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Sheffield DocFest · 2022

Sheffield DocFest 2022

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15 films · 3 reviews

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1341 Frames Of Love And War

Israeli photographer Micha Bar-Am recalls his journey from Berlin to Palestine, the birth of the state of Israel and its subsequent history.

(Country: Israel, US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Ran Tal; Writer: Ran Tal; Stars: Barak Bar-Am, Micha Bar-Am, Nimrod Bar-Am, Orna Bar-Am)

After The End Of The World

Considering Beirut in the 30 years since the civil war

(Country: Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Nadim Mishlawi)

All Man: The International Male Story

Review preview for All Man: The International Male Story

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

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after US mail-order catalogues of the Eighties and Nineties.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed; Writer: Peter Jones; Stars: Matt Bomer, Carson Kressley)

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Dear Jackie

Exploring the life of baseball player Jackie Robinson.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Henri Pardo; Writer: Henri Pardo; Stars: Ronald Jones, Ivan Livingstone, Majiza Philips, Jackie Robinson)

Exposing Muybridge

Biographical portrait of the photography pioneer.

(Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Marc Shaffer; Writer: Marc Shaffer; Stars: Gary Oldman, Luther Gerlach, Marta Braun, Richard Jackson Kushakaak, Heather Lake, Philip Brookman, Richard White, Rebecca Gowers, Tracy Storer, Thomas Gunning, Mark Klett, Tracey Stores, Leo Shaffer, Amy Werbel, Byron Wolfe)

The Fire Within: Requiem For Katia And Maurice Krafft

Exploring humans fascination with volcanoes using the archive of the vulcanologists.

(Country: France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, US; Year: 2022; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft)

Fragile Memory

A filmmaker explores his grandfather's cinematography history as the older man is suffering with Alzheimer's.

(Country: Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Ihor Ivanko; Writer: Ihor Ivanko, Mariia Ponomarova)

Goodbye, Captain (Adeus Capitao)

The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.

(Year: 2022; Director: Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Soares de Almeida)

Love, Deutschmarks And Death

Documentary about the music of Turkish guest workers who migrated to Germany.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Cem Kaya; Writer: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Cem Kaya; Stars: Alper Aga, Orhan Amuroglu, Imran Ayata, Ali Ekber Aydogan, Boe B., Ömer Boral, Ata Canani, Dede Deli, Ercan Demirel, Mustafa Deniz, Erci E., Rüstü Elmas, Hatay Engin, Ihsan Ergin, Yüksel Ergin)

The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons

Portrait of the African American artist.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Harold Crooks, Judd Tully; Writer: Harold Crooks)

Mutzenbacher

With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, Mutzenbacher, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.

(Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Ruth Beckermann; Writer: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp)

Nelly & Nadine

Review preview for Nelly & Nadine

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.

Amber Wilkinson · 4 out of 5
The story of two women who fell in love whilst imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp.

(Country: Sweden, Belgium, Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Magnus Gertten; Writer: Magnus Gertten)

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A Story Of Bones

Chronicles Annina van Neel's tireless work to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere; Stars: Peggy King Jorde, Annina Van Neel)

TS Eliot: Into The Waste Land

The hidden history behind the landmark poem.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Susanna White)