Tussen Wal en Schip – Geruisloos Indisch

While the last witnesses talk about the crossing, their story is passed on to the new generation through reconstructions, shadow play and projections on the walls of the quay. What does it mean to feel neither Indian nor Dutch? What was the integration like, but also the discrimination in the Netherlands? And what does the grandparent want to pass on to the grandchild, now that the silence has finally been broken?

Tussen Wal en Schip – Geruisloos Indisch interweaves these candid and sometimes confrontational conversations with personal memories and places them within the broader perspective of colonialism, migration and intergenerational trauma. A journey through history and a confrontation with silence, made by Sven Peetoom and Juliette Dominicus, who had success in 2022 with their film Indisch zwijgen.