Background
The rich history of this film remained long forgotten until 2019, when the University of Amsterdam took the initiative to catalog the Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms collection. The students that were involved in this film project reached out to the Cineclub Vrijheidsfilm and LOSON, which made it possible for the restoration to take place.
Collectie IISG
Screening context
By screening the film in the late 1970s and early 1980s in schools, community centres, squats and film theatres, Surinamese activists raised awareness in the Netherlands of the political situation in Suriname and the conditions in which Surinamese migrants found themselves in the Netherlands.
Poster Vrouwen van Suriname, Design Gus Blanes, Collection image- and soundmaterial Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms, BBG D11/573, International Institute of Social History, Amsterdam.
Openluchtvertoning van Oema foe Sranan op het Gerard Douplein (de Pijp) medio 1978. Collectie Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.
Cineclub lid Bep van de Bremer en vrijwilliger Ellen. Collectie Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms, BGB26/940, Internationaal Instituut voor Sociale Geschiedenis, Amsterdam.
Eye curator Simona Monizza toont de filmkopie aan filmmaker Henk Lalji in het collectiecentrum van Eye, december 2020.
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