Jackpot! actor Ayden Mayeri and Amira Casar (Call Me By Your Name) go on a mother-daughter grief holiday in the romantic Azores in the trailer for writer and director Lilian T. Mehrel’s dark comedy Honeyjoon, which dropped on Thursday.
The indie pic, which earned the Untold Stories prize at the Tribeca Festival, follows Kurdish-Persian mother Lela (Casar) and her American daughter June (Mayeri) as they travel to the Azores to mark the one year anniversary of a major loss, only to be at odds over how to grieve and June’s bikini line.
Eventually, the mother and daughter link up with a sexy, yet philosophical surfer and local tour guide João, played by Portuguese star José Condessa, who advises them at one point in 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 find one another and to embrace life once again by the end of the trailer.
The release from Utopia’s Circle Collective will open in New York at the IFC Center on June 10, followed by a Laemmle Royal run in Los Angeles from June 12, the Laemmle Town Center on June 19 and Laemmle Glendale on June 26, before a play in Chicago at the Gene Siskel Film Center.
