A young woman wanders through her grandmother’s house and delves into her past. Fragments of her diary make her memories of the war come alive. With its serene and captivating style, Zingen vogels ook in oorlogstijd? raises questions about what we remember and what we pass on from one generation to the next.
– 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. -
Promised Land
Five Americans meet to contemplate the departure of the Pilgrim Fathers from Delfshaven 400 years earlier.
Film details
- Country of production
- Netherlands
- Year
- 2023
- Festival edition
- IFFR 2023
- Length
- 4'
- Medium/Format
- DCP
