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River Rites (2011)
Trance dance and water implosion, a line drawn between secular freak-outs and religious phenomena. Shot in a single-take at a sacred site on the Upper Suriname River, the minor secrets of an animist are revealed as time itself is undone. Rites are the new Trypps, embodiment is our eternal everything.
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5.2
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Lost in Hustle (2012)
A young Surinamese boy is recruited by an ex-con on parole to sell cocaine on behalf of a Surinamese mafioso who is trying to break his Mafia ties.
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7.8
/37/

Monikondee (2025)
Along the Maroni River between Suriname and French Guiana, Boogie, a boatman, transports fuel and supplies to remote Maroon and Indigenous communities by motorized canoe. As gold mining, floods, and corporate exploitation reshape life along the river, each stop becomes a place of exchange — of goods, stories, and songs. Against the current, Boogie carries the weight of obligations — to his clan, the river, and an unforgiving economy.
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5.3
/11/

Cry of a Cursed Plantation (2013)
Reshna, a student in the Netherlands, visits her sick father in Suriname. When her family tells her what made her father ill and that it has to do with his past on plantation Mariënburg, she sets out to investigate. She finds out more and more and through flashbacks, the 1902 uprising is shown. Poor Hindustani and Javanese farmers were put to work on the plantation but were very poorly paid, and after a new Scottish director took office for the NHM (Dutch Trading Company) who abused and intimidated the farmers' wives, a decision to strike was made in July 1902. After the society used violence that left dozens dead, rebellion broke out.
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7.9
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40
/1/

Up The River (2024)
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60
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Sranan Folktales: Arki Den Bigi Sma (2020)
Sranan Folktales explores Surinamese folklore and superstitions. In this anthology, elderly figures play a pivotal role as they impart warnings to the younger generation, advising them on what to do or avoid based on deeply ingrained beliefs. Each story depicts the consequences that befall those who disregard these warnings.
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7.3
/30/

Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan (2023)
A woman looks back on her life, through narration and song. In Mother Suriname – Mama Sranan, filmmaker Tessa Leuwsha uses a stream of fascinating colorized archival footage to illustrate the lives of Surinamese women like her grandmother, who was a washerwoman.
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6.6
/5/

You Can Read, Can't You? (2018)
A country where the former dictator is elected president, helped by young voters. Young journalist Ananta wants to know why she and her whole generation grew up without knowledge of the atrocities committed in the 1980's.
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7.0
/28/

Stones Have Laws (2019)
An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and escaped slavery with enacted contemporary rituals, the film explores how the community’s powerful ties to the land have become endangered as industries threaten to devastate the region through deforestation and mining.
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20
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Het Ontstaan van het Land Suriname (1998)
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7.3
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40
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Dear Convicted President (2022)
After its former president Dési Bouterse is convicted for murder, the people of Suriname remain bitterly divided. Opponents and supporters of the ex-president are unable to put the country's turbulent history behind them. Ananta Khemradj (32) wants to know what it takes to reunite the Surinamese people.
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5.5
/183/
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/7/
55
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Bolletjes Blues (2006)
Spike, an aspiring rapper, gets sucked into a criminal environment and ends up in jail for smuggling drugs.
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60
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Trypps #6 (Malobi) (2009)
From the Maroon village of Malobi in Suriname, South America, this single-take film offers a strikingly contemporary take on a Jean Rouch classic. It’s Halloween at the Equator, Andrei Tarkovsky for the jungle set.
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6.9
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60
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Het geheim van de Saramacca rivier (2007)
University teacher Horatio and his young wife Hortense are so wrapped up in their marital crisis, that they are unaware of the conspiracy unfolding around them.
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6.6
/54/
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60
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Wiren (2019)
When nine-year-old Wiren meets the American Dr. Young a world of opportunities opens up for the small deaf boy. Driven by his ambition to get ahead in life he leaves his life in rural Nickerie behind and winds up at the Kennedy boarding school in the capital Paramaribo. He struggles to comply to the strict, conservative Catholic methods at the school, but turns out to become the catalyst for the change that leads to the introduction of sign language. After being rejected by the university he realizes that deaf people do not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as hearing people. Witnessing the constant withhold of deaf people in Suriname leads Wiren to seek justice by suing the government to coerce them to adhere to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities. Will he succeed?
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Kanopy
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7.0
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54
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3.6
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One People (1976)
Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.
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6.9
/92/
63
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77
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Let Each One Go Where He May (2009)
The film traces the extensive journey of two unidentified brothers who venture from the outskirts of Paramaribo, Suriname, on land and through rapids, past a Maroon village on the Upper Suriname River, in a rehearsal of the voyage undertaken by their ancestors, who escaped from slavery at the hands of the Dutch 300 years prior. A path still traveled to this day, its changing topography bespeaks a diverse history of forced migration.
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5.9
/13/
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50
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Aluku liba (2009)
After years of serving in the army and drifting across the Amazon, Loeti yearns to go back to his land, to find his roots, and be amongst his people, the Aluku, the first Maroons of French Guiana and Suriname. One night, due to a crackdown on illegal gold mining, Loeti is forced to flee the site where he is working. Lost in the Amazon forest, he must use what is left of his childhood knowledge of the forest, to find his way back and combat the many deadly perils that lurk with every step. He is guided by the spirits, the animals, a compass, and his prayers. An intense reunion confronts Loeti with a changing world where old traditions and values are both challenged and influenced by the invading modern world. Loeti must deal with his past and grapple with what remains of the Aluku's ancient African customs by immersing himself in their magical world.
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8.2
/9/

Women of Suriname (1978)
Oema Foe Sranang (1978), translated in Dutch as Vrouwen van Suriname, was a film made in close collaboration with LOSON (Landelijke Organisatie Strijd Organisatie Suriname). This anti-colonial, feminist portrait of the lives of five Surinamese women came about after the recent independence of Suriname in 1975, also shedding a light on the experience of the Surinamese migrants entering the Netherlands and the Dutch hostile attitude towards this large flow of migrants.
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4.8
/63/
40
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44
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The Obsessed One (1974)
Three thugs assault a newlywed couple, raping and murdering the bride. The groom is accused of murder, but escapes from the police and hunts down the perpetrators. Filmed in Suriname.
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Help! (2025)
A man struggling with grief and guilt risks his safety to protect a mysterious woman in need from a cosmic entity that inexplicably draws her in. After his wife’s death, Dwayne is overwhelmed by grief and guilt. While driving through the countryside of Suriname, he encounters the mysterious Larissa in this graduation film. He decides to offer the woman in distress a ride, and subsequently she invites him to join her for dinner. But what starts as a pleasant evening quickly turns into a bizarre nightmare. Dwayne gets increasingly entangled in Larissa’s supernatural world.
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Tjúba Tén / The Wet Season (2008)
An experimental ethnography recorded in the jungle village of Bendekondre, Suriname at the start of 2007. Composed of community-generated performances, re-enactments and extemporaneous recordings, this film functions doubly as an examination of a rapidly changing material culture in the present and as a historical document for the future. Whether the resultant record is directed towards its subjects, its temporary residents (filmmakers), or its Western viewers is a question proposed via the combination of long takes, materialist approaches, selective subtitling, and a focus on various forms of cultural labor.
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Hidden World (2018)
He is the last in the village that knows how to communicate with the ancestor spirits to keep the harmony and prevent misfortune. Since Amoksi is getting old, it is time to transfer his ancient know how to his son Michael.
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Ai Sranang (2017)
Ai Sranang, is a short montage film with a decidedly focused examination of Surinamese history and politics, since its independence from the Netherlands in 1975. The fragmented nature of montage film here, is a deliberate allusion to the complexities of diaspora as it stands in relation to identity. The tropes of in-between-ness and travel, are indeed an extension of this metaphor, yet they recall also ideas of leadership and government, specifically with the image of the “swinger” bus completely running amuck—if we think more globally of the events that have defined the Neoliberal era, the metaphor of the reckless driver extends far beyond the Surinamese context.
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A Pasi Fu Romeo (2021)
From the local Surinamese tongue, “A Pasi Fu Romeo” can be translated into either “Romeo’s Road” or “Romeo’s Passion”. In either case, the double meaning is appropriate when describing the passionate road the film’s main subject, Romeo Koffymaga, has taken to become an emerging Maroon voice in the fight against logging transportation practices in Suriname.
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Three Women: About Slavery and Freedom (2018)
From late 16th century until 1863, the Dutch sold an estimated 600,000 African people into slavery. This documentary follows three women who are each involved in the heritage of slavery in their respective roles. When researcher Ellen-Rose Kambel discovers a photograph of a man who owned her ancestors in slavery, she decides to locate his descendants.
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Asema (2023)
During the summer at grandma’s, Deon encounters a mysterious old woman who warns about a vampire-like creature called “asema.” He and his friend Jimmy embark on a quest to find out if it is real or just a tale.
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7.5
/8/

Love Sings (2015)
A coming of age story centered around a young guy of Dutch-Surinamese decent. We follow him on his quest to find the ultimate love which eventually leads all the way to Surinam where he finds a love far greater than solely his object-of-affection.
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Homelands (2017)
Four acclaimed British urban musicians - Terri Walker, Shakka, Diztortion and Saskilla - return to their cultural roots, making new music inspired by their homelands along the way.


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