Event Description
A film showing as part of the Borderlines Film Festival
Taking as its starting point Bianca Stigter’s Atlas of an Occupied City, Amsterdam 1940- 1945, it visits 130 (edited down from 2,000) locations in present-day Amsterdam that the Jewish community inhabited before and during the Nazi occupation of the city.
As Melanie Hyams’ voiceover quietly and matter-of-factly narrates what took place at each site, we confront all sorts of dissonance between the traumatic past and a mundane present, threaded through with new preoccupations and causes. Out of a simple but rigorous process comes something moving, nuanced and monumental in sheer detail.
DIRECTOR: Steve McQueen
WITH THE VOICE OF: Melanie Hyams
UK/NETHERLANDS
2023
4 HOURS 22 MINUTES (WITH BUILT-IN INTERMISSION)
ENGLISH/DUTCH/HEBREW + ENGLISH SUBTITLES
Price:
Mornings and matinees: £7.50/£8.50 (Premium seats)
Concessions and members discounts apply
Borderlines Film Festival 2024 is bigger than ever
Britain’s biggest rural film festival, one of the six largest film festivals in the UK, is set to take place from 1 – 17 March with a record number of screenings and events, just short of 300 in total. Borderlines covers a large area of country with 23 venues across Herefordshire, Shropshire, Malvern and the Marches, from mixed-arts centres and art deco picture palaces to remote village halls.
Supported by the BFI, awarding funds from the National Lottery, the Elmley Foundation and Hereford City Council, Borderlines offers audiences the opportunity to watch some of the very best new releases, including Oscar and BAFTA nominated titles like All of Us Strangers and The Zone of Interest, American Fiction and Anatomy of a Fall (winner of the 2023 Palme d’Or at Cannes).