“As OCCUPIED CITY continues to juxtapose the city’s history with its present—with chronicles of varying length that chart Jewish struggle, resistance, death and survival—the film builds tremendous force.”
—Manohla Dargis, The New York Times

“This era calls for a new kind of film about that time — a new way of preserving memory and cautioning us against a repetition of crimes against humanity driven by a racist ideology. Occupied City is that film.”
—Deadline Hollywood

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.