Metaal & Melancholie
Heddy Honigmann / NL, 1993 / 80 min.
For Metaal & melancholie, Heddy Honigmann returned to Lima after 20 years. A loving portrait of her home town’s taxi drivers. She elicits honest answers about their insecure financial situations and lost love. Will be screened from 16 mm.
Heddy Honigmann uses trips in dilapidated taxis driven by doctors, teachers, soldiers and civil servants to create a loving portrait of others from her home town – passionately, vivaciously – trying to survive.
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Details
Director
Heddy Honigmann
Production year
1993
Country
NL
Original title
Metaal & Melancholie
Length
80 min.
Language
Spanish
Subtitles
ENG
Format
16mm
Part of
Sweet 16
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