Filmography of Dirk Vandersypen
Selected Documentaries
March 1992
“Superbarrio” VRT-NV The Wereld – 10’57”
A portrait of this popular hero from Mexico City
December 1992
“Een bakje Troost” (A cup that cheers) VRT-NV The Wereld – 10’25”
Coffee-growers in Nicaragua. The price of coffee makes the difference between a normal life and poverty for them.
January 1993
“Het ijzeren gordijn” (The Iron Curtain) VRT-NV The Wereld – 19’
The border between Mexico and the United States, and every night time and again some 5,000 Mexicans try to cross the border to prosperity.
May 1993
“Betsy” VRT-NV The Wereld – 10’
Portrait of Betsy Hollants, a Flemish lady of 80 who organises relief in Mexico City for elderly despondent and lonely Mexican people
Augustus 1993
“Vergane Glorie” (Faded Glory) VRT-NV The Wereld – 19’15”
Bolivian miners extract tin, silver and zinc in the mines of Potosi, but they don’t get rich from it.
September 1993
“Kinderen van the vuile oorlog” (Children of the dirty war) VRT-NV The Wereld – 29’
The search of the crazy mothers of the Plaza the Mayo for their stolen children.
December 1993
“Papa Jaime” VRT-NV The Wereld – 14’25”
Papa Jaime is a geophysicist during the day, but at night he goes into the sewers of Bogota to save street children.
1994
“Havana-Miami” VRT-NV The Wereld – 18’
A portrait of a Cuban family in Havana and Cubans in Miami. Two worlds compared.
September 1994
“Vervlogen Dromen” (Departed Dreams) VRT-NV The Wereld – 26’ 42”
Life on and around the ‘Malecon’ in Havana, Cuba
October 1994
“De Ketten” (The Kids) VRT-NV The Wereld – 13’48”
Children in Nicaragua are the reporters for a free radio and file complaints against unsavoury circumstances.
January1996
“Cuba 111” VRT-NV The Wereld – 52’
Life in Havana, Cuba through the eyes of the inhabitants of ‘Cuba 111’
January 1998
“Mexico DF, Magic City” VRT-NV The Wereld – 52’
A magical realistic portrait of this city with over a million inhabitants
