Sheffield DocFest — A–Z of films

8 Bar makes light work of sketching the conditions that shaped the music, betraying a canny understanding of the music industry’s politics, as well as the changing shape of music sales in the 00s.

There are a lot of interesting ideas swirling around in this film.

Like the best of these sorts of essay films, Huntt is intimate without being unnecessarily introspective.

Singer's documentary is more a tribute to his friends.

After we see the extent of the problem, the documentarian begins to illustrate that the illegal logging is not just one or two rogue operators but intricately connected with a political chain.

Lidén isn’t interested in rehashing controversies which it’s easy to explore elsewhere. Her interest is in William’s lived experience of what is happening to him.

Amy and Chloe’s odyssey, filmed by Daniel Götz, is an adventure tale, which includes a visit to the cutest llamas in Peru.

The film ends up becoming tonally unresolved, stuck a little awkwardly between heart-on-sleeve candour, humour and attempts at creating a rollicking, carefree air of cool knowingness.

Lawrence knows his film’s real strength lies in simply putting the man and his relatives fully back into the heart of this equation.

An important film.

Morgen infuses new life into Jane Goodall's groundbreaking wildlife study that took place over half a century ago.

If the aim was to ensure no fixed, easy portrait of Indian women emerges, Liz John is successful.

While it’s important to bring attention to the wider-spread government actions against the minority group, the film’s truly valuable observations are of how the prejudice impacts normal life.

In this kaleidoscope life, montage becomes an essential tool, illustrating not only the artist’s own work but his many influences, along with the immediate context in which he was living.

The love story is remarkable in its own right but the film also shows the way these sorts of histories could be hidden in plain sight.

Finds a strong propulsive narrative with an emotional core.

Even if you've never given parkour a second thought, Day will help you to see it through fresh eyes but, more importantly, to see the boys behind the bravado and the stunts, trying to make their way in the world just like everybody else.

There’s an inherent sadness to this, not least because this film is taking a much more sobering sweep than more frequently made films about jail time, which tend to end with exoneration or freedom, which Reyes notes from the start is not within this documentary’s gift.

The message is clear - the world needs to pay much closer attention to what is happening in Brazil, before it's too late.