One filmmaker shares his experiment of pitching a project at Sheffield DocFest's MeetMarket, which connects artists with a variety of people who might be able to help them realise their dream.
By Katie Goh
The challenges and ethics of showing life in an active conflict zone were a key theme of the festival's 2022 edition.
By Katie Goh
My Childhood, My Country sees filmmaker Phil Grabsky and journalist Shoaib Sharifi capture a young man’s life.
By Thomas Flew
At this year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest, a trio of documentaries revisited the events of that fateful September day.
Three films at this year’s festival combined female-centred stories with inspiring acts of protest.
By Katie Goh
Steve McQueen and James Rogan’s three-part docuseries examines three pivotal events from 1981.
By Matt Turner
In Me and the Cult Leader, filmmaker and survivor Atsushi Sakahara confronts both his own trauma and that of a nation.
Bring Down the Walls suggests that the dance floor can provide liberation from oppressive judicial policies.
By Katie Goh
The musician-turned-filmmaker explores the history of the genre in her insightful debut, Romantic Comedy.
By Matt Turner
This year’s Sheffield Doc/Fest featured three profound tales of sporting triumph and tragedy.
By Katy Vans
Now more than ever, filmmakers are fighting to give a voice to the disaffected, the poor and the oppressed.
Our favourite documentaries from this year’s festival – all of which you should look out for.
By Matt Turner
At Sheffield Doc/Fest a trio of films reveal the horror and hope at the heart of the conflict.
The Hurt Locker meets An Inconvenient Truth in this vital new climate change documentary.
There’s notes of Orson Welles’ F for Fake in this richly intoxicating wine-based con caper.
By Katy Vans
Director Susanna Edwards captures the emotional complexity of a brutal sport in this intimate portrait of ‘the female Rocky’.
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