The comedy film Honeyjoon, directed by Lilian T. Mehrel, focuses on a trip to a resort on the Azorean Island with June (Ayden Mayeri) and her mother, Lela (Amira Casar), a Persian expat living in England, to commemorate the one-year anniversary of her father's death. The film avoids sentimentality and acknowledges the struggles of Lela's grieving mother and mother-in-law. The second half of the film is dominated by a surfer named João, who takes them on a tour of the island and encourages them to fall for each other. Despite these struggles, the film has been praised for avoiding mawkishness and emphasizing the importance of avoiding sentimentality.