{"id":460519,"date":"2026-05-21T19:02:11","date_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:02:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460519\/"},"modified":"2026-05-21T19:02:11","modified_gmt":"2026-05-21T19:02:11","slug":"honeyjoon-trailer-ayden-mayeri-amira-casar-star-in-grief-holiday","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/460519\/","title":{"rendered":"Honeyjoon Trailer: Ayden Mayeri, Amira Casar Star in Grief Holiday"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tJackpot! actor Ayden Mayeri and Amira Casar (<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/call-me-by-your-name\/\" id=\"auto-tag_call-me-by-your-name_1\" data-tag=\"call-me-by-your-name\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Call Me By Your Name<\/a>) go on a mother-daughter grief holiday in the romantic Azores in the trailer for writer and director Lilian T. Mehrel\u2019s dark comedy Honeyjoon, which dropped on Thursday.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe indie pic, which earned the Untold Stories prize at the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/tribeca\/\" id=\"auto-tag_tribeca_1\" data-tag=\"tribeca\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Tribeca<\/a> 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\u2019s bikini line.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tEventually, the mother and daughter link up with a sexy, yet philosophical surfer and local tour guide Jo\u00e3o, played by Portuguese star Jos\u00e9 Condessa, who advises them at one point in the trailer: \u201cWhen a big wave hits you, and you fall, and the world beats you up, it takes time to go back in the water.\u201d<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tLela 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. <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe release from Utopia\u2019s Circle Collective will open in New York at the IFC Center on June 10, followed by a Laemmle Royal run in <a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/t\/los-angeles\/\" id=\"auto-tag_los-angeles_1\" data-tag=\"los-angeles\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Los Angeles<\/a> 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.<\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tMehrel won Tribeca\u2019s AT&amp;T Untold Stories pitch competition in 2024, which included $1 million to make her dark comedy in time for Honeyjoon\u00a0to have a<a href=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/honeyjoon-director-grief-movie-1236410811\/\" data-type=\"link\" data-id=\"https:\/\/www.hollywoodreporter.com\/movies\/movie-features\/honeyjoon-director-grief-movie-1236410811\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\"> world premiere at the 2025 Tribeca Festival.<\/a> In her director\u2019s statement, Mehrel added: \u201cI 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.\u00a0Honeyjoon 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.\u201d <\/p>\n<p class=\"paragraph larva \/\/  a-font-body-m     \">\n\tThe U.S.-Portugal co-production is produced by Mehrel and Andreia Nunes with Wonder Maria. Rostam Zafari, Sepanta Mohseni\u00a0and Azadeh Vatanpour\u00a0are executive producers. <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Jackpot! actor Ayden Mayeri and Amira Casar (Call Me By Your Name) go on a mother-daughter grief holiday&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":460520,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[27],"tags":[199499,93,61,1042,60,116,270,51387],"class_list":["post-460519","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-movies","tag-call-me-by-your-name","tag-entertainment","tag-ie","tag-international","tag-ireland","tag-los-angeles","tag-movies","tag-tribeca"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460519","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=460519"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/460519\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/460520"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=460519"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=460519"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ie\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=460519"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}