Occupied City | Official UK Trailer | A24, Film4, Modern Films

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.
The film includes a 15-minute intermission.
★★★★★ “MONUMENTAL … MOVING … ASKS HARD QUESTIONS ABOUT THE GULF
BETWEEN PAST AND PRESENT” Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian
★★★★ “HYPNOTIC … HORRIFIC … ACTIVELY UN-TEAR-JERKING .. GLOWING WITH
PROMISE AND LIFE" - Robbie Collin, The Telegraph
“STARTLING AND FORMALLY RIGOROUS” - Critic’s Pick, Manohlo Dargis, New York Times
“MASTERFUL … QUIETLY STAGGERING” - Justin Chang, Los Angeles Times
DIRECTOR Steve McQueen
COUNTRY OF PRODUCTION United Kingdom, Netherlands, United States
--On release in the UK and Ireland February 9
--Event Screening Day on Sunday February 11 including a Q&A with Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter broadcast live from The Barbican into 50+ cinemas nationwide.
--Book Tickets Here: www.modernfilms.com/occupiedcity/liveevent