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Sheffield DocFest · 2024

Sheffield DocFest 2024

Journeys

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10 films · 1 review

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Britain's Forgotten Prisoners

Documentary about prisoners incarcerated indefinitely under public protection laws.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Martin Read)

Her Name Was Moviola

Love letter to the Moviola editing machine.

(Country: UK; Year: 2024; Director: Howard Berry; Writer: Walter Murch; Stars: Mike Leigh, Marion Bailey, Karl Johnson, Walter Murch, Howard Berry, Dan Farrell)

Hollywoodgate

Documentary exploring oppression in Syria.

(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2023; Director: Ibrahim Nash'at)

Journey

The stories of five women who survived the horrors of civil war in Sri Lanka are transformed into performance art.

(Country: Sri Lanka; Year: 2024; Director: Visakesa Chandrasekaram)

Life Is Beautiful (Al Haya Helwa)

Documentary follows the filmmaker's own displacement in Norway after being able to return home to Gaza.

(Country: Norway, Palestinian Territories; Year: 2023; Director: Mohamed Jabaly; Writer: Mohamed Jabaly; Stars: Mohamed Jabaly)

Mountain Queen: The Summits of Lhakpa Sherpa

A single mother working as a dishwasher has another life as a record-breaking mountain climber and the first Nepali woman ever to reach the summit of Everest.

(Country: US; Year: 2023; Director: Lucy Walker; Stars: Lhakpa Sherpa)

My Sextortion Diary

A thriller documentary about how the filmmaker responded to a digital blackmail situation after her computer was stolen.

(Country: Spain; Year: 2024; Director: Patricia Franquesa; Writer: Patricia Franquesa; Stars: Patricia Franquesa)

Nocturnes

Review preview for Nocturnes

By night, Shreyank Nanjappa’s inspired sound design captures the furious beating of wings and, layered on top of them, the shuffling and chirrupping and all the curious calls of the moths as they rush in to land.

Jennie Kermode · 4 out of 5
In the dense forests of the Eastern Himalayas, moths are whispering something to us. In the dark of night, two curious observers shine a light on this secret universe.

(Country: US, India; Year: 2024; Director: Anirban Dutta, Anupama Srinivasan)

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Sapir

A portrait of the world’s first professional league transgender football referee, who finds herself at personal and professional crossroads.

(Country: Israel; Year: 2024; Director: Liran Atzmor; Writer: Liran Atzmor; Stars: Sapir Berman)

Simon And Marianne

An account of the last summer a couple spend together after one of them is diagnosed with a terminal illness.

(Country: Canada; Year: 2024; Director: Pier-Luc Latulippe, Martin Fournier)