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Sheffield DocFest · 2021

Sheffield DocFest 2021

DocFest Exchange

Listed below are the features in this strand running at an hour or longer. The festival will also host a number of talks.

Programme

6 films · 4 reviews

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The Ants And The Grasshopper (The Ants & The Grasshopper)

Review preview for The Ants And The Grasshopper

It’s enjoyable to watch this edifying connection between people discovering how much they have in common.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
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.

(Country: Malawi; Year: 2021; Director: Raj Patel, Zak Piper)

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From The Wild Sea

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Petré does not use filters, showing the world as it is – starkly beautiful on the eve of disaster.

Mateusz Tarwacki · 4 out of 5
The director considers the critical relationship between humans and wild animals and the consequences of climate change.

(Country: Denmark; Year: 2021; Director: Robin Petré; Stars: Dan Jarvis)

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Gunda

Review preview for Gunda

The language captured here speaks volumes. The animals’ faces, their reactions and movements, remind doubters of their sentient nature in every shot.

Anne-Katrin Titze · 5 out of 5
Pigs, cows and chickens. Intimate portraits of living beings who wind up dead on a plate every day.

(Country: Norway, US; Year: 2020; Director: Victor Kossakovsky)

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Microcosmos (Le Peuple De L'herbe)

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The ordinary becomes exquisite and the extraordinary alien.

Angus Wolfe Murray · 5 out of 5
What creeps and crawls in a French meadow.

(Country: France/Switzerland/Italy; Year: 1996; Director: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou; Writer: Claude Nuridsany, Marie Pérennou)

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Symbiotic Earth

The life and ideas of Lynn Margulis, a brilliant and radical scientist, whose unconventional theories challenged the male-dominated scientific status quo and are today fundamentally changing how we look at ourselves, evolution, and the environment.

(Country: US, Norway, Spain, UK; Year: 2019; Director: John Feldman)

Who We Were

A cinematic essay - inspired by the book "who we were" by Roger Willemsen.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Marc Bauder; Writer: Marc Bauder; Stars: Manfred Zapatka, Sylvia Earle, Alexander Gerst, Janina Loh, Dennis J. Snower, Felwine Sarr, Matthieu Ricard)