Without warning, and with no charges or a trial, a man is suddenly thrown into jail – in appalling conditions. Filmmaker Ewan Macbeth took a letter from his father to Amnesty International as the starting point for Prison with Songbirds, and tells the story through gripping, nightmarish images.
– Christiaan Boesenach
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Promised Land
Five Americans meet to contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven 400 years earlier. -
Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd?
A young woman explores her grandmother’s past. Fragments of her diary hark back to the war.
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Film details
- Countries of production
- Netherlands, United Kingdom
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 12'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
