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Sheffield DocFest · 2024

Sheffield DocFest 2024

International Competition

Programme

8 films

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At the Door Of The House Who Will Come Knocking (Ko će pokucati na vrata mog doma)

Consideration of the life and environment of a man who lives in isolation.

(Country: Serbia, Bosnia and Herzegovina; Year: 2024; Director: Maja Novakovic; Writer: Maja Novakovic, Jonathan Hourigan; Stars: Emin Bektic, Andrej Bozilovic)

The Hexagonal Hive And A Mouse In A Maze

Consideration of what it means to learn.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Bartek Dziadosz, Tilda Swinton)

Klitschko: More than a Fight

Portrait of former heavyweight boxing world champion and current Mayor of Kyiv Vitali Klitschko.

(Country: Germany, UK; Year: 2024; Director: Kevin Macdonald; Stars: Wladimir Klitschko, Vitali Klitschko)

Light Darkness Light

Portrait of a blind Anglican priest who becomes one of the first recipients of a bionic eye.

(Country: US, UK, Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Landon Van Soest)

Mother City

In Cape Town a young man leads an urban revolution at the intersection of political and property power.

(Country: South Africa; Year: 2024; Director: Pearlie Joubert, Miki Redelinghuys)

Pavilion 6

As the Croatian population clamours for the vaccination against Covid-19, this film presents a portrait that offers some insight into a nation’s collective psyche.

(Country: Croatia; Year: 2024; Director: Goran Devic; Writer: Goran Devic)

Relentless Memory (Memoria Implacable)

An indigenous Mapuche activist and researcher unveils a multitude of atrocities committed against her ancestors, whose story has been silenced for over a century.

(Country: Argentina, Chile; Year: 2024; Director: Paula Rodríguez Sickert)

Stone Mountain

Portrait of residents in a small southern US town facing the contentious legacy of the world's largest Confederate monument, which looms over their home.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Daniel Newell Kaufman)