Join us for a screening of Bagasi – What We Carry, followed by a conversation exploring questions of identity and belonging, and the ties that connect us to past and present forms of exclusion and inequality.
How do historical injustices continue to shape contemporary societies?
Join PRIO and the Embassy of the Netherlands for a special screening of Bagasi – What We Carry, in which filmmaker Emma Lesuis uncovers a hidden family history through a suitcase of photographs, objects and personal documents against the backdrop of Dutch colonisation of Suriname.
What begins as a family story narrated to her unborn child develops into a wider reflection on memory, colonial rule and explorations of identity and belonging. The film seminar is connected to Movies that Matter.
The film raises questions that resonate far beyond Suriname and the Netherlands, showing how the stories we inherit influence how we see ourselves and others. Following the screening, we will engage in dialogue on how historical and contemporary forms of exclusion and inequality shape individual identities as well as coexistence today. We explore how societies past and present have justified unequal treatment, and what it takes to build relationships based on dignity, recognition and mutual respect. From indigenous experiences to migrant identities, the conversation will examine what it means to carry the past into the present.
After the panel conversation there will be an on-site reception for those who wish to continue the discussion.
