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Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter on Occupied City and the Haunting Historical Legacy of World War II

on October 5, 2023 in NYFF

Steve McQueen and Bianca Stigter. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Dennis Lim, Bianca Stigter, and Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Bianca Stigter and Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Dennis Lim, Bianca Stigter, and Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Dennis Lim, Bianca Stigter, and Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.
Bianca Stigter and Steve McQueen. Photograph by Richard Jopson.

Director Steve McQueen and writer Bianca Stigter joined Dennis Lim for a Q&A following their film Occupied City, a mammoth confrontation with a shameful historical legacy that draws parallels to our contemporary world. The four-and-a-half hour documentary recounts in prismatic fashion and with startling sobriety the realities of life in Amsterdam during World War II under the Nazi occupation of the Netherlands, using newly shot images of the city’s forever haunted spaces. All NYFF61 feature documentaries are presented by HBO.

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