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Sheffield DocFest · 2023

Sheffield DocFest 2023

International First Feature Competition

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9 films · 1 review

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Between The Rains

Review preview for Between The Rains

There’s a lack of depth in general.

Amber Wilkinson · 3 out of 5
A coming-of-age documentary following a young member of a formerly nomadic northern Kenyan community as they deal with the environmental and psychological effects of climate change.

(Country: Kenya; Year: 2023; Director: Andrew H Brown, Moses Thuranira)

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International premiere

The Body Politic

Portrait of Brandon Scott, Baltimore’s youngest Black mayor, during his mayoral campaign and first year.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Gabriel Francis Paz Goodenough)

World premiere

Handle With Extreme Care

The daily life of a New York mortuary struggling to provide a resting place for the dead at the height of the Covid crisis.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Patrick Ginnetty, Bowie Alexander)

World premiere

In The Shadow Of Light

Life in a town dominated by a power plant and its constant hum.

(Country: Chile; Year: 2023; Director: Isabel Reyes, Ignacia Merino)

World premiere

Lonely Oaks (Vergiss Meyn Nicht)

Documents the troubled occupation of Germany´s Hambach Forest.

(Country: Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff)

International premiere

Not A Bedtime Story (Cuentos Para No Dormir)

Lila Penagos has fond childhood memories of her father telling her bedtime stories. She now asks him to tell her real stories about his past as a guerrilla fighter.

(Country: Ecuador; Year: 2023; Director: Lila Penagos)

World premiere

No Winter Holidays (Dhorpatan)

Documentary portrait of two lifelong rivals, who are forced to share an empty village during the dead of winter.

(Country: Nepal, South Korea, Romania; Year: 2023; Director: Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey)

World premiere

Q

The filmmaker explores her mother Hiba’s devotion to an all-female, secretive religious order in Syria.

(Country: Lebanon, United States; Year: 2023; Director: Jude Chehab)

International premiere

A Year In A Field

A year in the life of the Longstone, a natural relic in Cornwall.

(Country: UK; Year: 2023; Director: Christopher Morris)

World premiere