Friday, April 26, 6:30 PM - Special full-capacity screening

Steve McQueen | Documentary | Netherlands, United Kingdom | 2023 | 262m (with intermission)

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.

Proceeds from this special one-night screening will go to the World Food Program's Palestine Emergency Appeal.

"In its scale and seriousness, Occupied City allows its emotional implication to amass over its running time. The effect is mysterious and moving." -Peter Bradshaw, The Guardian

"Occupied City, although it speaks of facts that hit like blows, is a subtle piece of work." -Fionnuala Halligan, Screen International

"In the hours and days following its conclusion, you might just find your heart and soul demolished, and somehow made whole again." -Tomris Laffly, The Wrap

Tickets $8.75 ($8 cash at the door if available).