CINEHUNCH / YOUR NEXT CHAPTER

A FRESH ALLOWANCE AT MIDNIGHT · ISTANBUL TIME

Back to the finderTHE FILM / 2010
Honey posterA FILM WORTH A CLOSER LOOK

THE FEATURE PRESENTATION

MOVIE2010 1h 43m TUR

IF THIS ONE STAYED WITH YOU

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Honey

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Why this pick

Like Honey, it builds profound emotion through sparse dialogue, elemental sound, ritualistic daily life and a child’s perspective within a family facing an implacable rural hardship.

The Spirit of the Beehive poster 02

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The Spirit of the Beehive

Why this pick

A quiet, visually delicate child’s-eye drama where landscape, silence and imagination carry more weight than explanation, echoing Honey’s intimate attention to a young boy’s inner world.

The Wonders poster 03

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Why this pick

Its beekeeping family, tactile countryside and unhurried observation create a similarly immersive natural world, while the children absorb adult precarity through glances, work and ambient detail.

Winter's Bone poster 04

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Winter's Bone

Why this pick

This shares Honey’s austere rural setting and a child’s family destabilized by a missing parent, though its search is more plot-driven and its atmosphere more tense.

Mirror poster 05

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Why this pick

For Honey’s poetic natural imagery and emotional restraint, this offers an equally sensory, memory-like experience in which wind, rain, woods and childhood perception shape the drama.

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01 / THE STORY

A little about the film.

In the remote and undeveloped eastern Black Sea Region, a six-year-old boy (Yusuf) wanders through the woods searching for his lost father, trying to make sense of his life. His father is a beekeeper whose bees have disappeared unexpectedly, threatening his livelihood. A bizarre accident kills the father.. There is little dialogue or music in the film. The three main characters (Yusuf and his parents) are all fairly taciturn, and the soundtrack is filled out with the sounds of the forest and the creatures that live there.

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02 / FACES IN THE FRAME

The people who bring it to life.

Tülin Özen

Tülin Özen

Zehra