Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: Our programme highlights
This Thursday (6 June) the seven hills of Sheffield will once again open up to the innovators and icons of documentary cinema as UK...
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10 June 2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: For Sama review
★★★★★ Waad al-Kateab moved to Aleppo, Syria, at the age of 18 to go to university. She fell in love with a doctor, they...
10 June 2019
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019: Property review
★★☆☆☆ For six years, director Matthias Lintner lived in one of Berlin’s last squatter communities with a handful of absurd and colourful characters for...
10 June 2019
Doc/Fest 2019: Don’t Be A Dick About It review
★★★★★ Brotherhood takes a lot of patience. Such is the nature of masculinity as a collective construct that fraternity can be at once one...
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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018: Our programme highlights
This week sees the return of one of the highlights of the UK’s festival calendar in the form of Sheffield Doc/Fest, which runs from...
Doc/Fest 2016: Unlocking the Cage review
★★★☆☆ A pioneering and hugely unlikely legal case might seem like an ideal focus for legendary filmmaking duo Chris Hegedus and D.A. Pennebaker, whose...
Doc/Fest 2016: Lobanovskiy Forever review
★★☆☆☆ Valeriy Lobanovskiy enjoyed a great deal of success during his 30-year career as a football manager, particularly for his time at the helm...
Doc/Fest 2016: Programme highlights
One of the annual highlights of the documentary calendar, Sheffield Doc/Fest returns this June (10-15) with another reassuringly full programme that’s true testament to...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2015: Our picks
One of the annual highlights of the documentary calender, Sheffield Doc/Fest returns today (5-10 June) with another reassuringly full programme that’s true testament to...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Life Itself’ review
★★★☆☆ The outpouring of emotion following the death of beloved American film critic Roger Ebert last year remains unparalleled in the modern day; few...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘How We Used to Live’ review
★★★☆☆ Unlike recent pioneering archive-led offerings such as Penny Woolcock’s British Sea Power collaboration From the Sea to the Land Beyond and John Akomfrah’s...