Honey dreams of joining the school band, where her crush, Liam, plays. By chance, she finds out that her grandfather, who her mother claimed was dead, is actually alive and has been a musician all his life. As they grow closer, their relationship inspires her to bravely chase after her dreams.

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Another film in the oeuvre of the experienced Danish director, making her debut in the film industry with the feature Miracle in 2000, known to our festival audiences for Fighter: love and fight (2007), and internationally for the post-apocalyptic Netflix series The Rain (2018-2020). Arthy often reaches for children’s and young people’s themes, using a variety of genres. In Honey, she sets an example of essential moral cinema for young viewers, which is a specialty of Scandinavian cinematography, in this respect unrivaled in the world. In the director’s new film we have the best components of this phenomenon and style at the same time: an expressive heroine, relationships with peers in and out of school, intergenerational, difficult dialogue, the reversal of child-adult roles frequent in this cinema, the role of art, which is a link between the characters, clearly defined social situation of the characters. Seemingly a scheme, but Arthy has made the film with such a sure hand, with a smooth narrative, on top of that with a positive message, that the viewer has the feeling that everything ends far too quickly.

Jacek Nowakowski

• Polish and English subtitles
• age: 13+