One People

Original title: Wan Pipel

“One was black. One was white. One was brown.”

Directed by Pim de la Parra

Back in his native Suriname to see his dying mother, an Afro-Surinamese student from the Netherlands’ former colony finds himself torn between his Amsterdam-based life with his white Dutch girlfriend and a future in his newly independent homeland when he falls for a local Hindostani nurse.