🎬 Dolle Mina then and now: Women of Suriname (1978) + A Battle Restored (2022) + Q&A
Fifty years ago, the Dolle Mina's made a name for themselves with their playful campaigns for women's rights. Filmhuis Cavia is now joining forces with Podium Nassau for a series of events exploring different aspects of the heritage of the most famous Dutch feminist collective!
For this first instalment we want to center the decolonial feminist discourses, that organizations such as LOSON (National Organisation of Surinamese in the Netherlands) helped to bring into the limelight in the tumultuous years of the Surinamese run towards independence by showing a double bill of Women of Suriname (1978) and A Battle Restored (2022). The programme will be followed by a Q&A with Surinamese activist and filmmaker Nadia Tilon.
A BATTLE RESTORED
Kiki Ho | 2022 | NL | 16’ | EN subtitles
Borne out of the restoration process of the forgotten Surinamese documentary Women of Suriname (Oema foe Sranan), this film provides historical context and personal insights into the stories of activism and struggle that enabled the production and distribution of this militant documentary.
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WOMEN OF SURINAME / OEMA FOE SRANAN
Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms, LOSON | 1978 | NL, Suriname | 56’ | EN subtitles
Women of Suriname portrays the lives of four women who relate the history of Dutch (neo)colonialism in Surinam and racism and being disenfranchised in the Netherlands using personal stories. A wonderful portrait of the Zeitgeist of the tumultuous run up to independence and the period shortly after the Srefidensi in Surinam. New restoration.
Oema foe Sranan was produced by Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms in cooperation with LOSON (National Organisation of Surinamese in the Netherlands) in the framework of political struggle, as a sign of solidarity between Surinamese and Dutch people who transfer a collective message about the socio-political situation in Surinam and the Surinamese community in the 1970s. The film centres on hoping for better days and liberation from foreign influence.
Bio Nadia Tilon
During her student days, Nadia Tilon (Paramaribo, 1953) became involved in the National Organization of Surinamese Organizations in the Netherlands (LOSON) and with its successor, the Surinamese Workers and Workers Organization (SAWO). The LOSON and the SAWO were involved in the struggle against neo-colonialism in Suriname; for equal rights of the Surinamese diaspora and other marginalized groups in the Netherlands, as well as international solidarity with socialist movements worldwide. Nadia Tilon was part of LOSON’s theater department and acted and sang in various activist shows and music groups during demonstrations and meetings. In 1978 she worked on Oema foe Sranan (Women of Suriname), an anti-colonial film with a socialist slant, made by Cineclub Vrijheidsfilms in collaboration with LOSON and with support of the former Democratic Peoples Front in Suriname.
