Occupied City: Steve McQueen’s Seminal Documentary of Amsterdam, Past and Present, Mapping Street by Street (Cannes Film Fest 2023)

In Occupied City, his startling four-and-a-half-hour documentary, British director Steve McQueen (12 Years a Slave) uses everyday scenes from the contemporary City of Amsterdam to map (literally) the disastrous fate of the city’s Jewish population during World War II.

Cannes Film Fest 2019: Les Miserables–Ladj Ly’s Provocative, Socially Relevant Tale of Parisian Mean Streets

Unfolding as a gritty policier, in the form of an ultra-realistic urban thriller, the movie reflects the terrible current conditions of one Parisian poor suburb, ready to explode in anger and violent riots at the smallest provocation.