The myth that I have always associated with storks is that of them delivering babies via the chimneys of Europeans. I remember vividly the first time I drove through the Romanian countryside and saw a nest on every post, and I could see how easily that myth could exist. But the folklore at the heart of The Tale of Silyan is another one altogether: One of a boy who is too lazy to help his father farm, and is cursed to the body of a Stork, anonymous among the multitude of birds that roam eastern Europe.
When I reviewed Honeyland back in 2019, I wrote, “It was a marvel of a documentary, one that feels more like a narrative slice of Shakespearean tragedy as any kind of typical 'issue'...
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