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Sheffield DocFest · 2015

Sheffield DocFest 2015

Ideas & Science

Programme

11 films · 2 reviews

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The Archipelago

Documentary about the Faroe islands.

(Country: UK, Faroe Islands; Year: 2015; Director: Benjamin Huguet; Writer: Benjamin Huguet)

The Chimpanzee Complex

A facility for chimps that have been rescued and are now learning to live with their own species.

(Country: Netherlands, Switzerland; Year: 2014; Director: Marc Schmidt; Writer: Marc Schmidt, Marc Schmidt) , Official site

Containment

Review preview for Containment

The film successfully unsettles the viewer by demonstrating the number of headaches the rush to harness the power of the atom has left us.

Owen Van Spall · 3 out of 5
Documentary on the potential future problems from the world's nuclear waste.

(Country: US, Japan; Year: 2015; Director: Peter Galison, Robb Moss) , Official site

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Don't Breathe

Study of the state of Georgian healthcare as seen through the eyes of a fortysomething awaiting diagnosis.

(Country: France; Year: 2014; Director: Nino Kirtadze; Writer: Nino Kirtadze; Stars: Levan Murtazashvili, Irma Inaridze, Sandro Murtazashvili, Ina Inaridze, Nana Inaridze, Dato Murtazashvili, Maïa Murtazashvili, Manana Mikadze, Tina Cholokashvili) , Official site

Drone

Review preview for Drone

An unsettling primer on a new type of warfare that is being developed much more quickly than the legal restrictions to control it.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Documentary about the CIA's covert drone war in Pakistan.

(Country: Norway, US, Pakistan; Year: 2014; Director: Tonje Hessen Schei; Writer: Tonje Hessen Shei; Stars: Shahzad Akbar, Noor Behram, Brandon Bryant, Michael Haas, Clive Stafford Smith, Chris Woods)

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Good Girl

A documentarian hit by depression turns her camera on herself.

(Country: Norway; Year: 2014; Director: Solveig Melkeraaen; Writer: Solveig Melkeraaen; Stars: Ravn Lanesskog, Solveig Melkeraaen)

Merchants Of Doubt

Documentary puts spin doctors in the spotlight.

(Country: US; Year: 2014; Director: Robert Kenner)

My Beautiful Broken Brain

A study of aphasia.

(Country: UK; Year: 2014; Director: Sophie Robinson, Lotje Sodderland; Writer: Sophie Robinson) , Official site

Star Men

Reunion of four astronomers who spent a year in California in the Sixties as part of the US space programme.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2015; Director: Alison Rose )

Sunu

Documentary about Mexican maize growers and the rise of genetically modified crops.

(Country: Mexico; Year: 2015; Director: Teresa Camou Guerrero; Writer: Teresa Garcia, Teresa Garcia)

The Visit (The Visit: An Alien Encounter)

“This film documents an event that has never taken place…” With unprecedented access to the United Nations' Office for Outer Space Affairs, leading space scientists and space agencies, The Visit explores humans' first encounter with alien intelligent life and thereby humanity itself. "Our scenario begins with the arrival. Your arrival."

(Country: Finland, Denmark; Year: 2015; Director: Michael Madsen; Writer: Michael Madsen)