Road-movie linking 15 North American provincial towns, all homonyms of the Dutch capital. From East to West - from the arrival in New York, the former Nieuw Amsterdam, to California - two directors of Dutch origin, Rogier van Eck & Rob Rombout, sketch a portrait of "small town America" by following a single name. Operating like a sesame, the name Amsterdam allows us to approach both the reality and the imaginary of deepest America. The result is an unusual depiction of a little-known, intimate, sometimes strange America, where the filmmakers are also protagonists among many others. This six-hour documentary is structured into four 90-minute chapters: EAST - SOUTH - MIDWEST - WEST.
An RTBF Secteur Documentaire (Belgian Television), WIP - Wallonie Image Production, Pieter van Huystee Film (Amsterdam) coproduction, with the support of the Centre du Cinéma and the Wallonie-Bruxelles Federation and VOO (TV-NET-TEL) and Wallonie Image Production, with the support of the Belgian Federal Government's Tax Shelter and BAYA Mathieu Bayart.
Directed by Rob Rombout, Rogier van Eck
Screenplay: Rob Rombout, Rogier van Eck
Music: Hughes Maréchal
Producer(s) : Hubert Toint, Jean-Jacques Neira
Production manager(s): Benjamin Stienon
Director of photography: Ben Wolf
Image editing: Fanny Roussel, Alice de Matha, Frédéric Dupont
Sound editing: Guillaume Berg
Sound mixing: Rainier Buidin
Les Magritte du Cinéma: Best Documentary Feature Film
IndieLisboa - Lisbon International Independent Film Festival: Audience Award for Best Feature Film
International Festival of Ethnological Film: Grand Prix "Dragoslav Antonijević".
Taiwan International Documentary Festival: Nominated for the Grand Prize
International Documentary Festival Amsterdam
Étonnants Voyageurs Festival
Quinzaine du cinéma francophone
Aux Écrans du Réel Festival
Tiburon International Film Festival
Korean American Film Festival New York
Short Long World Festival
Portobello Film Festival
