Wiren

Wiren

105 mins | Drama | Dec. 12, 2019

When nine-year-old Wiren meets the American Dr. Young a world of opportunities opens up for the small deaf boy. Driven by his ambition to get ahead in life he leaves his life in rural Nickerie behind and winds up at the Kennedy boarding school in the capital Paramaribo. He struggles to comply to the strict, conservative Catholic methods at the school, but turns out to become the catalyst for the change that leads to the introduction of sign language. After being rejected by the university he realizes that deaf people do not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as hearing people. Witnessing the constant withhold of deaf people in Suriname leads Wiren to seek justice by suing the government to coerce them to adhere to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities. Will he succeed?

Wiren

105 mins | Drama | Dec. 12, 2019

Wiren
When nine-year-old Wiren meets the American Dr. Young a world of opportunities opens up for the small deaf boy. Driven by his ambition to get ahead in life he leaves his life in rural Nickerie behind and winds up at the Kennedy boarding school in the capital Paramaribo. He struggles to comply to the strict, conservative Catholic methods at the school, but turns out to become the catalyst for the change that leads to the introduction of sign language. After being rejected by the university he realizes that deaf people do not enjoy the same rights and opportunities as hearing people. Witnessing the constant withhold of deaf people in Suriname leads Wiren to seek justice by suing the government to coerce them to adhere to the Convention of the Rights of People with Disabilities. Will he succeed?
Producers It Goes Productions
Original title Wiren
Directors Ivan Tai-Apin
Writers Sander Coumou, Ivan Tai-Apin

Cast

Anthony Frazier

as Dr. Young

Borger Breeveld

as Dr. Emanuels

Erwin Emanuels

as Father Lily

Idi Lemmers

as Wiren

Rafe Leysner

as Wiren

Kavita Ramphal

as Mother Wiren

Gaby Treurniet

as Lily

Rajiv Ganga

as Elementary school director

Pearl Brunings

as Judge