Sometimes family grief refuses to sit quietly on the sidelines during life's most important moments. In writer and director Lilian T. Mehrel's deeply personal feature debut **HONEYJOON**, a mother and daughter journey to São Miguel Island in Portugal's Azores to commemorate the first anniversary of the death of the husband and father whose love once served as the emotional glue binding their fractured family together. For June (Ayden Mayeri) and her British-born Persian mother Lela (Amira Casar), returning to a place cherished by the man they both lost becomes far more than an act of rememb…
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