Stones Have Laws
MovieTitle | Dee sitonu a weti |
User score | 0 |
Release date | Oct 10, 2019 |
Genre | Documentary |
Director | Lonnie van Brummelen , Siebren de Haan , Tolin Erwin Alexander |
Production country | Netherlands, Suriname |
Production companies | Ideal Film, seriousFilm, VRIZA |
Run time | 100 min. |
An immersive initiation into the life of a Maroon community in the former Dutch colony of Suriname. Combining stories of African ancestral traditions and escaped slavery with enacted contemporary rituals, the film explores how the community’s powerful ties to the land have become endangered as industries threaten to devastate the region through deforestation and mining.