Women of Suriname (1978)

Het Onbekende Suriname

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.

• Release Date: 1978-09-23
• Runtime: 0h 55min
• Production Country: Netherlands, Suriname
• Director: At van Praag