The visually stunning and emotionally stirring Oscar-nominated documentary Honeyland captivated viewers at the 2019 Sundance Film Festival, earning three highly coveted awards. The filmmakers spent three years documenting the life and work of Hatizde Muratova, the last in a long line of wild beekeepers. She is thrown into upheaval when an itinerant patriarch with seven children and a herd of cattle arrives and tries to turn this empty patch of territory into a literal land of milk and honey sufficient to feed his family. As the New York Time’ A.O. Scott observes, the conflict that results over scarce and fragile resources feels, “like a microcosm of the human predicament at a time of environmental catastrophe.” From this complicated and fractious terrain, the directors have shaped a “luminous neorealist fable, a sad and stirring tale of struggle, persistence and change” that speaks profoundly to our own time.

Co-presented by the Global Film Series and the Arts and Humanities Division.