Honey

About the movie

Yusuf’s father works as a beekeeper in the depths of a frightening forest. The forest is a place of mystery for Yusuf. One morning Yusuf describes the dream he had seen that night to his father. This dream is to be an ever-lasting secret between the two. When his father disappears, Yusuf slips into silence. Yusuf’s mother sends Yusuf to spend the sacred Mirac Night (the night of the Ascension of the Prophet) with his grandmother. The next day Yusuf goes deep into the forest to search for his father. Will the dream he has seen come true?
Semih Kaplanoglu is one of the most celebrated Turkish directors. Besides winning the Golden Bear at the Berlin Film Festival 2010 he was inter alia nominated for The Golden Lion at the 2008 Venice Film Festival for the film “Milk”. “Honey”, “Milk” and a third movie, “Egg”, are all part of his Yusuf Trilogy, a series of films that is about Yusuf’s life. Played backwards the trilogy starts with him being grown up and ending with him as a young boy.

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