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Sheffield DocFest · 2020

Sheffield DocFest 2020

Rhyme & Rhythm

Programme

16 films · 3 reviews

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Breaking Barriers - The Casteless Collective

Following The Casteless Collective - a protest music band from Chennai, South India - aiming to change systematic persecution through music.

(Country: India, Germany; Year: 2019; Director: Maja Meiners)

Screening in June

Brigitte

Review preview for Brigitte

The revelations may not be earth shattering on either side of the camera, but they are honest are delivered with the intimacy of a secret.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Portrait of photographer Brigitte Lacombe.

(Country: Italy, UK; Year: 2019; Director: Lynne Ramsay; Writer: Lynne Ramsay; Stars: Brigitte Lacombe, Marian Lacombe, Lynne Ramsay,)

Full review

Screening in June

Bring Down The Walls

Explores the prison industrial complex through the lens of house music and nightlife.

(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Phil Collins)

Screening in June

Faith And Branko (Faith i Branko)

Chronicles the relationship between musicians Faith and Branko over seven years. In 2011, Faith travels from England to Serbia to learn gypsy accordion. She meets Roma violinist Branko and despite language barriers, they fall in love through music.

(Country: UK, Serbia; Year: 2020; Director: Catherine Harte)

Screening in autumn 2020

The Go-Go's

As the first all-female band to play their instruments, write their songs and have a No. 1 album, The Go-Go's made history. Underpinned by candid testimonies, this film chronicles the meteoric rise to fame of a band born in the LA punk scene who became a pop phenomenon.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Alison Ellwood; Stars: Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin, Charlotte Caffey, Belinda Carlisle, Gina Schock, Kathy Valentine, Jane Wiedlin)

Screening in June

Keith Haring: Street Art Boy

The story of the artist and activist in his own words.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Ben Anthony)

Screening in June

King Rocker

Documentary goes in search of Robert Lloyd, best known for fronting cult bands The Prefects and The Nightingales, who has survived under the radar for over four decades.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Michael Cumming; Writer: Stewart Lee; Stars: Stewart Lee, Frank Skinner, Robert Lloyd, Robin Askwith, Stewart Lee, Frank Skinner, Robert Lloyd, Robin Askwith)

Screening in autumn 2020

Medium

Portrait of the pianist and artist Margarita Fernandez.

(Country: Argentina; Year: 2020; Director: Edgardo Cozarinsky; Writer: Edgardo Cozarinsky; Stars: Margarita Fernández, Margarita Fernández)

Screening in autumn 2020

Retrospective (Rétrospective)

The choreographer and director takes out 10 dances from his most significant shows and organises them among themselves in order to reconstruct the development of his "thinking about dance”.

(Country: France; Year: 2019; Director: Jérôme Bel)

Screening in autumn 2020

Schlingensief - A Voice That Shook The Silence (Schlingensief - In das Schweigen hineinschreien)

Documentary about the German filmmaker and performance artist.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2020; Director: Bettina Böhler; Writer: Bettina Böhler, Angelina Maccarone; Stars: Susanne Bredehöft, Margit Carstensen, Alfred Edel, Irm Hermann, Udo Kier, Dietrich Kuhlbrodt, Sophie Rois, Christoph Schlingensief, Helge Schneider, Bernhard Schütz, Tilda Swinton, Susanne Bredehöft, Margit Carstensen, Alfred Edel, Irm Hermann)

Screening in June

Shut Up Sona

Profile of Indian singer and leading #MeToo activist, Sona Mohapatra shot over three years.

(Country: India; Year: 2020; Director: Deepti Gupta)

Screening in June

Sisters With Transistors

Review preview for Sisters With Transistors

Stops you in your tracks and makes you look at things you thought you knew about through fresh eyes.

Jane Fae · 4 out of 5
The story of electronic music's unsung heroines.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Lisa Rovner)

Full review

Screening in autumn 2020

Southern Journey (Revisited)

Set against the incendiary backdrop of the 2018 midterm elections, the film retraces the route of an iconic song-collecting trip from the late 1950s – Alan Lomax’s so-called “Southern Journey”.

(Country: UK; Year: 2020; Director: Rob Curry, Tim Plester)

Screening in June

Universe

When Wallace Roney recovers "The Universe Compositions," an orchestral jazz suite written in 1968 and left unrecorded by his mentor Miles Davis, he inherits the missing link in the history of jazz and must confront his own demons in order to step out of his mentor's shadow.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Nick Capezzera, Sam Osborn; Stars: Wayne Shorter, Wallace Roney, Felipe Luciano, Vince Wilburn Jr., Phil Schaap, Wayne Shorter, Wallace Roney, Felipe Luciano, Vince Wilburn Jr., Phil Schaap)

Screening in June

The Vasulka Effect

Profile of the "grandparents of video art".

(Country: Iceland, Czech Republic; Year: 2019; Director: Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdóttir)

Screening in June

Welcome To A Bright White Limbo

Review preview for Welcome To A Bright White Limbo

Holmes' direction is as fluid as Doherty's movement, as her cinematographer Luca Truffarelli engages his camera in its own dance with Doherty, also capturing the reactions of those watching her at work.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
Profile of dancer/choreographer Oona Doherty and her show Hope Hunt And The Ascension Into Lazarus.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2019; Director: Cara Holmes; Writer: Cara Holmes; Stars: Oona Doherty)

Full review

Screening in autumn 2020