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Ariana Debose

Every frame of Honeyland pulses with the cycles of life and glows with the film’s subject, Hatidze’s, magical vitality and optimism. This visually sumptuous, vérité glimpse into a forgotten world is an ode to two endangered and priceless treasures: human decency and the delicate balance of nature.

With honey in tow, directors Tamara Kotevska (center) and Ljubomir Stefanov (2nd from left) and the Honeyland team premiered their documentary during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. The film took home multiple World Cinema Documentary awards including the Grand Jury Prize and two Special Jury Awards for cinematography and impact for change.

Honeyland opens in select cities on Friday, July 26.

1: Film still courtesy of Honeyland; 2: © 2019 Illya Savenok/WireImage.com

Short Film Spotlight: Green

Green, an undocumented Turkish pedicab driver, unwittingly draws police attention, endangering his brother, his community, and himself.

Director/screenwriter Suzanne Andrews Correa, screenwriter/producer Mustafa Kaymak, and producer Michael Peters took home the Short Film Jury Award: U.S. Fiction during the 2019 Sundance Film Festival. 

Film still and poster courtesy of Green. Photo: Mustafa Kaymak, Aziz Capkurt, Erol Afsin, Suzanne Andrews Correa, and Michael Peters attend the premiere of Shorts Program 4. © 2019 Sundance Institute | Photo by Lauren Wester

Traumatized by the death of his wife, a Hasidic cantor (Géza Röhrig) obsesses over how her body will decay. He seeks answers from a local biology professor (Matthew Broderick) in Shawn Snyder’s To Dust, the unlikeliest of buddy comedies. Winner of Best New Narrative Director and the Narrative Audience Award at the 2018 Tribeca Film Festival Snyder’s hilarious film is also a wrenching meditation on grief and features, in Son of Saul’s Röhrig, one of the past year’s most underrated screen performances.

Check out Snyder’s gripping feature debut, nominated for Best Screenplay at this year’s Independent Spirit Awards and now streaming on Amazon Prime Video!

(Source:Amazon.com)