Pieter van Huystee Film & TV
EYE Film Institute Netherlands
Nederlands Instituut voor Beeld en Geluid
They Call Me Babu
(Ze noemen me Baboe)
Overview
In the 1940s, Alima decides to flee from an arranged marriage to work as a nanny for a Dutch family. Through all her new impressions and thoughts, she looks critically at colonial society and her own position.