Heiko 03:19 (Original: 13:00) Sp-8mm / Sp-16mm, colour, 2008. PT. English subtitles
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SYNOPSIS
A 70 year old aesthete is in a relationship with a young man named Heiko. It is a fetishist relationship taken to extreme exoticism.
Cast JOSÉ MANUEL MENDES, JAIME FREITAS. Writer, director, art director, editor DAVID BONNEVILLE; Cinematography CLÁUDIA VAREJÃO; 1st AD PERSEUS MANDILLO; Sound GONÇALO PORTUGUÊS; Set construction and special effects PILAR REYNOLDS; Costume designer MIGUEL BONNEVILLE; Make-up and hairstylist EVA SILVA GRAÇA; Still photography MAFALDA CAPELA; OST BLACKBAMBI. Production Management EMÍLIA ROSA; Guidance DFFB BERLIN FILM ACADEMY
Produced + Financed by:
CALOUSTE GULBENKIAN FOUNDATION
AWARDS and MENTIONS
SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL [Park City, Utah/USA, 2008]
Special 10th Anniversary Mention
MIX:COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [Denmark, 2009]
Best Short Film Award
10th IRIS PRIZE COUNTDOWN [Wales/UK, 2016]
Best Iris Short 2009
OFFICIAL SELECTIONS and SCREENINGS
2008
SLAMDANCE FILM FESTIVAL [Park City, Utah/USA, 2008]
BERLIN International Film Festival, Berlinale Talents [Germany, 2008]
TURIN International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [Italy, 2008]
INDIELISBOA - LISBON International Film Festival [Portugal, 2008]
CLUJ TRANSYLVANIA International Film Festival [TIFF/Romania, 2008]
TORONTO Insideout International Film Festival [Canada, 2008]
NEW YORK ROCHESTER Imageout Film Festival [USA, 2008]
AMSTERDAM Roze Film Festival [Netherlands, 2008]
DUBLIN\'s Gaze Film Festival [Ireland, 2008]
FILMUL de PIATRA [Romania, 2008]
EXTREMADURA FANCINEGAY Festival Internacional de Cine [Spain, 2008]
BRUSSELS Pink Screens [Belgium, 2008]
QUEERLISBON International Film Festival [Portugal, 2008]
CAPE VERDE - Screened at the 150th anniversary celebration festival of Praia, Santiago Island [Cape Verde, 2008]
UNIVERSIDADE POMPEU FABRA [Espanha, 2008] 'New Expressions in Portuguese Film' (MA in Communication and Art Direction)
BFI LONDON Lesbian & Gay Film Festival, The Long and the Short of It [UK, 2008]
2009
RUSHES SOHO Shorts Film Festival [London/UK, 2009]
KOTA 2023 · Festival of Short Minimalist Films [Macedonia, 2009]
CHERIES-CHERIS PARIS Film Festival [France, 2009]
VALENCIA\'s Festival de la Luna [Spain, 2009]
BARCELONA International Gay & Lesbian Film Festival [Spain, 2009]
[com o apoio do Instituto Camões, Portugal]
HONG KONG Indpanda International Film Festival [China, 2009]
MONTEVIDEO\'s Llamale H Festival de Cine [Uruguay, 2009]
MIX:COPENHAGEN INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [Denmark, 2009]
MIX-BRAZIL Film Festival [São Paulo, 2009]
PHILADELPHIA GL International Film Festival [USA, 2009]
CARDIFF\'s Iris Prize Festival [Wales, 2009]
ST. PETERSBURG BEGINNING Festival of Debut and Student Films [Russia, 2009]
SEATTLE Lesbian and Gay Film Festival [USA, 2009]
HANOVER Perlen-Filmfest [Germany, 2009]
THAI Short Film & Video Festival [Bangkok/Thailand, 2009]
BUENOS AIRES International Film Festival Galloverde [Argentina, 2009]
EL LUGAR SIN LIMITES Festival de Cine [Ecuador, 2009]
CHILE Festival de Cine 2.0 [Chile, 2009]
MIX MILANO Film Festival [Italy, 2009]
CZECH Film Festival Mezipatra [Czech Republic, 2009]
TLVFEST Tel Aviv Film Festival, [Israel, 2009]
IMAGO Festival Internacional de Cinema Jovem [Fundão/Portugal, 2009]
HUMANITY EXPLORED Film Festival [USA, Australia, 2009]
JAKARTA\'s Q! International Film Festival [Indonesia, 2009]
GRAN CANÁRIA Festival del Sol [Spain, 2009]
TENERIFE Festival del Sol [Spain, 2009]
IBIZA Festival del Mar [Spain, 2009]
MALLORCA Festival del Mar [Spain, 2009]
GULBENKIAN Foundation\'s Film Retrospective - ACERT [Tondela, 2009]
MOSTRA 08 - Bragança Politecnic Institute / Mirandela Town Council - invited film and director [Portugal, 2009]
COLOMBIAN tour Ciclo Rosa - Bogotá, Medellín, Barranquilha and Cali [Columbia, 2009]
EARLY MELONS International Student Film Festival [Slovakia, 2009]
2010
AUSTIN POLARI International Film festival [Texas/USA, 2010]
12º SELFF · SEOUL INTERNATIONAL FILM FESTIVAL [Seoul Art Cinema, South Korea]
David Bonneville Retrospetive
THESSALONIKI International Cultural Panorama Film Festival [Greece, 2010]
MELBOURNE Queer Film Festival [Australia, 2010]
EAST END FILM FESTIVAL [London/UK, 2010]
BUDAPEST International Short Film Festival [Hungary, 2010]
BILBAO International Film Festival Zinegoak [Spain, 2010]
VALLADOLID Festival de Cine Cinhomo [Spain, 2010]
HELSINKI Vinokino Film Festival [Finland, 2010]
MONTPELLIER Festival Amadis du Film [France, 2010]
ATHENS Outview Film Festival [Greece, 2010]
BRISBANE Queer Film Festival [Australia, 2010]
FILMOVY Festival Inakosti [Slovakia, 2010]
MUMBAI KASHISH International Film Festival [India, 2010]
A MILLION DIFFERENT LOVES Film Festival [Lodz,Krakow/Poland, 2010]
HOLEBIKORT Filmfestival [Belgium, 2010]
SPEECH MOTION Film and Poetry Festival [London/UK, 2010]
KINOFILM MANCHESTER International Short Film Festival [UK, 2010]
2011-2020
QUESTEUROPE International Authors Film Festival [Poland, 2011]
-David Bonneville Retrospective
BELGRADE Merlinka International Film Festival [Serbia, 2011]
ZOOM ZBLIZENIA International Film Festival [Poland, 2012]
FRINGE Film Festival [United Kingdom, 2012]
A PORTUGUESE LOVE AFFAIR [London/England, 2014]
David Bonneville Retrospective
SELAR CINEMA [London/UK, 2016]
David Bonneville Showcase
FILM VAULT PRESENTS [Manchester/UK, 2017]
TERROR MOLINS - MOLINS de REI HORROR FILM FESTIVAL, [Barcelona/Spain, 2019]
UNIVERSIDADE CATÓLICA PORTUGUESA [Porto, 2020]
Masterclass Arte, Ciência e Tecnologia
ESMAD - Escola de Media Artes e Design [Porto, 2020]
Artist Talk - Postgraduate students
2023
LEIRIA INTERNATIONAL FILM FEST
David Bonneville Complete Retrospective
2024
L.A.B. London
David Bonneville 20th Career Anniversary
THEATRICAL SCREENINGS
DANISH CINEMATHEQUE / KULTUROPA - Portuguese Film Week in Copenhagen [Denmark, 2008]
MONTEVIDEO CINEMATHEQUE selection for the Gulbenkian Foundation Film week [Uruguay, 2008]
ESTÚDIO FONTENOVA, Festa do Teatro; Câmara Municipal de Setúbal [Portugal, 2008]
KINOGRUPPE ROLLENWESCHEL CINEMA [Oldenberg/Germany, 2009]
CINECLUBE do PORTO - CLUBE PORTUGUÊS de CINEMATOGRAFIA [Portugal, 2010]
NIMAS CINEMA - programa Pop Up City / Câmara Municipal de Lisboa [Portugal, 2010]
CINECLUBE ELECTRA [Rio de Janeiro/Brazil, 2010]
CINE-EAST programme [London/UK, 2012]
BROADCAST ON TELEVISION:
AXN MOVIES
Portugal
TVCINE - David Bonneville Retrospective
Portugal
OUTTV NETWORK - Canada, The Netherlands, Sweden, Baltic States, Germany
Luxembourg, Poland and Belgium
RTP2 Public TV Boadcaster - Cinemax Curtas programme
Portugal
REDE GLOBO - Futura Channel
Brazil
ZON/CABOVISÃO - MVM Channel
Portugal
MEO TV - Q Channel - selection by Zero em Comportamento / Produções Fictícias
Portugal
COMMERCIAL DISTRIBUTION (DVD/VOD)
PECCADILLO PICTURES [United Kingdom, Ireland, Malta and Gibraltar]
www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASIN/B0038AL7JW/rainbownetwork
INDIEFLIX [Worldwide excluding UK]
DVD USA
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Still Images
© photos by Mafalda Capela and movie captures, 2007
CRITICS & RATINGS
Heiko is a pleasure for the eye as well as for the gay heart that doesn’t need to establish identity yet another time. The story arrives to the screen in the midst of a relationship with an elegant series of footage and a strong grasp of composition, which immediately makes it stand out. It is not compromising itself by explaining background or fetish, but simply expecting the audience to tag along.
The story is about a very specific fetish and while it maneuvers very easily around the traps of patronizing either audience, characters or both, it is at the same time not afraid of the laughter that arrives when one recognizes a cliché.
This balance act seems to be done effortlessly.
ROSA LUX, President of the Jury at the MIX:CPH Film Festival (DK)
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"An extreme take of fetishistic obsession in a relationship between partners. While shot in a warm bright composition, the film has a foreboding darkness as soon as the title card started. Cautionary tale of power play, obedience, and disrespect with an even grimmer twist."
KaramelKinema (Indonesia)
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With a summary line that reads "a carefree young man really puts his foot in it with his obsessive lover," the nature of this short is all but obvious. For this is but a surreal ode to foot fetishes, one in which writer and director David Bonneville plays power game style, only to take an abrupt right turn in the closing frames to deliver a shocking twist to his well-executed tale.
Thankfully Jaime Freitas as Heiko, namely the techno loving young man of the piece and José Manuel Mendes as his sugar-daddy styled lover Homem play it for all it’s worth, a master / slave relationship that mirrors their on / off cinematic bond, one that is taken to the extreme in this decidedly dark tale of fetish disrespect. Enough said.
DAVID HALL, GayCelluloid.com (USA)
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If you’re a fan of the straightforward, after Steam you might be hoping for something a little more obvious, but if anything Heiko takes things in an even stranger direction. In this Portuguese short, a young man (who’s pretty sexy and spends much of the film wearing little more than shorts) returns from the beach, where an older man is waiting for him. The old man seems unimpressed, but what initially appears to be a fairly simple film about a sugar daddy relationship takes a left turn when we cut to the young man writhing on the floor wrapped head to toe in ropes – and it only gets stranger and more disturbing after that. With some interesting ideas about power dynamics and that a younger and older man may well both be using one another in a relationship, Heiko is weird but intriguing, while the ending is a bit freaky.
7 out of 10
TIM ISAAC, BigGayPictureShow.com (UK)
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Shot like a stylish feature, with extremely clever camera work and strongly believable acting, the film is blackly funny and thoroughly unsettling, partly because of the lack of background music and partly because the story gets bleak and creepy as it implies that things are going to just get worse and worse before the end.
RICH CLINE, Shadows On The Wall (UK)
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"Heiko does what it does well (...) it’s something I could see being adapted into a series"
TIMOTHY BREACH, Constrained Film Reviews (UK)
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"illuminato regista portoghese"
Franco Mutti (IT)
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"De belles images (...) le film est bien cadré et soigneusement éclairé."
Les Diagonales du Temps (FR)
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IMDb
www.imdb.com/title/tt1199471/
Berlinale Talents
www.berlinale-talents.de/bt/project/profile/27759
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