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Narco-Saints
수리남
An ordinary entrepreneur joins a secret government mission to capture a Korean drug lord operating in South America.

Hoe Duur Was De Suiker

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The Price of Sugar
Hoe Duur Was de Suiker
A story about two half-sisters life in the eighteenth century Suriname. There is Lynda, a white colonial and slave owner, and her slave Mini-Mini's. While Lynda is slowly embittered by the hard life in the colony, Mini-Mini gets a chance at her own happiness. The question is, if she dares to seize that chance, as this happiness is at the expense of her mistress and half sister?

Home Is Where Your Heart Is
Tuintje in mijn hart
Axel is Dutch Surinamese, but after 20 years of living in the Netherlands he has become 100% Dutch. He has married a Dutch girl, Victoria, and has never been back. When his free-spirited mother Gladys summons the family to her guesthouse in Surinam for Christmas and an important announcement, Axel, his wife and her sister Mirna reluctantly make the journey. They have barely arrived when the situation gets completely out of hand, with his brother Virgil winding him up and his daughter Wonnie, who is doing an internship in Paramaribo, admitting that she is pregnant...

De Jacht op de Jaguar
Humberto Tan discovers both the beauty of the Surinamese jungle and its dark side: the illegal wildlife trade. A connection that he symbolizes with a search for the king of the forest: the jaguar. The survival of this animal is at risk because of this trade. Will Humberto manage to track down not only the jaguar, but also the hunters?

Nazaten
Frans Bromet goes in search of his family history and discovers that Hermanus Bromet was a well-known slave trader in Suriname. Should he feel guilty for what his ancestor did? How do you deal with a burdened family past?

De let'en! - Da it'en!
A meditative depiction of a colonial villa in Mungo, Surinam, taken back by nature.

Megalopolis I
First film by Pim de la Parra, about a young Surinamese man in Amsterdam who delivers a “monologue interior” about his dissatisfaction with society and his position as an outsider.
Surinamese in The Netherlands: The Return of the Black Gold
Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud
In Surinamers in Nederland: De terugkeer van het zwarte goud, we see Surinamese people arriving in the Netherlands, unsure of what to expect, and being packed into overcrowded boarding houses. The government's idea is that they should then be integrated into society as quickly as possible. This was to be done by the Centraal Bureau Uitvoering Vestigingsbesluit Rijksgenoten, set up in 1974.