Promised Land portrays five Americans, contemplating the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Rotterdam. Some 400 years earlier, their ship the Mayflower left the port of Delfshaven for America. Upon arrival, they depended heavily on the native population and enjoyed their first Thanksgiving meal. But how should we see the Pilgrims today, and should we even honour these heroes of days gone by?
– Christiaan Boesenach
Also in this combined programme
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Prison with Songbirds
A man is suddenly thrown into jail. His story is told through nightmarish images. -
Fantoomwijk
A lively working-class neighbourhood is forced to make way for luxury homes. Fantoomwijk shows the destructive consequences for its former reside -
We Are Strange
A cinematic collage that shows humankind in all its beauty, ugliness and strangeness. -
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
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2022
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 19'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
