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OCCUPIED CITY

By Steve MCQUEEN

MODERN FILMS - as DISTR Theatrical, TV, DVD-video, VOD, Airline, UNITED KINGDOM

Documentary - Completed 2023

Festivals
& Awards

BFI London FF 2023

Special Presentation

Cannes 2023

Special Screening

BIFA 2023

Nominee: Best Feature Documentary

New York FF 2023

Official Selection

Telluride FF 2023

Official Selection

International Documentary Film Festival Amsterdam 2023

Official Selection, Signed

- Year of production
- 2023
- Genres
- Documentary
- Countries
- UNITED KINGDOM, NETHERLANDS, USA
- Languages
- ENGLISH, DUTCH
- Duration
- 266 mn
- Director(s)
- Steve MCQUEEN
- Synopsis
- Where do the memories of a city go? From Oscar- and BAFTA-winning filmmaker and Turner Prize-winning visual artist Steve McQueen, comes this mesmerising and monumental excavation of how the past haunts our precarious present: mirroring it and warning us in plain sight.
  
  Informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied City: Amsterdam 1940-1945 written by Bianca Stigter, the documentary creates two interlocking portraits. One shows the city’s devastating Nazi occupation through door-to-door accounts – tales of Jewish persecution, of resistance, collaboration, valour, and denial. The other is a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. The combination has a transformative effect with which McQueen opens up a poetic, dreamlike space where unthinkable history and hope for a new future co-exist.