Metal and Melancholy

In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy, many middle-class professionals used their own cars to moonlight as taxi drivers. This film learns how these parttime cabbies manage to navigate through Lima's streets. After describing the intimate relationships they've developed with their vehicles, the taxi drivers open up emotionally. "Life is hard, but beautiful," one of them said.

Forever

A film about the power and vitality of art, about a place where love and death lives on: the Père-Lachaise Cemetery in Paris. The calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of today's visitors. While they share their sorrow for the loss, the graveyard gradually reveals itself not only as a resting place for the dead, but also as a source of peace and inspiration for the living.

Oblivion

Lima could be any other Latin American city. Terrible things hide under its soil or in its streets full of carbon monoxide. "In Oblivion, I intended to celebrate, in a poetic manner, this forgotten city and its people. Look at the history with a sense of humor and irony and give a twist to reality, Oblivion doesn't scream, it whispers. Oblivion doesn't sob; it just cries." - Heddy HONIGMANN

Crazy

A film about the haunting experiences of Dutch U.N. peacekeepers, woven together by the powerful influence music has had on their endurance, survival, and memories of war. "Crazy reminds us that war, however short, never ends," says Tom Rankin. He declares as well, "Crazy transcends its particular subject matter to resonate universally, to capture a deeper truth both artfully and with enduring power."

The Underground Orchestra

The film is a musical journey through a world at war. A diverse group of exiled bohemians (an Argentine pianist, Romanian father and son violinists, a Venezuelan harpist, singers from Mali and Vietnam) are united by their experiences with political repression. Finding refuge in Paris, music becomes their economic lifeline, but as this film makes clear, it is also a shining metaphor for their will to survive.

O Amor Natural

"When O Amor Natural of Carlos Drummond de Andrade appeared in the wonderful Dutch translation by August Willemsen, I started to dream about a film based on the poems in the book. Thanks to the poems I was able to talk to wonderful old people about Drummond, about - their memories of - sex and love. The poems sometimes functioned as a kind of corkscrew, sometimes as a glass of brandy." - Heddy HONIGMANN

Director in Focus - Heddy Honigmann

Films

Crazy

Crazy

1999
Netherlands
97min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN

Forever

Forever

2006
Netherlands
97min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN

Metal and Melancholy

Metal and Melancholy

1993
Netherlands
80min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN

O Amor Natural

O Amor Natural

1996
Netherlands
78min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN

Oblivion

Oblivion

2008
Netherlands
93min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN

The Underground Orchestra

The Underground Orchestra

1997
Netherlands
108min
海蒂.哈妮曼
Heddy HONIGMANN
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