Occupied City

Steve McQueen — The NetherlandsUnited Kingdom — 2023 — 266'

The past collides with precarious present in the film Occupied city, informed by the book Atlas of an Occupied city written by Bianca Stigter.Two interlocking portraits: an excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts Amsterdam, and a vivid journey through the end of pandemic and protest, emerge as both devastating and life-affirming, like a journey through memory and where we’re headed.