The past collides with our precarious present in this daring documentary, crafted by an Academy-Award winner who has delivered masterpieces on the nature of power (Hunger, 12 Years a Slave). 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.
Occupied City
Occupied City
26th TIDF: Greek Premiere
Screening Schedule
No physical screenings scheduled. |
- Direction: Steve McQueen
- Script: Bianca Stitger
- Cinematography: Lennert Hillege
- Editing: Xander Nijsten
- Sound: Jan Schermer
- Production: Family Affair Films
- Producers: Floor Onrust, Steve McQueen, Anna Smith-Tenser, Bianca Stigter
- Co-production: Lammas Park, VPRO
- Executive producer: Arnon Milchan, Yariv Milchan, Michael Schaefer, Ben Cotner, Adriana Banta, Emily Osborne, Ollie Madden, Daniel Battsek, Ben Coren, Barbara Truyen, Joost Janmaat, Clea de Koning
- Narration: Melanie Hyams
- Format: DCP
- Color: Color
- Production Country: The Netherlands, UK, USA
- Production Year: 2023
- Duration: 266'
- Contact: mk2 Films
Steve McQueen
Filmography
1993 Bear (short fiction)
1997 Deadpan (short)
2001 7th Nov. (short)
2008 Hunger (fiction)
2011 Shame (fiction)
2013 12 Years a Slave (fiction)
2016 Mr. Burberry (fiction short)
2018 Widows (fiction)
2023 Occupied City
1997 Deadpan (short)
2001 7th Nov. (short)
2008 Hunger (fiction)
2011 Shame (fiction)
2013 12 Years a Slave (fiction)
2016 Mr. Burberry (fiction short)
2018 Widows (fiction)
2023 Occupied City
