Orange the World 2025
Film screening: 'Blauwdruk' by director Sara Kolster
- Date
- Tuesday 25 November 2025
- Time
- Explanation
- Registration starts at 16.45 hrs, room opens at 17.00 hrs.
- Location
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Schouwburgstraat
Schouwburgstraat 2
2511 VA The Hague - Room
- 0.06
As part of Orange the World 2025, the documentary 'Blauwdruk' by director Sara Kolster is being screened, followed by an in-depth conversation with key voices from the film and experts in the field.
Programme
- Introduction
- Film screening
- Panel conversation and Q&A with director Sara Kolster, co-protagonist and trainer Perla Joy, and local professionals or experts in the field of domestic violence, trauma care, and justice.
In Blauwdruk, Maeve, Roser, Perla, and Aurora come together in an empty space. They talk about that one day, how it happened, and what followed. Using tape, they reconstruct the outline of their childhood home, before it became a crime scene, as if drawing a blueprint of their youth. Through archive footage of everyday family moments, birthday parties, playing outside, beach vacations, the story becomes deeply relatable. Then, a fifth voice emerges: a young woman living in fear that her mother could suffer the same fate.
With Blauwdruk, director Sara Kolster lays bare the lifelong impact of femicide on the children left behind. “At sixteen, I became an orphan, but my father is still alive,” says Perla Joy, one of the film’s protagonists. These words deeply resonated with Kolster, inspiring a documentary that doesn’t just remember, but calls for recognition, support, and systemic change.
Sara Kolster
Sara Kolster (47) is a graphic designer, documentary filmmaker, and trained grief counselor for children and youth. In her work, she weaves animation and storytelling into deeply moving narratives on grief and loss, often through the eyes of children. Her earlier work includes the award-winning documentary series Zo dood als een pier (HUMAN), the podcast Toen ik vijf was (VPRO), and the youth documentary Wolkenzusje (HUMAN, Kids & Docs).
Perla Joy
Perla Joy (33) is a coach and trainer. At 16, she lost her parents, yet never lost her drive for life. She helps people find their own path and make choices that reflect who they truly are. As an advocate for awareness, gender equality, and justice, particularly around femicide, Perla uses her personal story to push for better care and support for children affected by domestic violence.
Dr. Marieke Liem
Dr. Marieke Liem is professor of Security and Interventions at Leiden University, where she and her team coordinate the European Homicide Monitor. A graduate of University of Cambridge in the U.K., Marieke Liem completed her PhD in Forensic Psychology from Utrecht University, the Netherlands. Before joining the Institute of Security and Global Affairs, she was a Marie Curie fellow at Harvard University. Her research interests involve interpersonal violence, with specific research projects on domestic homicide (including intimate partner homicide), homicide by the mentally ill, homicide followed by suicide, the effects of confinement on violent offenders, and international comparative research on lethal violence.
Orange the World
All three screenings are held in the context of the Orange the World campaign, the international initiative to end violence against women and girls. Intimate partner femicide, partner violence resulting in a woman’s death, remains an urgent issue. Between 2014 and 2024, hundreds of children in the Netherlands lost their mothers to partner violence. The consequences for these children are profound, long-term, and often invisible.
With this film and the conversations that follow, we want to help break the silence, raise awareness, and amplify the voices of those who live with the consequences.
Blauwdruk is part of a larger multimedia project. In collaboration with professor Marieke Liem and the Femicide Monitor, the creators will publish a factsheet and online visualization in November 2025 with data on children in the Netherlands who lost a parent due to partner violence between 2014–2024. In 2026, an online platform will be launched to share more stories and interviews with bereaved children and experts.
This project includes a series of intimate screenings, educational workshops for young people, and an impact campaign that aims to push for improved care for child survivors of femicide.
More Information
Visit: https://blauwdruk.org