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Sheffield DocFest · 2022

Sheffield DocFest 2022

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17 films · 3 reviews

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Alis

Teenagers in Colombia conjure up a classmate named Alis, who manifests their concerns and desire to break the cultural cycle of violence and hope for a brighter future.

(Country: Colombia, Chile, Romania; Year: 2022; Director: Nicolas van Hemelryck, Clare Weiskopf; Writer: Tatiana Andrade, Anne Fabini, Gustavo Vasco)

Beauty Of The Beast

Profile of female bodybuilders.

(Country: Hungary; Year: 2022; Director: Anna Nemes; Stars: Eszter Csonka, Eszter S. -Németh, Yvette Balla, Noémi Szabó)

A Bunch Of Amateurs

A group of ageing cinephiles attempt to save their film club.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Kim Hopkins; Writer: Kim Hopkins; Stars: Colin Egglestone, Harry Nicholls, Joe Ogden, Philip Wainman, Marie McCahery, Edmund Davies, Keith Wilcock, Ian Egglestone, Andrew Cockerill, Jeanette Wilson, David Marshall, Judith Simpson, Ian J. Simpson, Jim Walker)

Eat Your Catfish

Portrait of a woman with motor neurone disease.

(Country: Turkey, US, Spain; Year: 2021; Director: Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen)

Electric Malady

Review preview for Electric Malady

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.

Jennie Kermode · 4.5 out of 5
An intimate portrait of a chronically ill man who ascribes his symptoms to electromagnetic hypersensitivity syndrome.

(Country: UK; Year: 2021; Director: Marie Liden)

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Hafreiat

While labouring on an archaeological dig in Jordan, a father excavates his troubled past.

(Country: Jordan, Spain, Qatar; Year: 2022; Director: Alex Sardà)

Julie On Line

Shot over five years, the director follows her friend as she tries to reinvent her future and find a way to live with schizophrenia.

(Country: France; Year: 2021; Director: Mia Ma)

Man On Earth

A man with Parkinson's decides to end his own life via Death with Dignity laws in Washington State

(Country: Australia, US; Year: 2022; Director: Amiel Courtin-Wilson)

McEnroe

Famous "bad boy of tennis" John McEnroe tells his side of the story of his career.

(Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Barney Douglas; Writer: Barney Douglas; Stars: John McEnroe)

Midwives

Review preview for Midwives

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.

Jeremy Mathews · 4 out of 5
Two midwives work side-by-side in a makeshift clinic in Myanmar.

(Country: Canada, Germany, Myanmar; Year: 2022; Director: Hnin Ei Hlaing)

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New Pigs On The Block

Three pigs in a social community project.

(Country: Belgium; Year: 2022; Director: Jimmy Kets; Writer: Jimmy Kets)

North Circular

A journey along Dublin's North Circular road.

(Country: Ireland; Year: 2022; Director: Luke McManus; Writer: Luke McManus)

No Place For You In Our Town

Stepping into a football hooligan community in Bulgaria.

(Country: Bulgaria; Year: 2022; Director: Nikolay Stefanov; Writer: Ralitsa Golemanova, Mariana Sabeva, Nikolay Stefanov)

One Day At A Time

The work of a recovery based living centre.

(Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Paul Chambers)

One In A Million

Whitney is a rising star of the US gymnastics scene, who has a sizeable following on YouTube. Among them is Yara, who lives in Germany and is one of her biggest fans.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Joya Thome)

Sansón And Me (Sansón y Yo)

Review preview for Sansón And Me

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.

Amber Wilkinson · 3.5 out of 5
Documentary tracing a young immigrant’s path from coastal Mexico to a life sentence for murder in California.

(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2022; Director: Rodrigo Reyes; Stars: Antonio González Andrade, Miguel Andrade, Noé Andrade, Gerardo Reyes)

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Singing On The Rooftops

The life of a nonagenarian drag queen in Barcelona.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2022; Director: Enric Ribes; Writer: Isa Campo, Xènia Puiggrós, Enric Ribes; Stars: Gilda Love, Chloe Romero)