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04/06/2018
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 SheffieldContinue Reading
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14/06/2016
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 HegedusContinue Reading
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14/06/2016
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 hisContinue Reading
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10/06/2016
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 programmeContinue Reading
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05/06/2015
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 programmeContinue Reading
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12/06/2014
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 inContinue Reading
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12/06/2014
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 LandContinue Reading
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12/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘112 Weddings’ review
★★☆☆☆ With approximately half of all marriages ending in divorce, what is it that still compels couples to take theContinue Reading
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10/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Slut Phobia?’ review
★★★☆☆ It’s a well-known double standard: women are labelled as ‘sluts’ for being sexually liberal, whilst promiscuous men get aContinue Reading
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10/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Nelson Mandela: The Myth & Me’ review
★★☆☆☆ An unapologetically personal open letter to the former South African president, Khalo Matabane’s Nelson Mandela: The Myth & MeContinue Reading
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10/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Miners Shot Down’ review
★★★★☆ Though we as a society have arguably become more desensitised to depictions of conflict and violence, every now andContinue Reading
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09/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Last Hijack’ review
★★★☆☆ In a world where abstract emotions like fear and terror have been distorted to mobilise society against an invisibleContinue Reading
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09/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Finding Fela’ review
★★★★☆ Whilst drumming up support for his new Broadway musical, FELA!, producer Stephen Hendel described Nigerian Afrobeat exponent Fela KutiContinue Reading
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09/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Concerning Violence’ review
★★★★★ Illustrating the provocative and combative concepts of Martinique-born Afro-French psychiatrist and philosopher Frantz Fanon’s anti-colonial text The Wretched ofContinue Reading
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09/06/2014
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘The 50 Year Argument’ review
★★★☆☆ Martin Scorsese and editor turned co-director David Tedeschi pay homage to a 20th century American institution in The NewContinue Reading