Albert Klein Haneveld

We think we know what ethnic profiling is, but what does it feel like? Dutch citizens report on at times bizarre and disconcerting experiences with police checks, where their skin colour routinely makes them suspicious. For years, the police has been aiming to proactively execute security checks in order to arrest more riff-raff. But practise shows that Dutch people with a migration background are regularly stopped without any suspicion of criminal offences. Poignantly, the teacher, the soldier, the lawyer, the rapper, the fellow police officer and other coloured Dutchmen talk about helplessness, frustration, humiliation, alienation, anger and what it feels like to be a suspect from the start. Wry, but insightful indictment of ethnic profiling.

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Joppe dreams of love, marriage and children. Being born a boy only complicates things slightly.

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Two-part documentary in which filmmaker Frans Bromet follows the events surrounding the functional obsolescence of two churches in the municipality of Weesp. Due to the PKN merger within the Protestant community, the Maarten Luther Church and the Reformed Church Centre Hogewey are losing their regular churchgoers. What to do with these buildings of devotion and faith?

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In this series of five feature-length reports, the theme of 'assistance' takes center stage in the broadest sense of the word. Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet delves into the lives of care providers and those in need of help at the invitation of various care organizations.

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Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet portrays the Arnhem neighborhood of Klarendal through the eyes of its residents, organizations, activities, and problems. The neighborhood is on the list of forty problem neighborhoods announced in 2007 by Ella Vogelaar, Minister of Housing, Neighborhoods, and Integration. Under the 'Vogelaar approach,' the neighborhoods on this list are subject to a multi-year, comprehensive restructuring, in which government bodies collaborate with housing corporations and social, community, and cultural institutions established in the area. Together with the residents, Bromet questions whether such a restructuring is necessary and, if so, how it can best be implemented.

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Documentary by Frans Bromet about the potential danger of flooding in his hometown of Ilpendam in North Holland as a result of climate change.

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Documentary filmmaker Frans Bromet goes in search of local political life and has chosen Enkhuizen as his subject of study. Over the course of six episodes, he follows a number of politicians from local parties and attempts to expose the political relationships between the parties to the viewer.

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Report by Frans Bromet on self-organizations of immigrants in the Netherlands and the role these organizations play in the integration of immigrants into Dutch society. Bromet visits, among other places, a radio studio in Nijmegen where a program for Somalis is being recorded, the 'bowling for Turkish families' package by STGT, and an information evening about politics in the Netherlands for immigrant women. Some activities explicitly aim for integration, while for others, integration is at best a side effect.

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Yassine, an ambitious Moroccan-Dutch boy, wants to get rid of prejudice. That's why he became a children's mayor. In The Netherlands, Moroccan people have a bad name. But he has a marvelous plan to solve this problem.

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