Jackpot! actor Ayden Mayeri and Amira Casar (Call Me By Your Name) go on a mother-daughter grief vacation within the romantic Azores within the trailer for author and director Lilian T. Mehrel’s darkish comedy Honeyjoon, which dropped on Thursday.
The indie pic, which earned the Untold Tales prize on the Tribeca Competition, follows Kurdish-Persian mom Lela (Casar) and her American daughter June (Mayeri) as they journey to the Azores to mark the one 12 months anniversary of a significant loss, solely to be at odds over grieve and June’s bikini line.
Ultimately, the mom and daughter hyperlink up with an attractive, but philosophical surfer and native tour information João, performed by Portuguese star José Condessa, who advises them at one level within the trailer: “When a big wave hits you, and you fall, and the world beats you up, it takes time to go back in the water.”
Lela and June do return to the Azores waters and emerge with a will to search out each other and to embrace life as soon as once more by the top of the trailer.
The discharge from Utopia’s Circle Collective will open in New York on the IFC Heart on June 10, adopted by a Laemmle Royal run in Los Angeles from June 12, the Laemmle City Heart on June 19 and Laemmle Glendale on June 26, earlier than a play in Chicago on the Gene Siskel Movie Heart.
Mehrel gained Tribeca’s AT&T Untold Tales pitch competitors in 2024, which included $1 million to make her darkish comedy in time for Honeyjoon to have a world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival. In her director’s assertion, Mehrel added: “I make films to be an orchestra conductor of emotion. I love to fine-tune the fine-line of dark humor. I love surprising audiences with waves of laughter and feeling, taking you on a ride. Sharing the inside joke of being human. Honeyjoon is for anyone who lives with loss. For anyone who wants to feel free in their body. For anyone who has tried, and failed, to flirt.”
The U.S.-Portugal co-production is produced by Mehrel and Andreia Nunes with Marvel Maria. Rostam Zafari, Sepanta Mohseni and Azadeh Vatanpour are government producers.
