Women of Geuzenveld
Women of Geuzenveld
Nina Pieters
Netherlands / 2009 / 33'
Women of Geuzenveld
Nina Pieters
Netherlands / 2009 / 33'

Geuzenveld is a part of Amsterdam in Holland, where many Turks and Moroccans live together. Many of these women are locked up in their houses and feel depressed. One day the organization Be interactive started a running course. They started at the primary schools where the mothers meet. From there they started to run. Sometimes secretly... It looks like a simple thing but it is not since in the eyes of many neighbors a good mother and a good Muslim should stay at home. It is easy to imagine how the neighbors reacted when they decided participate at a race in Casablanca for 30.000 women. For the first time in their lives they went without family to do something for themselves.

Director

Nina Pieters

Nina Pieters worked for 15 years with young people in trouble in several districts of Amsterdam. Since 2000 he works as a freelance documentary filmmaker, teaches at the Open Studio in Amsterdam and organized film projects in schools.

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