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 the matrimonial plunge? This is...
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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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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 a pat on the back...
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 & Me (2014) is a sincere...
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 and then a film comes...
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 invisible foe, pirates have become...
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 Kuti as “without question one...
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 of the Earth, Göran Hugo...
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 New York Review of Books:...
