Heddy Honigmann

No Hay Camino (2021)

"There Is No Path" follows legendary director Heddy Honigmann on a real and spiritual journey. Today, facing a terminal illness, she will travel to her country of birth, Peru and through Europe revisiting all the important places and moments of her life, r ...

100UP (2021)

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 ...

Buddy (2019)

Walking in the forest without being able to see, coming down the stairs or going shopping when one is paralysed, falling asleep with post-traumatic stress disorder: for the protagonists of Buddy, all of this is made possible by the presence of an assistanc ...

I Am Joke, Said Joke (2017)

Documentary about the Dutch author, illustrator and performer Joke van Leeuwen, who has won various awards for her literature for children which sometimes uses a quest as a theme. ...

Around the World in 50 Concerts (2014)

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 wh ...

And Then One Day (2011)

A young Moroccan woman who, when faced with a sudden ban on headscarves, has to find a creative way to skirt the law. ...

Divine Pig (2010)

The pig is unclean to some, tasty or sweet to others. The pig Dorus grows up in the backyard of free-range butcher Gerard Zwetsloot. They walk around the village together and are local celebrities. After two years, Dorus is ready for slaughter and Gerard i ...

Oblivion (2008)

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 f ...

Emoticons (2007)

For a lot of young girls, the Internet is a safe haven where they can be themselves without fear. The computer is their 'daily food'. They submerge themselves in a virtual world that became more important than the ordinary one. For most of them the virtual ...

Forever (2006)

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. Oth ...

Dame la mano (2004)

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. ...

Good Husband, Dear Son (2002)

The widows of Ahatović reminisce stories about their husbands and sons who were killed in a massacre during the Yougoslav civil war in 1992. ...

Private (2000)

This film interrogates numerous people regarding their experiences as thieves. ...

2 Minuten Stilte a.u.b. (1998)

The Underground Orchestra (1998)

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 qua ...

O Amor Natural (1996)

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, ...

Tot ziens (1995)

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 hope ...

Metal and Melancholy (1994)

This documentary is an offbeat "road movie" in which acclaimed documentarian Heddy Honigmann travels with, and thereby discovers the stories of, taxi drivers in Lima. In the early 1990s, in response to Peru's inflationary economy and a government destabili ...

Mindshadows (1988)

A Dutch couple is confronted with the husband's rapid onset of senility during a snowy winter in North Eastern Canada. ...

The Front Door (1985)

Two very different friends who share an apartment in Amsterdam have reached a dead end in their lives. The arrival of a parcel looks like an opportunity for a change. ...

The White Umbrella (1983)

Two women are dissatisfied with their way of life and work. They also realize that their resistance to the frightening political and military developments in Europe has come to nothing. In seemingly different ways, they try to change their relationship wit ...

Capturing Reality (2008)

From cinema-verite; pioneers Albert Maysles and Joan Churchill to maverick movie makers like Errol Morris, Werner Herzog and Nick Broomfield, the world's best documentarians reflect upon the unique power of their genre. Capturing Reality explores the compl ...

De laatste dagen van het atelier Frans van de Staak (2002)

The importance of the Atelier as a meeting and working-place for independent or beginning filmmakers is highlighted in Last days of Studio Frans van de Staak a necrology of his films by Kees Hin (2002), which focuses mainly on Van de Staak's non-naturalist ...