100Up - Age Is Just a Number

Director Heddy Honigmann is a citizen of the world. She was born in 1951 in Lima, Peru to Polish Jewish immigrants, and has spent most of her adult life in the Netherlands. Most of her films take us into the daily life of ordinary people around the world, stateless people with nowhere to call home; soldiers and war victims in more-or-less amusing, more-or-less tragic routines.  In 2003 the Museum of Modern Art in New York held a retrospective screening of a number of her films. Heddy Honigmann won the Outstanding Achievement Award at the 2007 Hot Docs Canadian International Documentary Festival. In November 2011, the Centre Pompidou in Paris held a retrospective showing all of her films. As each of Heddy Honigmann’s films is a glimmer of hope, full of humanity, FIPADOC is delighted to welcome her to Biarritz, and to present her documentaries to the public.