Film

Refugeedom: Lonely But Not Alone

2023 · 24m · Drama

A lesson in looking

With the non-existing word “refugee-dom” Lena Verhoeff and I wanted to express the state, emotional and physical, of the life of the refugee on the road. On everyday television, we see images of people walking with luggage and small children and exhausted faces. But our theme was a bit different. The phrase “lonely but not alone” came from an autobiography of former Dutch queen Wilhelmina, published in 1959, to describe her life as always surrounded by a dense crowd of people at court but still, always feeling lonely. The two qualifiers, lonely and alone, which seem to be synonymous, are here, through the conjunction “but”, rather presented as an opposition; an opposition qualifying a non-existing noun.

Sly Maceo Sampimon

Joseph/Yusuf, the refugee

Catherine Lord

Potiphar's Wife/Mut Em-Enet

Arthur Clifton

Bully

Skipper Doornhein

Bully

Michelle Williams Gamaker

Voice-over

• Mieke BalDirector · Writer
• Lena VerhoeffDirector · Editor

Release date

October 1, 2023

Status

Released

Original language

English

Runtime

24m

Genres

Drama