Tussen Wal en Schip (2024)

Name: Tussen Wal en Schip
Genre: Documentary
Released: 2025-07-07T14:39:14+02:00
Rating: 4.17

Documentary | 70 minutes

4,17 12 votes

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Genre: Documentary

Duration: 70 minuten

Country: Netherlands

Directed by: Sven Peetoom and Juliette Dominicus

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Tussen Wal en Schip plot

Three third-generation Indo youngsters take their grandparents back to the Lloydkade, where they arrived some 75 years ago during the repatriation from the former Dutch East Indies. While the last witnesses talk about the crossing, their story is passed on to the new generation through reconstructions, shadow play and projections on the walls of the quay. What does it mean to feel neither Indo nor Dutch? What was the integration like, but also the discrimination in the Netherlands? And what does the grandparent want to pass on to the grandchild, now that the silence has finally been broken?

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9 June 2025 at 23:27

I was really looking forward to this documentary. Beautiful wise words from people who came here from far away at the time.

What was very disappointing in this film was the generation of thirty-somethings who, from victimhood, want to rake up and emphasize the negative/evil of the Netherlands, while the old generation in its wisdom has left the past 'well' behind. Of course, it does not alter the fact that the nasty history has left deep traces, but trying to portray that story by "forcing" a young boy's grandfather to take note of his role in a period that the old man left behind long ago felt very activist. But perhaps that is precisely this time in which everything must be chewed over, reassessed and labeled.

And for the sake of completeness; this is just my opinion. The fact that many people were in tears after the performance suggests that I may have looked at it with different glasses.