Tasting Contrasts
Dutch Caribbean | doc | 2025 | 15 min. Film unites many forms of art on the screen. For CIFF ’25 it was decided to focus, among other forms, on the visual arts. Renowned painter Rembrandt, like many other masters, depicted the five senses. However, one of these works, the image of taste, has never […]
Caribbean Eyewitness Accounts of WWII
Dutch Caribbean | doc | 30 min | Papiamentu, Dutch| n.s. This year, we celebrate 80 years of freedom within the Kingdom since the end of World War II by screening four eyewitness accounts. In 2017, the Cultuur Kameleon Foundation, in collaboration with the National Committee for May 4 and 5, published The Caribbean Think […]
Mosaiko Kultural
Screenplay and artistic direction: Felix de Rooy, based on Cultural Mosaic of the Netherlands Antilles (1977), edited by René Römer. Recitations: Stanley Cras and Lucille Haseth. Lost and Found in the archives of Sound & Vision.
Lanta para watapana
A program about Wilbert Tecla (1938-1987) was a long-standing wish of the CIFF. But where were his films? They were eventually found in the archives of Sound & Vision, the institute that also manages the Sticusa archive.
Ernest Cole: Lost and Found
Photographer Ernest Cole, born in 1940 in South Africa, took his camera to the streets in the late 1950s to document the injustices of life under Apartheid. He was inspired to become a photographer after seeing a book of Henri Cartier-Bresson’s images of Moscow. Later, in exile in New York, Cole’s anger became visible in his photographs of America during the 1970s and 1980s. His images of Black people in New York City and the South reflect suffering, resilience, exhaustion, and joy.