The School as Microcosm of Society
friday june 8 | 17.00 hrs | world premiere

Eerwraak
Yeter Akin and Seren Dalkiran, two Dutch girls from Turkish-Kurd origin, travelled to South-East Turkey in 2004 and 2005 to shoot footage on honour killings. They are not professional filmmakers but edited an educational film from this material. With the film they try to open the discussion on public high schools on honour killings, honour related violence and harmful traditions. Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet follows them in this process and tries to find out what moves them. Why are they involving themselves in this subject, what does honour mean for themselves and are they themselves subjected to these unwritten laws? Furthermore, Bromet wants to find out if honour killings are an important issue in Dutch society, and how youngsters think about the subject. He also interviews a perpetrator.

Frans Bromet (The Netherlands) | The Netherlands, Turkey | 2007 | 50 min | Dutch subtitles

camera: Frans Bromet (Esther Prade, Yeter Akin, Seren Dalkiran)
sound: Evelyne Draaijer, Ankie Spelbrink, Babbe de Thouars
editor: Mirna Lighthart, Babbe de Thouars, Maarten Velthuis
producer: Bromet & dochters, Stichting Verdwaalde Gezichten

contact: Babbe de Thouars, Bromet & dochters
t: +31 20 4363594
e: babbe@bromet.nl
w: www.bromet.nl

Frans Bromet (1944) studied at the Dutch Film Academy and did camera for a lot of fiction films. Later on, he moved to making documentaries in which he interviewed people with the camera on his shoulder. He has become famous for his series ‘Neighbours’, in which he managed to unveil remarkable neighbourly quarrels. His specific approach is called the ‘involved reportage’, in which the filmmaker is present as a character who can express his feelings and thoughts. Frans Bromet has made a lot of programs in this manner like ‘The Rebuilding’, ‘Bankrupt or Not’ and ‘When the Water Comes’.