Monikondee
Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan
The Marowijne (Maroni) River cuts through dense rainforest, forming the shifting border between Suriname and French Guiana. Along its banks live Indigenous communities and Maroons – descendants of Africans who liberated themselves from Dutch slavery and established societies deep within the forest. Today the river carries other currents as well: gold mining, climate disruption and the slow intrusion of a cash economy into lands once largely beyond its reach.
Moving between observation and reflection, Monikondee (“Moneyland”) accompanies a journey along this waterway. Filmmakers Tolin Alexander, Lonnie van Brummelen and Siebren de Haan travel with Boogie, a Maroon boatman who delivers goods by motorized dugout canoe to villages scattered along the river. Encounters, conversations and songs along the route reveal lives caught between ancestral obligations and the pressures of extraction economies and environmental change. While communities depend on Boogie’s deliveries, the fuel he supplies to gold miners ties him uneasily to the forces reshaping their world – an uncomfortable position that echoes the difficult choices facing many along the river.
Due to illness Lonnie van Brummelen will not be present for the Q&A.
What else is on Saturday?
Check the timetable to visit more programmes with your Festival Pass (5-days) or Day Pass (1-day). With the passes you can also visit the festival exhibition Techno-Ancestrality at the IMPAKT [Centre for Media Culture] and BAK Basecamp.
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