This special screening of Occupied City (2023) is in commemoration of International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

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. [A24]
(PG-13, 246 min.)

Tickets: https://www.moxiecinema.com/films/occupied-city

Reviews
"A singular masterwork." (Irish Times)

"A striking encounter between then and now." (HR)

"Every film is a collection of moving images, but few are as moving as the sights that compose 'Occupied City.'" (RogerEbertcom)

"It’s an attempt to find a new way of keeping the memory of the Holocaust alive, as the people who remember it firsthand disappear." (Slate)

"In the hours and days following its conclusion, you might just find your heart and soul demolished, and somehow made whole again." (TheWrap)

"McQueen and Stigter haven’t just excavated some not-so-ancient history; they’ve also made a haunting, magisterial tribute to a city they clearly love." (L.A. Times)

"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." (NYT)