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Sheffield DocFest · 2020

Sheffield DocFest 2020

Rebellions

The festival is running a June and autumn schedule, indicated in italics below.

Programme

15 films · 3 reviews

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Antonio & Piti (Antonio And Piti)

Piti, a white Brazilian woman, is married to Antonio, a man from the Ashaninka indigenous community. It was a revolutionary decision back in the 70s - now, as their son runs for a mayorship, they recall their story.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Vincent Carelli, Wewito Piyãko)

Screening in autumn 2020

The Art Of Living In Danger

It all begins in the past: with Mina Keshavarz’s grandmother, who was a victim of domestic violence. In Mina’s present, a group of Iranian feminists has founded a campaign called "Stop Domestic Violence Against Women" - she documents their story.

(Country: Germany, Iran; Year: 2020; Director: Mina Keshavarz)

Screening in autumn 2020

Bakoroman

Tracks five young Bakoroman on the road from their village to Ouagadougou, Burkina Faso's capital city, in pursuit of a better life.

(Country: Burkina Faso; Year: 2012; Director: Simplice Ganou)

Screening in June

Blow It To Bits (On va tout péter)

Documentary, set in a factory. A musical with lyrics written by workers who have had enough.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Lech Kowalski)

Screening in June

Camagroga

Review preview for Camagroga

Amador shoots in an unhurried style, that requires a bit of patience from the viewer but is perfectly suited to the way of life.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
A portrait of the unique agricultural centre la Huerta de Valencia, where tiger nuts are grown and turned into the regional drink horchata.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2019; Director: Alfonso Amador; Writer: Alfonso Amador, Sergi Dies)

Full review

Screening in autumn 2020

Constructions (Konstrukcijas)

The story of the house of the famous Latvian translator and poet Uldis Berzins, his everyday life and his rebel son, together with translations, poems and his best friend, a KGB agent.

(Year: 2019; Director: Ilona Bruvere)

Screening in autumn 2020

Corporate Accountability (Responsabilidad Empresarial)

During the Argentinian dictatorship, local and international companies had an active role in preparing lists of workers to be abducted, supplying information for the military forces. Perel reveals the truth as he visits the companies today.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Jonathan Perel)

Screening in June

The Filmmaker's House

Review preview for The Filmmaker's House

In an overlap of documentary convention and semi-scripted faux-realism that offers a playful, frivolous edge to proceedings, even if the aim of its hybrid make-up isn’t always obvious, we have a defiant rejoinder to narrative and crime-led docs

Sunil Chauhan · 3 out of 5
When the Filmmaker is told his next film must be about crime, sex or celebrity to get funded, he takes matters into his own hands and begins shooting in his home with a cast of characters connected to his own life.

(Year: 2020; Director: Marc Isaacs)

Full review

Screening in autumn 2020

The Koro Of Bakoro: The Survivors Of Faso

The director returns to film one of the men he captured on camera before as children - now 29, to see the challenges he faces.

(Country: Burkina Faso, France; Year: 2017; Director: Simplice Ganou; Writer: Simplice Ganou)

Screening in June

Our Land, Our Altar (A Nossa Terra, o Nosso Altar)

The story of the Aleixo neighbourhood, inhabited by low income families and on the brink of being torn down.

(Country: Portugal; Year: 2020; Director: André Guiomar)

Screening in autumn 2020

Welcome To Chechnya

Review preview for Welcome To Chechnya

By pushing us into the day-to-day stress of the organisation, France gives a palpable sense of the desperation many of those fleeing feel.

Amber Wilkinson · 4.5 out of 5
This searing investigative work shadows a group of activists risking unimaginable peril to confront the ongoing anti-LGBTQ pogrom raging in the repressive and closed Russian republic.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: David France)

Full review

Screening in June

We're Still Here

London's housing is under attack. We're Still Here was filmed over four years as developers - hand in glove with councils and housing associations - knock down estates to build housing that ordinary people can't afford.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Melissa Herman)

Screening in June

We Have Boots

Consideration of the Umbrella Movement of 2014, also known as the Occupy Movement.

(Country: US, Hong Kong; Year: 2020; Director: Evans Chan)

Screening in June

Where's Edson? (Cadê Edson)

Documentary about The Homeless Workers Occupation movement in Brasilia.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2019; Director: Dácia Ibiapina da Silva)

Screening in autumn 2020

Your Mother's Comfort (Aconchego da tua Mãe)

With the impending election of an extreme-right wing president in Brazil, trans activist and politician Indianara Siqueira fights to defend the LGBT homeless shelter she founded called CasaNem.

(Country: US, Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Adam Golub)

Screening in June