Honeyland

"Distilled from more than 400 hours of footage shot over three years, Kotevska and Stefanov have created a masterclass of tension building, a heartwrenching portrait of hard scrabble existence and a terrific allegory for our sometimes callous treatment of Mother Earth."

"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."

"This lovely, heartrending movie leaves you marveling at her history and thinking anxiously for her future - and wondering, perhaps, why her example of basic decency has become so endangered."

"Stefanov and Kotevska have done more than record the rhythms and textures of rural life. They have shaped their observations... into a luminous neorealist fable, a sad and stirring tale of struggle, persistence and change."

"…a sublime and deeply moving documentary…"

"Sometimes funny, sometimes beautiful, and often enlightening."

"In Ljubomir Stefanov and Tamara Kotevska's painstaking observational documentary, everything from the honey upwards is organic."

"An unforgettable vérité character study and an intimate look at an endangered tradition."