Sheffield DocFest will run both a physical and online edition from June 4 to 13. It will open with Summer Of Soul (...Or, When The Revolution Could Not Be Televised) and close with The Story of Looking. This year's festival will feature 55 world premieres and its retrospective is Films Belong To Those Who Need Them - Fragments From The History Of Black British Cinema.

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The Ants And The Grasshopper
The Ants And The Grasshopper
Anita Chitaya has a gift: she can help bring abundant food from dead soil, she can make men fight for gender equality, and maybe she can end child hunger in her village. Now, to save her home in Malawi from extreme weather, she faces her greatest challenge: persuading Americans that climate change is real.
Courage
Courage
Documentary about the protests in Belarus.
Sing, Freetown
Sing, Freetown
Accomplished reporter Sorious Samura collaborates with an old friend on a play intended to celebrate Sierra Leone... and gets more than he bargained for along the way.
The Return: Life After ISIS
The Return: Life After ISIS
A documentary about women who left their countries to join ISIS and their fight for repatriation.
Charm Circle
Charm Circle
After uncovering a treasure trove of home videos documenting the moments of love, laughter, and musical expression that punctuated an otherwise tumultuous upbringing, filmmaker Nira Burstein returns to her childhood home – now crumbling from the inside out – to explore whether she and her two sisters can reconnect with her parents.
Rancho
Rancho
Prison portrait of a maximum-security jail in Argentina.
All Light, Everywhere
All Light, Everywhere
An exploration of the shared histories of cameras, weapons, policing and justice. As surveillance technologies become a fixture in everyday life, the film interrogates the complexity of an objective point of view, probing the biases inherent in both human perception and the lens.
Lift Like A Girl
Lift Like A Girl
In a dilapidated corner of Alexandria, an exceptional community of young female weightlifters is trained by the grumpy yet charismatic Captain Ramadan.
From The Wild Sea
From The Wild Sea
The director considers the critical relationship between humans and wild animals and the consequences of climate change.
My Name Is Pauli Murray
My Name Is Pauli Murray
Profile of the legal trailblazer.
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