Directors Ljubo Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska show the same infinite patience and care in telling the story of their subject, a Macedonian beekeeper named Hatidze, that Hatidze shows in caring for her bees.

| Oct 21, 2021

This movie about Europe's last wild beekeeper is complex, resonant, and visually magnificent.

| Mar 20, 2020

As fly-on-the-wall documentaries go, Honeyland is a particularly fine example. There is no narration: the rather sad, but enveloping, story is told in purely visual terms, and the photography is outstanding.

| Mar 6, 2020

Hatidze's story is heartbreakingly moving, and needs no heavy editorialising. Her strength, dignity, resilience and humanity carry the film's truth and weight.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Mar 4, 2020

Terribly sweet. Terribly sad.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Feb 13, 2020

This is one of the best movies of the year... Over and over again while I was watching it, I was asking myself "How did they get that shot?"

| Oct 2, 2019

[A] gripping, Sundance-winning documentary.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 15, 2019

Brief and to the point, Honeyland proves more meditative than its premise suggests.

| Original Score: 3/5 | Sep 13, 2019

Although it starts as a meditation on the hardship and rhythms of rural life, Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska's documentary becomes something more intimate.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 13, 2019

Fancy a northern Macedonian film about beekeeping? "You will, Oscar, you will," I am tempted to say.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2019

Stunningly 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.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2019

Honeyland really is a miraculous feat, shot over three years as if by invisible camera - not a single furtive glance is directed towards the film-makers.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 11, 2019

A delicate allegory about the impact of modern agriculture.

| Original Score: 4/5 | Sep 10, 2019

Grave and wise, "Honeyland" is ultimately an act of faith, and the filmmakers extend the idea of balance all the way to the film's implicit moral.

| Original Score: 4/4 | Sep 5, 2019

Both laconic and poignant, Honeyland alternates between stark and austere landscapes with detours into an intimate look at two families who are struggling to literally live their lives.

| Original Score: 3.5/5 | Aug 29, 2019

This elegant film... begins as the intimate portrait of a beekeeper who makes famously good honey, and then expands to become something of a parable.

| Aug 12, 2019

As an intervention in the conversation around climate change and natural disaster, Honeyland performs the unique feat of uniting agriculture with human culture, to prove that it is really all just culture.

| Aug 9, 2019

Honeyland is as much about the gooey sticky nectar as it is a story of perseverance.

| Original Score: 3.5/4 | Aug 9, 2019

"Honeyland" sneaks up on you in a quiet yet powerful way.

| Original Score: 3/4 | Aug 6, 2019

Its narrative construction depicts extraordinary tensions and conflicts with a clarity and coherence that a screenwriter might dream of. At the same time, the film's dramatic power comes at the expense of the reportorial side of documentary filmmaking.

| Aug 2, 2019