Film Programme

My Worst Enemy

Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.

Mehran Tamadon
2023
Film Programme

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Narratives ad hominem

We are honoured to screen the world premiere of Rakhshan Banietemad’s latest film.

Rakhshan Banietemad
2023
Film Programme

Narratives ad hominem + We are Half of Iran's Population

A screening of We Are Half of Iran's Population, preceded by the World Premiere of Rakhshan Banietemad's short film Narratives ad hominem.

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Short + Feature

No Winter Holidays

A poetic and intimate portrait of two lifelong rivals, who are forced to share an empty village during the dead of winter.

Rajan Kathet, Sunir Pandey
2023
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Not a Bedtime Story

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.

Lila Penagos
2023
Film Programme

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On The Line: The Richard Williams Story

A compelling story of determination and resilience against oppression, focussing on the man who raised Venus and Serena to change the course of tennis history.

Stuart McClave
2022
Film Programme

Opening Night: Tish

The Opening Night film of Sheffield DocFest 30th edition is the world premiere of Paul Sng's moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.

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Otto Baxter: Not A F***ing Horror Story

We follow Otto Baxter, a 35-year-old man with Down Syndrome, over six years, as he writes and directs a foul-mouthed, autobiographical comedy-horror-musical set in Victorian London.

Peter Beard, Bruce Fletcher, Otto Baxter
2023
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Our Times

After a seven-year hiatus from documentary filmmaking Rakhshan Banietemad set out to capture the hopes of a generation during the 2001 Iranian Presidential election.

Rakhshan Banietemad
2002
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Out Loud

With a cast of one hundred people making the street their home, a temporary community transforms a public square into a great stage.

Jonathas de Andrade
2023
Film Programme

Phantom Parrot

When a human rights activist, returning to the UK, has his electronic devices confiscated by border authorities, it highlights an unsettling programme of state surveillance.

Kate Stonehill
2023
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Phobos

With place as the main character, this film builds an ominous picture of a city constantly threatened by war, caught in a never-ending nightmare.

Mina Keshavarz
2023
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Piblokto

In an isolated village in the Arctic Circle, life is often brutal. Hunting walruses and whales, this community lives in close relation to death.

Anastasia Shubina, Timofey Glinin
2023
Film Programme

Praying for Armageddon

Tonje Hessen Schei’s film highlights the alarming political influence of American Evangelical Christians and their quest to bring on the Apocalypse.

Tonje Hessen Schei
2023
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Profession: Documentarist

Seven independent female filmmakers voice their concerns about their political, creative and personal lives in the context of the society they live in.

Shirin Barghnavard, Firouzeh Khosrovani, Farahnaz Sharifi, Mina Keshavarz, Sepideh Abtahi, Sahar Salahshoor, Nahid Rezaei
2014
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Q

Jude Chehab’s debut feature untangles her family’s connection to a Syrian religious order, making for a nuanced and tense exploration of matrilineal trauma.

Jude Chehab
2023
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Razing Liberty Square

As rising sea-levels threaten the city of Miami, one local black community fight to save their neighbourhood from property developers and climate gentrification.

Katja Esson
2023
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Red Herring

Diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, director Kit Vincent enlists his family for an intimate and darkly humorous journey to help them come to terms with his illness.

Kit Vincent
2023
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Regard Silence

A group of deaf people playfully explore the possibilities of Mexican Sign Language through theatre games and their own poetic creation.

Santiago Zermeño
2022
Film Programme

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RELAXED SCREENING: A Year In A Field

Relaxed Screening of A Year in the Field, BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris reflects upon human existence, its relationship to the environment and the urgent need for compassion and transformation.

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RELAXED SCREENING: Confessions of a Good Samaritan

Relaxed Screening of Confessions of a Good Samaritan where filmmaker Penny Lane’s decision to donate one of her kidneys to a complete stranger leads her on a journey to understand the nature of altruism.

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RELAXED SCREENING: Shorts

Relaxed Screening of three short films from our festival programme that explore poetry, childhood, imagination, nature, and gratitude.

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Shorts programme

Richland

The residents of a town built to house workers who produced the material used for the Nagasaki atomic bomb reflect on its troubled past.

Irene Lusztig
2023
Film Programme

Right to Fight

The story of three pioneering US sportswomen who, in the 1970s, attempted to break into the most macho sport of all: competitive boxing.

Georgina Cammalleri
2023
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See You Tomorrow Elina

Stories of Iran’s past and present intersect in Rakhshan Banietemad’s reflective, absorbing and personal portrait of how political life shapes infant’s lives.

Rakhshan Banietemad
2011
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