost in the modern world. Honeyland was filmed over 100 separate days spread out over three years . Anyone can read what you share. [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". [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. We are now very trained to see the stories that are created visually.". 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 . She says that beekeeping has made Hatidze such a remarkable person. When the rules are broken, everyone pays the price. Every time she has a new person coming to her door, she starts singing to them to break the ice. She also sings to the bees, a technique that appears to quell their stings. "So, Hatidze's destiny was to stay and take care of her parents.". Hatidze lives in a village that is close to her brother relatives. We are filmmakers, not social workers.. But Ms. Muratovas cramped, dark living room, site of the movies most moving scene, no longer felt lived in. But theres another dimension to Hatidzes story that, for me, elevates the film above a simple fable about human greed. At her old home in Bekirlija, she proudly unveiled her latest bowl of liquid honey. 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. 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. 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. 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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. Hatidze lives with her ailing mother in the mountains of Macedonia, making a living cultivating honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. Copyright 2023 Mother Jones and the Foundation for National Progress. 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. July 26, 2019 11:07 pm. Georgiev said it didn't quite fall so easily from the sky. "We were doing it by instinct, and then as soon as we got the translations the plot was all there. 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. [20][35] The finished film includes six of the twenty-five scenes portraying the relationship between the two. [5][6], On the review aggregator website Rotten Tomatoes, Honeyland has an approval rating of 100% based on 124 reviews, and an average rating of 8.4/10. Honeyland. IndieWire is a part of Penske Media Corporation. But in relative terms, the period depicted in the film proved to be a rare period of calm in a conflict that had begun long before filming started, and which has escalated since it finished. Hatidze Muratova, a 50-something woman, is . It was very surprising because we didnt change what we put on the line. The images in Honeyland are stunning.The film opens with images of a wide mountainous landscape, through which a tiny figure navigates. As observers, should they ever help their subjects? The HONEYLAND story began long before humans ever lived in the region, but our narrative starts with its last two remaining inhabitants: Hatidze and her mother Nazife. When matchmakers were coming, you didnt accept any? she asks her mother. The film has already enabled Kotevska and Stefanov to buy Hatidze a house in another village, close to her brother's family. ", join us with a tax-deductible donation today. (2019)/(),(),Honeyland. I thought youd abandoned us.. This was the most powerful sentence," he said. It's us but for your ears. [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. In a deserted Macedonian village, Hatidze, a 50-something woman, trudges up a hillside to check her bee colonies nestled in the rocks. In one scene, one of the young sons is shown helping a cow give birth, while another boy attempts milking with his father nearby. The directors say that wild beekeeping was something that only a few people in the region learned how to do. 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. "Sarah Jessica Parker was very excited to meet her after seeing the film," "Honeyland" producer Atanas Georgiev told AFP. Mr. Sam has a more haphazard way with his cows, viewing them almost as antagonists. 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. Kotevska says that many people assume that she, as a woman, was the one who was closer to Hatidze, and Stefanov with the boys from the other family. After another year editing, their first feature film was born. 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. Ms. Muratova never married, while Mr. Sam and his wife, Ljutvie, have eight rambunctious children. France 24 is not responsible for the content of external websites. She now divides her time between the two villages. We spent hours just thinking what to do with this material. The woman is Hatidze Muratova, believed to be the last female . And this is how we came to it. A "Honeyland" foundation for her, the Sam family and the wider community, is up and running, with internet donors getting some of their wild "bio honey" in the post. Kotevska says they were struck by how similar Hatidze was to a worker bee and how her mother resembled the queen bee. Hatidze Muratova's grandfather taught her to harvest honey using ancient beekeeping traditions. Watch Kotevska and Stefanovs IDA Q&A below. Hatidze Muratova, a 50-something woman, is, along with her ill mother Nazife, the last true resident of their rural village. [citation needed] In the UK, it was released on DVD and Blu-ray disc by Dogwoof on 24 February 2020; the disc includes deleted scenes and a theatrical trailer. With eight hungry mouths to feed, Hussein tries his hand at honey. 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. But the Honeyland directors, together with two cameramen, spent three years, on and off, visiting these families. Can you pitch in a few bucks to help fund Mother Jones' investigative journalism? And even with her newfound fame, Ms. Muratova said she still remained true to her vocation. In need of money, and inspired by Hatide's way of earning money, Sam takes an interest in wild beekeeping himself. Inexpensive, too! So this is her wish, in a way. BEKIRLIJA, North Macedonia When the producer and two directors of Honeyland returned to the setting of their documentary in North Macedonia for the first time since it earned two Oscar nominations in February, something fundamental had changed. Mother Jones was founded as a nonprofit in 1976 because we knew corporations and billionaires wouldn't fund the type of hard-hitting journalism we set out to do. Complicating matters: They didn't speak Turkish, the preferred language of the film's main subjects both Hatidze and her new neighbors who moved in a few months into the shoot and disrupted her. She stated that the movie was too fictionalized to be regarded as a documentary and claimed it was "a bona fide Flahertian re-enacted documentary. And thats very pleasing in editing because it can become very boring seeing the same stuff again.. Hatidze Muratova, the subject of the award-winning documentary 'Honeyland.' Neon A woman walks down a dusty, sunbaked road. Nominated for Oscars for both best documentary feature and best foreign film, it is a visual masterpiece, introducing its viewers to an incredible, particular life . Log in to Reply. Honeyland contains elements of several documentary styles, including fly on the wall, direct cinema, and cinma vrit. 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. 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. Mr. Georgiev and Ms. Muratova visiting her new house in Dorfulija, which is still under construction. She takes only half of the honey, leaving the rest for the bees. Read full review. 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. 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. We have no option but to cope with it somehow," said Georgiev, who also edited the film. 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. But Kotevska's main impression of Los Angeles is: "From the tall buildings, I cannot see the stars.". Will They Ever Leave? She has become a star. Audience ratings certified by ACPM/OJD. In fact, the social worker felt he had made himself too available. (Credit: Ljubo Stefanov/Trice Films) Serenading them with a secret chant, she gently manoeuvres the honeycomb without netting or gloves. Hatidze Muratova, the star of the two Oscar nominated documentary movie Honeyland, is preparing for her trip to Hollywood. Neon. It's a poem including history"[19] and listed the film as best pick for 2019. 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. He elaborated, "a sensitivity to both petty human concerns and striking natural beauty is what makes Honeyland a particularly enthralling documentary. Its distributor Neon gave it a theatrical release in the United States, opening on 26 July 2019. There . Its impossible! sighed Mr. Georgiev. 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. Watch out at the Oscars on Sunday for Hatidze Muratova. She herself lives in what amounts to a hole in the rock, a cave-like hut where she tends her ancient mother as gently and patiently as she tends her bees. As the nomadic family decides to move to another village, Hatide remains alone in Bekirlija. Self: Honeyland. Gently placing it into Nazife's hands, the old woman's ruined face (one eye has been destroyed by a wound or infection . Hatidze Muratova, the protagonist of "Honeyland. "Not understanding Turkish was a problem during the shooting, but we decided to let them speak as they naturally would," says Kotevska. This led them to Hatidze Muratova, one of Europe's last wild beekeepers, who uses ancient methods passed down through the generations for harvesting wild honey. 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 . 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. The IDA Documentary Screening Series brings some of the years most acclaimed documentary films to the IDA community and members of industry guilds and organizations. In an interview with Anadolu Agency, Muratova told her story that begins in a poor rural village in North Macedonia, leading in Oscar nominees. 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. Hatidze spent her time caring for both her bees and her mother, and with no spouse or children of her own, took some of the neighbor kids under her wing. "Marriage . [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. All pictures from Honeyland (directors: Tamara Kotevska and Ljubo Stefanov) are NEON copyright, unless otherwise stated, From World of Warcraft to conducting the Oscars, Ukrainian ministers killed in helicopter crash, Zelensky addresses world leaders after deadly helicopter crash, 15 minutes to defend yourself against death penalty. [64] Jake Coyle writing for the Associated Press deemed the documentary a "quietly revolutionary Oscar nominee" and said it "speaks to the increasingly boundless nature of [the] documentary [genre]". 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. 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 . 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. The honey she sells at the market in the capital of North Macedonia, Skopje, is her sole source of income. Our fearless leader, Hatidze, climbs higher and higher until she stops at an unremarkable collection of rocks. Even if Im in a film, she said, Im still going to take care of my bees.. She is one of the last keepers of wild bees in Europe. It really says something important about the world," he added. 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. This is the first of many surprises in Honeyland (2019), a documentary set in a rugged, barely inhabited region of Macedonia where an extraordinary woman named Hatidze maintains ancient traditions of wild beekeeping. 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. [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. Although initially reluctant to participate in the documentary, Hatide agreed to get involved to send a message of sustainable living to the world. Read about our approach to external linking. Sign up for our Email Newsletters here. [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". Culture 06.02.2020 / 14:39. Hatidze Muratova, the protagonist of "Honeyland. Hatidze Muratova is a Macedonian beekeeper of Turkish ethnicity: Outside, she sings to the bees that she tends with an expert, traditional hand. [55], Honeyland received its first monetary award prize of 30,000 from the Turkish Radio and Television Corporation at the 2019 Sarajevo Film Festival in late August 2019. Some documentary crews maintain a professional distance even after filming stops. A woman walks alone through the untamed mountains and hills of Macedonia. France 24 - International breaking news, top stories and headlines. Hatidze makes a living using ancient beekeeping traditions. Life was hard but peaceful in this forgotten corner of the Balkans. This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Hatidze Muratova. Hatidze, star of the Oscar nominated Honeyland movie, gets a new house. 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. 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. "People love her. 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 . "The mother and daughter story is so beautiful and almost mythological, but with the honey, there is conflict, capitalism and consumerism. 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