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Women of Suriname

  • September 1978
  • 55mins

  • Documentary
  • Directed by

    At van Praag,

    Starring

    Bram Behr,

    Sylvie Fernant,

    Sonja Boekstaaf,

    Jetty Meurzing

    ...

    Oema Foe Sranang (1978), translated in Dutch as Vrouwen van Suriname, was a film made in close collaboration with LOSON (Landelijke Organisatie Strijd Organisatie Suriname). This anti-colonial, feminist portrait of the lives of five Surinamese women came about after the recent independence of Suriname in 1975, also shedding a light on the experience of the Surinamese migrants entering the Netherlands and the Dutch hostile attitude towards this large flow of migrants.