It is an outstanding achievement for Heddy Honigmann's Oblivion to win the YIDFF Mayor's Prize. In Lima, Peru, in South America, we meet a restaurant bartender, a mother and daughter who taste frog juice in order to strengthen memory. . . . Through a truly delicate and sophisticated gesture, Heddy Honigmann hands to us what is at the core of real ordinary people's hearts, something that is unseen and in the process of generation. She is a most rare filmmaker, who projected "things that are about to be forgotten"-the dirt or dust that falls upon color film stock and delivered this to our eyes. I venture to call her a "miraculous filmmaker." Together with you all, I extend my thanks and respect to Heddy Honigmann for something newly born. Heddy Honigmann, thank you.
