Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Visitors’ review
★★★★☆ Godfrey Reggio seems cursed to be forever looked upon as a perpetrator of the modes and forms of the music video and advert...
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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 2014: ‘Utopia’ review
★★★★★ Forthright director John Pilger’s previous incendiary documentary, 2010’s The War You Don’t See, was a brilliant and eye-opening examination of the media’s handling...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Regarding Susan Sontag’ review
★★★☆☆ Susan Sontag, a formidable voice on American politics and culture, once said of cinema: “Movies preserve the past, resurrect the beautiful dead.” In...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘Pulp: A Film’ review
★★★★☆ Far from an overnight success, Sheffield-based group Pulp originally formed in 1978, but only achieved major recognition in the nineties with their unique...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: ‘The Case Against 8’ review
★★★☆☆ A classic case of content overriding form, Ben Cotner and Ryan White’s gay marriage rights doc The Case Against 8 (2014) stirs the...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2014: Picks of the programme
The annual Sheffield Doc/Fest, which takes place from 7-12 June, recently unveiled its full programme for this year’s international documentary showcase. The festival’s biggest...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012: Award winners roundup
The wonderful Sheffield Doc/Fest sees off its second summer and its 19th year with some fantastic titles, events and workshops – particularly the opening...
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2012: ‘The Miners’ Hymns’ review
★★★☆☆ In Decasia (2002), experimental American filmmaker Bill Morrison explored the fragility of film by looking at decomposing celluloid. In The Miners’ Hymns (2010),...
