Completed - ENGLISH, DUTCH - Documentary - 266 minutes
Year of production : 2023 Director(s) : Steve MCQUEEN
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.
Country(ies) : UNITED KINGDOM, NETHERLANDS, USA
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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)