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Sheffield DocFest · 2015

Sheffield DocFest 2015

Global Encounters

Programme

15 films · 6 reviews

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Almost There

An exploration of an elerly artist's past has unexpected effects on his future.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Dan Rybicky, Aaron Wickenden; Stars: Peter Anton)

Best Of Enemies

Review preview for Best Of Enemies

Neville and Gordon wisely embed the verbal duels into the surroundings.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 4.5 out of 5
A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F Buckley Jr, and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville; Writer: Robert Gordon, Morgan Neville; Stars: Dick Cavett, Gore Vidal, William F. Buckley Jr., Noam Chomsky, Christopher Hitchens, Matt Tyrnauer, Brooke Gladstone, Ginia Bellafante, Sam Tanenhaus)

Full review See: Robert Gordon in conversation on Best Of Enemies , Morgan Neville in conversation on Best Of Enemies

The Empire Of Scents (Le Nez)

Exploration of our sense of smell.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Kim Nguyen)

Guidelines (La marche à suivre)

Documentary about youngsters on the cusp of adolescence.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2014; Director: Jean-François Caissy)

I Want To Be A King

A man who has turned to ecotourism in a nomadic area of Iran.

(Country: Iran; Year: 2014; Director: Mehdi Ganji; Writer: Mehdi Ganji)

Kings Of Nowhere (Los reyes del pueblo que no existe)

Story of the struggle of families living in a partially submerged village in Mexico.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Betzabé García; Writer: Betzabé García; Stars: Irineo Osuna Enciso, María Aura Zazueta Lamphar, Ramiro Osuna Moreno, Paula Sánchez Osuna, Cipriano Osuna Sánchez) , Official site

Landfill Harmonic

Review preview for Landfill Harmonic

The creative spirit displayed by the young, adventurous musicians in the Landfill Harmonic is a joy to behold.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
Garbage from a landfill is used to create instruments for the local children, who form the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, which turns their lives around.

(Country: Paraguay, Norway, Brazil, US; Year: 2015; Director: Brad Allgood, Graham Townsley, Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus)

Full review See: Recycled Orchestra of Cateura members in conversation on Landfill Harmonic , interview with Favio Chávez about Landfill Harmonic , Interview with Juliana Peñaranda-Loftus and Alejandra Amarilla about Landfill Harmonic

Limited Partnership

Review preview for Limited Partnership

This documentary brings an important personal dimension to the long struggle for equal marriage.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
Two men who married in Colorado in 1975 recall their struggle for true equality and talk of the love that kept them going.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Thomas G Miller; Stars: Tony Sullivan, Richard Adams)

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The Mask You Live In

Is there a "boy crisis" in America? Is our male population suffering due to our emphasis on power, dominance, and aggression? The Mask You Live In explores how our narrow definition of masculinity is harming our boys, men, and society at large and unveils what we can do about it.

(Country: US; Year: 2015; Director: Jennifer Siebel Newsom; Writer: Jessica Congdon, Jennifer Siebel Newsom)

Meru

Review preview for Meru

Both Chin and Ozturk have professional filmmaking experience but even so, what they manage to capture is remarkable given the conditions.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
A documentary about the ascent of an unconquered mountain.

(Country: US, India; Year: 2014; Director: Jimmy Chin, Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi; Stars: Jon Krakauer, Renan Ozturk, Jimmy Chin, Conrad Anker, Grace Chin, Jennifer Lowe-Anker, Amee Hinkley)

Full review See: Jimmy Chin in conversation about Meru , Conversation with Jimmy Chin and Elizabeth Chai Vasarhelyi about Meru

Planetary

Review preview for Planetary

The further the documentary progresses, the more enlightenment is strangled by hand-wringing.

Amber Wilkinson · 2 out of 5
Philosophical musings on the state of the Earth.

(Country: UK, US, Canada, India, Indonesia, Vietnam, Nepal, Tanzania; Year: 2015; Director: Guy Reid; Writer: Steve Watts Kennedy; Stars: Janine Benyus, Ronald Garan, Joan Halifax, Paul Hawken, Karmapa The 17th, Elizabeth Lindsey, David Loy, Joanna Macey, Bill McKibben, Subonfu Some)

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Scrum

Documentary about the gay rugby world cup.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Poppy Stockell; Writer: Poppy Stockell)

Surviving Sandy Hook

Three families talk about their experiences in the wake of the Sandy Hook Elementary School shootings.

(Country: US, UK; Year: 2015; Director: Jezza Neumann; Stars: David Burke, J.T. Lewis, Scarlett Lewis)

Tyke Elephant Outlaw

The story of a circus elephant that went on a rampage in Honolulu.

(Country: Australia; Year: 2015; Director: Susan Lambert, Stefan Moore)