Me Alone in the Classroom

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 darkerskinned 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 Jungers children and their friends All of them come from ethnic minority backgrounds and share a feeling of being excluded from Dutch society Reenactment 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