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The festival will run from 6-11 June, opening with the UK premiere of Asif Kapadia's Diego Maradona. This year's country focus will be Japan.
View Films by Strand:
- Doc/Adventure
- Doc/Expose
- Doc/Love
- Doc/Rhythm
- Doc/Think
- Doc/Vision
- Focus/Shapes That Move
- New/Hits
- New/Japan
- New/Signals
- New/UK
View previous years coverage of the Sheffield DocFest festival:
Doc/Fest Latest Reviews
In a quiet Hungarian village, men gather to swill beer at the bar. Meanwhile the women are busy at work manufacturing something unexpected.
Story of five unfinished fiction films from Communist-era Afghanistan.
A dreamlike conversation with the past and the present, this film reimagines a more nuanced narrative of Latasha Harlins by excavating intimate memories shared by her cousin and best friend.
In Thailand, Pomm takes care of Europeans with Alzheimer’s. Separated from her children, she helps Elisabeth during the final stages of her life, as a new patient arrives from Switzerland.
When writer Bruce Chatwin was dying of AIDS, his friend Werner Herzog made a final visit. As a parting gift, Chatwin gave Herzog his rucksack. Thirty years later, Herzog sets out on his own journey, inspired by Chatwin’s passion for the nomadic life.
Charts a transgender man’s path to parenthood after he decides to carry his child himself. The pregnancy prompts an unexpected and profound reckoning with conventions of masculinity, self-definition and biology.
Following lives of three siblings in a refugee camp as their time their stretches from weeks to years.
An international look at the global housing crisis in our cities.
Portrait of Icelandic pioneer Snorri Magnusson, who has been patiently teaching babies to float and paddle for over 25 years.
Documentary about the lasting trauma of female genital mutilation and the filmmaker's reconstructive journey.
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