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Film: Dirty laundry, clean hands

Winternachten 2 -
Frank Zichem - foto Frank Zichem
Frank Zichem - foto Frank Zichem


The Surinamese documentary maker Frank Zichem has never been afraid to expose controversial themes or wash the dirty linen in public. He has made an impressive number of documentaries, about the economic situation in the completely bankrupt Surinam (Maandi, 1994), on the slavery past in Surinam and Ghana (Katibo Ye Ye, 2003), about trade union leader Louis Doedel (1998) who in 1937 was put in a psychiatric asylum by the colonial government, and on Anton de Kom (We slaves of Surinam, 1999). Tonight Winternachten shows a selection from Zichem's work and journalist Bert Jansma talks to the maker about the dilemma of Dirty laundry, clean hands. Following this there is a programme in de kleine zaal on the same dilemma with Sandew Hira, Junot Diaz and Kettly Mars. In Dutch