MONITORING THE DORDTSELAAN FOR MAXIMUM PEACE OF MIND

DIRECTORS: Iratxe Jaio, Klaas Van Gorkum

COUNTRY: Holanda

PRODUCTION YEAR: 2004

RUNTIME: 15´

FORMAT: Mini-DV

SYNOPSIS: Daily life in the Dordtselaan, one of the so-called ‘hotspots’ of Rotterdam. A ‘hotspot’ is a location in the city where drastic measures are taken to avoid street criminality, ghetto forming and illegal immigration. One of these measures is the temporary suspension of constitutional citizens rights, authorizing police to seal off a whole street and perform body searches on all passers-by without having to go through the usual legal procedures.