When an NL Alert indicates that people have 30 minutes to seek shelter from a nuclear disaster, 16-year-old Leah tries to get home to rescue her younger sister, whom she was supposed to be babysitting.
Director Loïs Dols de Jong and producer Suzan de Swaan will present and Q&A.
Grimmfest Says: In the generation-traumatising tradition of Peter Watkins’ THE WAR GAME and Mick Jackson’s THREADS, Grimmfest is delighted to present the International Premiere of Loïs Dols de Jong’s suffocatingly tense, emotionally brutal, and utterly unflinching AMSTERDAM ALERT; a masterclass of white-knuckle cinema verité storytelling, in which the city of Amsterdam is faced with the thirty-minute countdown to a nuclear strike, and the instinct for survival overrides every other consideration. In the current global political climate, it’s a film that feels all-too-terrifyingly real.