HONEY

HONEY, 2010

Turkey | 35mm, Color, 100’ |Turkish

Director:Semih Kaplanoğlu

Cast:Bora Altaş, Erdal Beşikçioğlu, Tülin Özen

The final installment of Semih Kaplanoğlu’s Yusuf trilogy, Honey had its premiere at the 2010 Berlin International Film Festival where it won the Golden Bear. Returning to Yusuf’s childhood, the film follows Yusuf as an introverted child of primary school age whose father goes to the forest in search of Caucasus honey. When his father, the only person the child communicates with, does not return from the woods, he becomes even more reticent. Like his mother, he too wanders into the depths of the forest to look for his father.