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Sheffield DocFest · 2021

Sheffield DocFest 2021

Rebellions

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11 films · 1 review

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The Annotated Field Guide of Ulysses S Grant

A musical fantasia about Ulysses S. Grant’s liberatory march through the southern United States.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Jim Finn; Writer: Jim Finn; Stars: Cosmina Mazza Finn, Franz Mazza Finn, Jim Finn, Cosmina Mazza Finn, Franz Mazza Finn, Jim Finn)

Courage

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There is something optimistic about joining this wave of humanity, from all walks of life, as they brandish flowers in the air and peacefully demonstrate against the regime.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
Documentary about the protests in Belarus.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2021; Director: Aliaksei Paluyan)

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Dear Elnaz (Elnaz Jan)

Javad Soleimani – whose wife, Elnaz Nabiyi, was killed aboard a flight shot down by the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps in Jan 2020 – is given space to reflect and share his anger.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2020; Director: Mania Akbari)

Fixed Barricade At Hamdalaye Crossing (Barrage d'arrêt fixe et fermé au niveau du carrefour Hamdalaye)

On September 28th 2009, in Conakry, Guinea, security forces massacred 157 people at the Stade du 28 Septembre, the city’s main sports stadium. In 2018, filmmaker Thomas Bauer met a group of frustrated plaintiffs who set up rehearsals for the staging of a hypothetical trial, using performance to piece together the case as an investigative aid, and an act of catharsis.

(Country: Guinea, France; Year: 2020; Director: Thomas Bauer; Writer: Thomas Bauer)

The Inheritance

A young man inherits his grandmother’s house and, with the encouragement of his girlfriend, turns it into a Black socialist collective where community forms the basis of family.

(Country: US; Year: 2020; Director: Ephraim Asili)

Just A Movement (Juste un mouvement)

In Senegal, Omar Blondin Diop’s name is associated with an unpunished state crime. In France, he is mostly remembered as the Marxist activist featured in La Chinoise, a fiction film of political anticipation by Jean-Luc Godard. Vincent Meessen’s political and poetic inquiry into Diop offers a meditation on the relationship between politics, justice, and memory.

(Country: Belgium, France; Year: 2021; Director: Vincent Meessen; Writer: Vincent Meessen; Stars: Bouba Diallo, Marie-Thérèse Diedhiou, Cheikh Hamalah Blondin Diop, Dialo Diop, Ousman Blondin Diop, Doudou Fall, Fi Lu, Alioune Paloma Sall, Felwine Sarr, Malal Almamy Tall)

The Monopoly of Violence (Un pays qui se tient sage)

Documentary about police violence in contemporary France.

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

Move: Confrontation In Philadelphia

Documentary about events of summer 1978 which led to the arrest of nine Move members who are still in jail today.

(Country: US; Year: 1980; Director: Jane Mancini, Karen Pomer; Writer: Dan Barshay, Jane Mancini, Karen Pomer; Stars: Chuckie Africa, Delbert Africa, Janet Africa, Janine Africa, Aqueelah Hanna Jamal, Edward Rendell, Frank Rizzo)

Narcissus Off Duty (Narciso em Férias)

Through a mix of storytelling, song, and the reading of documents, renowned musician Caetano Veloso gives testimony about his imprisonment from the military dictatorship in Brazil in 1968.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Ricardo Calil, Renato Terra; Stars: Caetano Veloso, Caetano Veloso)

Riverock (É Rocha e Rio, Negro Leo)

A documentary conversation with the musician, poet, sociologist and thinker Negro Leo.

(Country: Brazil; Year: 2020; Director: Paula Gaitán; Writer: Paula Gaitán)

The Silence Of The Mole (El Silencio del Topo)

In the 1970s, a journalist who called himself ‘The Mole’ infiltrated the bowels of Guatemala’s most repressive government in order to help the resistance, accessing information about political violence that the military government had been planning. Today, the search for this unusual character probes the cracks in the walls of silence that surround this country’s hidden history.

(Country: Mexico, Guatemala; Year: 2021; Director: Anaïs Taracena; Writer: Pedro G. García, Anaïs Taracena)