Me Alone in the Classroom (2017)
• March 23rd, 2017 • 1h 14min
Documentary
Overview
Doing really well on your school assessment tests, but still having the school recommend that you go to preparatory vocational school. Going to a club with friends and having the bouncer keep you out. Having to endure jokes from classmates. These are examples of the sort of casual racism that the children of director Karin Junger and their friends have to face. In Ik alleen in de klas, director Karin Junger, white mother of three darker-skinned children, stands with her family to confront the racism they experience in their daily lives. Twelve adolescents meet at a mansion in France. The group consists of Junger’s children and their friends. All of them come from ethnic minority backgrounds and share a feeling of being excluded from Dutch society. Re-enactment is used to explore painful situations again. In this simple but effective documentary, we can see the impact of subtle and less subtle forms of racism on the lives of young Dutch people.
Make sure to check your pop-up blocker!!
Trailer
Similar Movies
Man on Fire
Released on: 2018-01-24
Documentary
Grand Saline, Texas, was a sleepy, unremarkable town—until a white preacher lit himself on fire to p...
What Happened, Miss Simone?
Released on: 2015-01-22
Music, Documentary
The film chronicles Nina Simone's journey from child piano prodigy to iconic musician and passionate...
We Are Not Our Parents
Released on: 2024-08-18
Documentary, History
Reserved by Citroën for immigrant workers, the Aulnay-sous-Bois factory experienced its first strike...
Joe Louis: America's Hero Betrayed
Released on: 2008-02-23
Documentary
An American story. Traces the career of Joe Louis (1914-1981) within the context of American racial ...
Behind the Burning Cross: Racism USA
Released on: 1991-01-01
Documentary
A key overview of twentieth-century American fascism and antifascism produced in 1991 by the John Br...
Journey into Gaza
Released on: 2024-11-06
Documentary
“In Gaza you have to get there in the evening, in spring, lock yourself in your room and from there ...
« Je ne suis pas chinetoque » : Histoire du racisme anti-asiatique
Released on: 2024-02-04
Documentary, TV Movie
Journalist Émilie Tran Nguyen invites the viewer to follow her in her quest and discover, at the sam...
Be Water
Released on: 2020-01-25
Documentary
In 1971, after being rejected by Hollywood, Bruce Lee returned to his parents’ homeland of Hong Kong...
Coded Bias
Released on: 2020-11-11
Documentary
Exploring the fallout of MIT Media Lab researcher Joy Buolamwini's startling discovery that facial r...
Oachkatzlschwoaf
Released on:
Documentary
Words are loaded with meaning. Certain ones conjure joyful memories and others remind us of less hap...
The Problem with Apu
Released on: 2017-11-18
Documentary
In the history of “The Simpsons,” few characters outside the title family have had as much cultural ...
But... Seriously
Released on: 1994-03-25
Documentary
A documentary juxtaposing the events of the 20th century with the commentary of stand-up comedians.
After the Apology
Released on: 2017-10-09
Documentary, History
Suellyn thought the Department of Community Services (DOCS) would only remove children in extreme ca...
Two Towns of Jasper
Released on: 2002-01-13
Documentary
Using two separate filmmaking teams (an all-white crew filming white residents and an all-black came...
L'écho de la révolte - Les émeutes 10 ans après
Released on: 2015-01-01
Documentary
On October 27, 2005, Zyed Benna and Bouna Traoré died in an electrical substation while fleeing the ...
Meeting David Wilson
Released on: 2008-06-01
Documentary
African American filmmaker David A. Wilson decided to look into his family's history during the slav...
The Musicians' Green Book: An Enduring Legacy
Released on: 2022-11-26
Music, Documentary
Stories and music of Black artists who relied on an underground travel guide to navigate the injusti...
Hafu
Released on: 2013-04-05
Documentary
A journey into the intricacies of mixed-race Japanese and their multicultural experiences in modern ...