Honey at the Top

An intimate, quietly enraging portrait of a community under siege, watching it feels like bearing witness to a slow, unjust unraveling.

Directed by

Dean Puckett

Genres

Documentary

Overview

Honey at the Top is a film about the Sengwer forest people of the Cherangani Hills, Kenya, being evicted from their ancestral land in the name of conservation. The film centres around father of two Elias as he works with his community to try and hold onto their culture and resist the evictions. It is an intimate portrait of this community at a crossroads, facing international pressure from organisations like the World Bank, a corrupt Kenya Forest Service who are burning their houses and attempts to turn the forest into a commodity through carbon offsetting schemes.

How it feels

Earnest, melancholic, tense and dark. Measured and needs your attention.

About

Justice, identity, power, corruption

Content

Mild violence and language. No gore or sexual content.

Note

Written by AI, so it can be wrong. Full breakdown

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