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Sheffield DocFest · 2019

Sheffield DocFest 2019

New/Japan

This section will also feature a screening of Toshio Matsumoto short films.

Programme

7 films

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The Big House

Documentary shot in Michigan Stadium, showing everything but the game.

(Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Kazuhiro Soda, Markus Nornes, Terri Sarris)

UK premiere

Chiyo

A portrait of the director's grandmother.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2019; Director: Chiemi Shimada)

World premiere

Memento Stella

Experimental documentary considering our place in the stars.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Takashi Makino)

UK premiere

Mountain Plain Mountain

Obihiro is the last Ban’ei racecourse – a rare form of horse racing involving heavy sleds. This documentary takes a look.

(Year: 2018; Director: Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby; Writer: Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby)

UK premiere

Norie

During the annual ghost festival in Japan, the director, Yuki, along with his father Munemitsu, embarks upon an emotional journey in the footsteps of Norie.

(Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Yuki Kawamura)

UK premiere

The Pearl Of Tailorbird

Decelerated birdsong gets misinterpreted into Japanese.

(Year: 2019; Director: Rei Hayama)

World premiere

A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch

Science fiction and desire collide when an American researcher meets a Japanese translator.

(Country: Japan, US; Year: 2019; Director: Shelly Silver)

UK premiere