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Tussen wal en schip – Geruisloos Indisch

75 years ago, many Dutch East Indians arrived in the Netherlands after repatriation, for most an episode that is kept silent. Three grandchildren want to break that silence.

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Deze voorstelling maakt deel uit van Rialto Filmclub met als gastspreker deze maand Ernst-Jan Pfauth.

After the screening there will be a Q&A with  filmmaker Juliette Dominicus. This talk will be in Dutch, just like the screening.

Tussen wal en schip – Geruisloos Indisch

Jip, Kyron and Benjamin, three youngsters with Dutch-Indonesian roots, take their grandparents to the place where they took their first step on Dutch soil 75 years earlier after repatriation: Rotterdam's Lloykade. They want to hear the stories about what happened to them back then; they want to know how the colonial past affected their lives. These are subjects the people who lived through it would rather not talk about. And just imagine how painful is it to be forced to migrate. And that is what happened to these people when Indonesia gained independence in 1949.

With patience and love, the three grandchildren engage in conversation with their grandparents, and no matter how difficult, the silence is broken. They talk about the crossing, about arriving here and how they were not always warmly welcomed here, and about how integration here eventually went. Their stories are brought to life with shadow play and projections on the quay wall.