Biography
Heddy Honigmann, a child of Holocaust survivors, was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru, where she studied biology and literature at the University of Lima. She left Peru in 1973, traveled throughout Mexico, Israel, Spain and France, and later studied film at the Centro Sperimentale di Cinematografia in Rome. Since 1978 she has been a Dutch citizen and than lived in Amsterdam, although her filmmaking career has taken her around the world.
As the child of exiles, it's not surprising that the plight of exiles and outsiders is a recurrent theme in her documentaries, as is memory, music and love. Her subjects have included cab drivers in Peru, immigrant musicians on the Paris Metro, senior citizens in Brazil, and Cuban exiles in New Jersey. In addition to the elegantly composed imagery of her films, Honigmann's most often recognized talent as a documentary filmmaker is her ability to make an emotional connection with the people she films, an empathetic ability to listen and to elicit surprisingly intimate responses from them.
Honigmann's body of work has been honored with retrospectives at the Walker Art Center in Minneapolis, the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Cinema Arsenal in Berlin, the Madrid Film Museum, the Pacific Film Archive in San Francisco, and the Paris Film Festival, among many other venues. Her films have won major awards at film festivals around the world, including the Golden Gate Award at the San Francisco Film Festival, the Golden Pigeon at the Leipiz Film Festival, the Grand Prix at the Cinema du Réel in Paris, the Jury Prize at the Montreal World Film Festival, the Dutch Film Critics Award (twice!), and the J. Van Praag Award from The Humanist Association.
Director
Movies | |
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1998 |
De juiste maat (TV movie) |
1995 |
Goodbye |
1991 |
Verhalen die ik mezelf vertel |
1988 |
Mindshadows |
1985 |
De deur van het huis |
1983 |
De witte paraplu |
Documentaries | |
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2021 |
No Hay Camino – There Is No Path |
2020 |
100UP |
2018 |
Buddy |
2017 |
Displaced |
Joke van Leeuwen: Een wereld tussen twee oren (TV movie) |
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2014 |
Around the World in 50 Concerts |
2008 |
Oblivion |
2007 |
Emoticons (TV movie) |
2006 |
Forever |
2004 |
Food For Love - A Shtetl That's No Longer There |
Privé |
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2003 |
Give Me Your Hand |
2001 |
Good Husband, Dear Son |
1999 |
Crazy |
1998 |
2 Minutes Silence, Please |
1997 |
The Underground Orchestra |
1996 |
O Amor Natural |
1993 |
Metal and Melancholy |
1990 |
Ghatak |
Short | |
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2011 |
And Then One Day |
1999 |
Hanna lacht |
1993 |
Oog in oog - Breinaald in Aquariumvis |
1990 |
Vier maal mijn Hart |
1989 |
Your Opinion, Please |
1981 |
Het vuur |
Screenwriter
Movies | |
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1998 |
De juiste maat (TV movie) |
1995 |
Goodbye |
1991 |
Verhalen die ik mezelf vertel |
1988 |
Mindshadows |
1985 |
De deur van het huis |
1983 |
De witte paraplu |
Documentaries | |
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2021 |
No Hay Camino – There Is No Path |
2020 |
100UP |
2017 |
Joke van Leeuwen: Een wereld tussen twee oren (TV movie) |
2014 |
Around the World in 50 Concerts |
2008 |
Oblivion |
2007 |
Emoticons (TV movie) |
2006 |
Forever |
2003 |
Give Me Your Hand |
2001 |
Good Husband, Dear Son |
1999 |
Crazy |
1998 |
2 Minutes Silence, Please |
1997 |
The Underground Orchestra |
1996 |
O Amor Natural |
1993 |
Metal and Melancholy |
Short | |
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2011 |
And Then One Day |
1990 |
Vier maal mijn Hart |
1989 |
Your Opinion, Please |
1981 |
Het vuur |
Producer
Documentaries | |
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2004 |
Food For Love - A Shtetl That's No Longer There |
Short | |
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2008 |
So Beautiful |
Actress
Documentaries | |
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2008 |
Capturing Reality |
2007 |
Allemaal film (series) |
1998 |
2 Minutes Silence, Please |
Short | |
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1981 |
Het vuur |
Performer
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1991 |
Días de cine |
Editor
Movies | |
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1983 |
De witte paraplu |
1981 |
Er gaat een eindeloze stoet mensen door mij heen |
Documentaries | |
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1980 |
Change of Life |
Short | |
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1981 |
Het vuur |