The tension never ceases to mount in Loïs Dols de Jong’s riveting thriller NL-Alert. Struggling to get home to her stranded baby, a young mother in Amsterdam receives an emergency alert on her phone: a nuclear missile has been launched at the city and residents have forty-five minutes to evacuate.
With a sharp eye and an admirable economy of expression, NL-Alert crisply anthologises human reactions to calamitous news: distrust, followed by confusion and paralysis, climaxing in all-out panic. Characters face moral dilemmas and life-or-death choices, yet the film remains focused on concrete actions that unfold from moment to moment. Employing a frenetic, often claustrophobic cinematography, NL-Alert thrusts the viewer into a doomsday scenario that, through sheer accumulation of detail, becomes chillingly palpable.
– Srikanth Srinivasan
NL-Alert screens as part of the ‘Koolhoven presenteert‘ programme.
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Film details
- Productieland
- Netherlands
- Jaar
- 2024
- Festivaleditie
- IFFR 2024
- Lengte
- 37'
- Medium/Formaat
- DCP
- Taal
- Dutch
- Première status
- World premiere
- Director
- Loïs Dols de Jong
- Producer
- Suzan de Swaan, Danielle Guirguis
- Screenplay
- Loïs Dols de Jong
- Cinematography
- Ruben van Weelden
- Editing
- Wies Hundling
- Production design
- Aukje Leenaars
- Sound design
- Burak Oztas
- Music
- Nico Maas
- Principal cast
- Liza Macedo Dos Santos, Aline Cornelissen, Lukas Bulteel, Evalinde Lammers, Bright O. Richards
- Sales / World rights holder
- Smarthouse Creative Impact Studio