
Heidi Hassan
Directing
Biography
Heidi Hassan (Cuba, 1978) graduated in Cinematography from the EICTV in San Antonio de los Baños (Cuba) in 2002, and later continued her training with a diploma from the Haute école d'art et de design in Geneva. She combines her work as a director with numerous collaborations as a director of photography.
Known For

An intimate and revealing autoethnographic documentary about uprootedness, motherhood, love of film, friendship and freedom. Two filmmakers who have been best friends since childhood, both part of the Cuban diaspora, share their intimate and emotional journey while they try to find themselves and each other in a foreign land.
In a Whisper
A group of people get together in a strange house and are confronted with the coming of a new world.
The New Order

In Madrid, a woman pursues the traces of a father she never knew.
Pedro M, 1981

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Código Marcos

An ensemble portrait of the 2011 Swiss federal elections. Following the fate of three candidates from the French-speaking part of Switzerland, the film sheds light on the richness and complexity of the political ritual.
Dans nos campagnes

Thirty female prisoners share the convicts’ ward of Tuilière Prison at Lonay. More than half of them have one or more children being raised elsewhere: with a sister, in a foster family, or – further away still – in their countries of origin. In portraying some of these women, the film sheds light on these mothers and the bond that ties them to their children.
Out of Sight

An immigrant mother writes and narrates letters to the family she left behind.
Red Earth

Fascinated tourists stroll through the GDR museum as if it were an amusement park, indifferent to the painful stories that occurred under the communist regime. Their casual attraction to vintage, their comfortable forgetfulness and their need for utopia make them complicit in the current Cuban reality.
Souvenir

In this autofiction, the director puts herself on stage. She talks about herself and the years that pass too quickly without us having time to notice. Through a meeting with a virtuoso guitarist, she reveals her love life and her intimacy. A (self)portrait imbued with poetry.