“The film comes on a historical backdrop that remains as relevant as ever. Where Indonesia is concerned, the transfer of Dutch New Guinea to Indonesia in 1963 is regarded as the end of the Netherlands’ 250-year colonial empire. In the past weeks, however, colonialism has returned to the headlines, as the UK returned sovereignty of the Chagos Islands to Mauritius, after they had been colonised first by the French and then by the British in 1814.”