Heddy Honigmann – MRQE

Olvido, El

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann looks beyond the state violence, economic crises, and political corruption so predominant in Lima, Peru, to better acquaint viewers with the people of her troubled hometown. A celebration of a forgotten city, El Olvido presents Lima as a place where the working class endures despite oppression by the upper classes. Here, the people employed at the city’s finest restaurants and hotels return to squalid homes on the hillside when the workday is over. But while they may lack political power, their unbreakable spirit gives them the strength to greet each new day with a sense of optimism and hope.

100UP

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

100UP is a film which investigates the will to live. It portrays a colourful selection of 100+ year old people from all over the world. They have lived for over a century and witnessed great historical events, but instead of dwelling on the past, they look ahead. With the clock inevitably ticking, these centenarians cling to life, set new goals with a joie de vivre, refusing to admit the betrayal of their deteriorating bodies. Time is both their enemy and their friend. They have overcome diseases, lost partners and some of them survived their own children. Nevertheless, these active, curious and creative 100+ year olds are amazingly good at restarting every new day.

Forever (2006/II)

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Père-Lachaise – one of the world’s most famous and beautiful cemeteries – is the final resting-place of a gifted group of artists from all eras and corners of the world. Some – such as Piaf, Proust, Jim Morrison and Chopin – are worshiped to this day. Others have fallen into oblivion, or are visited occasionally by a single admirer. In Forever we see the mysterious, calming and consoling beauty of this unique cemetery through the eyes of people of flesh and blood. Many come for their ‘own’ beloved: husbands, wives, family and friends. Others Honor ‘their’ artist by leaving behind a personal message or a flower. While admirers share with us the importance of art and beauty in their lives, the graveyard gradually reveals itself as a source of inspiration for the living. Death offers little consolation except for the passing of time, the melancholia of a moss-covered tomb, and the beauty and power of a piece of music, a poem or a painting Written by Cobos

Om de wereld in 50 concerten

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

During the unique world tour of the RCO celebrating its jubilee in 2013 we meet musicians and concertgoers. The tour develops not just into a journey across the globe but also as a trip to the core of classical music, a quest for the palette of emotions which only classical music can arouse. In 2013 the Royal Concertgebouw Orchestra tours the whole world to celebrate its 125th anniversary: 50 concerts spread over 6 continents. Unbounded passion and love for music brings musicians and concert goers together. Documentary maker Heddy Honigmann lands with the orchestra in Buenos Aires, Soweto and St Petersburg and shows how the ensemble succeeds in gaining the hearts of people with a different cultural background. A journey to the kernel and the power of music which knows how to touch unexpected emotions and which helps to overcome the pain of living.

Oblivion

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Heddy Honigmann returns to her birthplace of Lima, Peru to reacquaint herself with a place and people dear to her heart. It is about a forgotten city, a forgotten history and a forgotten people. With irony as their loved weapon for survival, they have to forget as well, in order not to give way to cynicism, hatred and grief. It is about remembering the old days when life – despite class differences, corruption and violence – was still good: waiters, bartenders and shopkeepers who are fighting a losing battle and have lost everything. It is also about the children who manage to survive by mastering the art of street life and who reveal the country in it’s true colours. Just like the dogs they share the streets with, they have no good memories to forget.

Dame la mano

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Every Sunday night, a small New York restaurant turns into a piece of Cuba. The tables are set aside to give way to a dance floor, which welcomes the immense fervor of Cuban exiles through the rumba.

2 minuten stilte a.u.b.

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

Veteran documentary filmmaker Heddy Honigmann directs this look at how the citizens of the Netherlands recall and remember the terror of World War II. Shot entirely on May 4th, Dutch Memorial Day, the film includes interviews of war veterans and Jewish survivors of the Holocaust who tell of their harrowing experiences. The film also focuses on the conflicted feelings of their children and grandchildren, who have difficulty understanding the scope of their elders’ accounts, including one woman whose father was a Nazi sympathizer. The day’s ceremonies and the movie itself climax at 8 p.m. with a two-minute period of national silence. This film was screened at the 1999 Vancouver Film Festival.

Het ondergrondse orkest

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A moving documentary. The life stories told by immigrants in Paris are often saddening. The hardships they went through and their current uncertainty and difficult situation. No residence permit, fear of the gendarmerie, little money, poor housing. The quality and background of the musicians is many times amazing.

O Amor Natural

Fri, 22 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

O AMOR NATURAL is a documentary film about the erotic poetry of one of the greatest Latin American poets of the 20th century, the Brazilian Carlos Drummond de Andrade (1902-1987). The erotic poems of Carlos Drummond de Andrade, a household name in Brazil, remained unpublished during his lifetime, as he feared they would be deemed pornographic. In this celebration of his poetry and sensual vision, elderly residents of Rio read his poems and comment on their graphic, voluptuous imagery with tremendous candor and enthusiasm.

Tot ziens

Thu, 21 Aug 2025 04:00:00 +0000

A woman falls in love with a married, Belgian man. She finds out that he’s married too late… although it’s the second thing he says. The rest of the film is about the struggle of the man between his two loves, and of the woman not able to finish the hopeless and dangerous relationship. The title “tot ziens” (au revoir, a farewell greeting that implicates that one will see eachother again), is the ironic description of the film, which is about going away for good and then coming back again, because something is always stronger than your ratio.