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Sheffield DocFest · 2025

Sheffield DocFest 2025

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Programme

4 films · 1 review

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Andre Is An Idiot

Andre, a brilliant idiot, is dying because he didn’t get a colonoscopy. His sobering diagnosis, complete irreverence, and insatiable curiosity, send him on an unexpected journey learning how to die happily and ridiculously without losing his sense of humour.

(Country: US; Year: 2024; Director: Anthony Benna)

Apocalypse In The Tropics

Examination of the rise of the far right in Brazil.

(Country: Brazil, US, Denmark; Year: 2024; Director: Petra Costa, Moara Passoni; Writer: Petra Costa, Alessandra Orofino, David Barker, Nels Bangerter, Tina Baz, Moara Passoni; Stars: Petra Costa, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva, Jair Bolsonaro, Silas Malafaia, Michelle Bolsonaro, Elizete Malafaia, Oscar Niemeyer)

The Librarians

As an unprecedented wave of book banning is sparked in Texas, Florida, and beyond, librarians under siege join forces as unlikely defenders fighting for intellectual freedom on the front lines of democracy.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Kim A Snyder)

Natchez

Review preview for Natchez

Cinemtographer Noah Collier deserves a lot of credit for keeping himself largely invisible so that people reveal themselves, while working with editor Pablo Proenza, Herbert smoothly brings together these facets so that a bigger picture begins to be formed.

Amber Wilkinson · 5 out of 5
A consideration of the American South’s unreconciled history through a Mississippi town that mixes antebellum tourism with a community deeply divided over its past.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Suzannah Herbert; Writer: Suzannah Herbert, Pablo Proenza)

Full review See: Interview with Suzannah Herbert about Natchez