KOEN SUIDGEEST
DOCUMENTARY
FILM & PHOTOGRAPHY
DOCUMENTARY FILM
GIRL CONNECTED
Bangladesh/Kenya/Peru/Jordan/India
2016 • 52 mins
Five teenage girls from Kenya, Peru, Bangladesh, Jordan and India swim against the tide to tackle gender discrimination in their communities. Jumping gracefully from country to country, this heartwarming film tells their inspiring stories.
SOLO
Netherlands
2016 • 52 mins
When Irma loses her husband, she decides to continue with the passion they once shared: to travel in their camper van, but this time alone. Once on the road, she discovers that her journey is a direct reflection of the process of her grief.
KARLA'S ARRIVAL
Nicaragua
2011 • 89 mins
Teenager Sujeylin lives in a park in Managua and is pregnant. Her plan to raise the baby right there turns out to be too dangerous, so she asks the father to find them a home. Beautifully told and full of hope, this award-winning documentary is an intense personal story about second generation street children.
THE ENDLESS CARAVAN
Belgium/Morocco/Spain
2004 • 54 mins
This documentary road movie follows two second-generation Moroccans from Belgium as they undertake the intense annual trip to their parents' motherland, along with more than a million fellow countrymen and women.