OCCUPIED CITY (DE BEZETTE STAD)

Steve McQueen | 2023 | 270 min | The Netherlands | English spoken

The past collides with our precarious present in Steve McQueen’s bravura documentary Occupied City, informed by the book, Atlas of an Occupied City (Amsterdam 1940-1945) written by Bianca Stigter. McQueen creates two interlocking portraits: a door-to-door excavation of the Nazi occupation that still haunts his adopted city, and a vivid journey through the last years of pandemic and protest. What emerges is both devastating and life-affirming, an expansive meditation on memory, time, and where we’re headed.

Director Steve McQueen Writer Bianca Stigter Producer Floor Onrust, Family Affair Films Co-producer Anna Smith-Tenser, Lammas Park & VPRO DOP Lennert Hillege N.S.C. Editor Xander Nijsten Co-editor Steve McQueen Narrator Melanie Hyams Composer Oliver Coates Sound recorder Jos ten Klooster Sound design Jan Schermer Line Producer Sophie van Caenegem Post Production Supervisor Neeltje van der Heijden 1st Assistant Director Koen van der Knaap 1st Assistent Camera Danny van Deventer & Deen van Liempt full cast and crew

Sales agent New Regency Financiers Netherlands Film Fund, Production Incentive, Regency, A24, Film4, Mondriaan Fund, Amsterdam Fund for the Arts, Stichting Virtutis Opus

Festivals Festival de Cannes 2023, IDFA 2023, New York Film Festival 2023, Critics Choice Awards 2023
Nominations Critics Choice Awards 2023: Best Director, Best Historic Documentary, Best Cinematography