How do second-generation Dutch people with a migration background see their native country? This hybrid documentary, filled with anecdotes and conversations, takes stock of the doubt whether you are allowed to feel at home in the Netherlands. Which types of microaggression do second-generation Dutch people with a migration background meet with? This short and poetical documentary illustrates, based on anecdotes, outward insecurities and unburdening conversations, how repeatedly being treated as the Other is becoming internalised. Using rotoscope animation techniques these anecdotes and conversations are brought to life. The film shows how all interviewees doubt whether they are allowed to feel at home in the Netherlands. So how do we still find the freedom to say the words: Yet only here I am home?
ATHENS ANIMFEST
