Luci

By Mateo Vega, Mathieu Wijdeven • 0:39:59 • Documentary, Short • history, Colonialism • Suriname • Dutch

A search for the memory and legacy of the co-director’s great-great-grandfather: the Surinamese artist and early critic of the Dutch colonial regime G.G.T. Rustwijk (1862-1914). Luci is a search for Rustwijk’s “light” and what remains of it in modern-day Suriname.

Up The River

by Leon de Levita • 20 mins • Short • Suriname • Dutch • 2024

Roy takes his grandfather Benjamin up the river to visit his lost brother Hugo. Although Roy is aware that Grandpa’s memory is beginning to fail him, he only realizes how advanced the dementia has become when they’re in the boat, and that this isn’t just a simple upstream boat ride.