2018 Sheffield DocFest Festival Guide

Festival Guide

Films, Virtual Reality, Talks, Live Performances & More.

Welcome Liz McIntyre CEO & Festival Director

(Hello)

This year, the Festival is shining brightly with Northern stars such as Vicky McClure, Guy Martin, Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard (DOUBLETHINK p.35).

When Doc/Fest was born in 1994, the world was changing forever, ushering in a remarkable era of new power and influence: inventor Tim Berners-Lee made the world wide web freely available. Nelson Mandela was elected president of South Africa. The Cold War ended, and the Channel Tunnel connected Britain with Europe.

25 years on, a new wave of filmmakers is chronicling new power dynamics and the consequences of the past. The World Premieres of Alisa Kovalenko’s Home Games (p.52) and Maceo Frost’s Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (p.43), led by inspiring female protagonists, brilliantly challenge social norms through sport.

The compelling World Premieres of Inka Achte’s Boys Who Like Girls (p.60) and Joost van den Burg’s Bruce Lee & the Outlaw (p.39) show the vital role individuals play to bravely disrupt the status quo.

At Abbeydale Picture House, Tranny Fag (p.58) provokes us to consider gender in a non-binary way. And we abandon defining fellow human beings as ‘the other’ and find points of connection in Face to Face (Alternate Realities, p.87), experiencing life through the eyes of mother Michelle, whose life was changed forever by a gun accident.

2018 marks a period of reflection about the power we each hold or lack, resulting in new ways of seeing. We’re thrilled to open the festival with Yorkshire director Sean McAllister’s world premiere A Northern Soul (p.26), the story of underdog Steve – a factory worker by day and hip hop performer by night – battling through adversity to follow his dreams.

Welcome

Ey-up!

A big Sheffield welcome to the 25th Edition of Doc/Fest, with six days of festival celebrations across the city. Come and experience the world’s best stories in Films and Live Events, Virtual Reality and Interactive Storytelling and Talks.

I can’t wait to see you at City Hall for Opening Night.

Liz McIntyre

CEO & Festival Director

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Contents

Welcome Magid Magid Lord Mayor of Sheffield

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Festival Info

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Schedule

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As Lord Mayor of this wonderful city I get the privilege of being involved in an array of events, but there really isn’t any event that makes me more excited and proud than Doc/Fest. For one week, we see the city of Sheffield come together to showcase all things documentary and welcome guests from across the globe.

Opening the Festival this year for its 25th Edition is a great honour.

I believe this year’s programme is Doc/Fest’s boldest one so far and is successful in encapsulating the hopes and problems we face in the world today whilst challenging perceptions through the art of storytelling.

Two films that stand out for me this year are Søren Steen Jespersen & Nasib Farah’s Lost Warrior (p.47), the story of a separated family, focusing on the importance of community cohesion in face of isolation and radicalisation.

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The other being Alexandria Bombach’s On Her Shoulders (p.47) which tells the story of a courageous young woman who becomes a spokesperson for her community on a mission to speak out about the injustices she and her people face.

For any Sir David Attenborough fans I’d recommend the incredible Alternate Realities project Hold the World (p.87), a one on one encounter with a digital version of David Attenborough that guides you through astonishing natural history specimens.

And finally, I’m really looking forward to the talk by the very talented entrepreneur Jamal Edwards (p.104). In addition to talking about his influential career, he will also be discussing his new documentary focusing on breaking the stigmas surrounding mental health.

I hope you enjoy the Festival and I look forward to seeing as many of you as possible there.

Magid Magid

Lord Mayor of Sheffield

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Films

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Talks & Sessions

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Alternate Realities

Contents

Welcome

There are many things that make me proud of Sheffield – it is the first City of Sanctuary in the UK and the city that welcomed me and my family when we arrived from Somalia, it’s radical political history which birthed the likes of Mary Anne Rawson and the UK’s first women’s suffrage society and finally, the breadth of creativity that pours from every corner of it.

Access at the Festival

117 Marketplace & Talent 121 Parties & Social

127 Funders, Sponsors & Partners

128 Index 130 Map

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Festival Info Box Office Information

Film screening tickets are priced £10/£8 concession (full time students, senior citizens, claimants and carers), or £5 for off-peak screenings before 1pm on weekdays, unless otherwise stated. Talks (p.95) and Special Events (p.25) are priced individually. All ticket prices are inclusive of booking fee. Want to attend a number of films? The Doc/Lover Wristband gives you entry to up to 12 film screenings during the Festival for just £67.50 (£58.50 concessions).

The only way to access all that Doc/Fest has to offer is through a Festival Pass – experience the Film programme, Alternate Realities programme, Talks & Sessions, Marketplace & Talent, Doc/Player and all social events and networking.

In the hour preceding the event start time, tickets can only be purchased in person at the venue.

If you have a Festival Pass, you can select e-tickets for film screenings from the comfort of your own laptop or phone. To select, log into your My Doc/Fest account on www.sheffdocfest.com, find the film screening you want to attend and add an e-ticket to your basket. Your e-ticket will automatically be uploaded to your Festival Pass. Paper tickets will not be issued. You can also select e-tickets for screenings by visiting the Festival Box Office on Tudor Square. If a screening is sold out you may still be able to gain access by joining the standby queue at the venue.

Please be in your seat five minutes before the advertised start time for your ticket/e-ticket to be valid. If you are not in your seat five minutes before the advertised start time, your ticket or e-ticket may be re-allocated and you may be asked to join the standby queue.

Showroom Box Office, 15 Paternoster Row, Sheffield, S1 2BX: Open 11:30–22:00 daily.

Code of Conduct

Sheffield Doc/Fest operates a zero-tolerance policy on all forms of harassment or discrimination against any person at any of our events. By attending our events you agree to abide by our code of conduct.

Doc/Fest may, at its discretion, expel anyone found to be behaving unacceptably, without warning or refund, and if appropriate will involve the police.

For further info, go to www.sheffdocfest.com/view/codeofconduct If you observe or experience a violation of our code of conduct, please contact a member of Doc/Fest staff, security personnel, or email conduct@sidf.co.uk All violations of the law should be reported to the Police; in an emergency please telephone 999 or 112 from a mobile. If you are D/deaf, deafened, hard of hearing or have a speech impairment and need to report something, text 18000 For free and confidential help from Sheffield Rape Crisis, visit www.sheffieldrapecrisis.org.uk or telephone 0808 802 0013

Sheffield Doc/Fest Box Office based on Tudor Square, S1 2LA: Open 09:00–21:00, 7–12 June, daily.

Entry to Exhibitions & Installations

The Alternate Realities Exhibition is free and open to all, however some projects require booking to reserve a slot. To see a virtual or augmented reality project as part of The World Unknown to You (p.86), please go to the booking station downstairs at Trafalgar Warehouse. To watch a curated 360º playlist as part of Better Known Truths (p.91), please go to the booking station on the first floor at Trafalgar Warehouse. Please ensure you arrive 5 minutes early for your slot, otherwise it may be given to those waiting in line.

The Moment (p.77) (on Howard Street), DOUBLETHINK (p.33) and Portal (p.34) (as part of Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space) run regularly throughout the day. Go directly to each location to check availability and reserve a timed slot.

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Audience Award

The Fine Print

The Doc Audience Award is supported by Curzon.

Please note that all films marked [S] for subtitled are done so at the disgression of the filmmaker.

The Festival cannot guarantee standard.

A number of the films and Alternate Realities projects are up for Awards – and our biggest Jury is you, the audience! To rate the films and projects you see for the Audience Awards, please look out for volunteers with tear slips.

Alternate Realities Audience Award is supported

by REWIND.

Support for Those with Babies & Children

Sheffield Doc/Fest is a breastfeeding friendly event, and those with babies should feel welcome to breastfeed at Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space, along with all our participating venues.

Sheffield Doc/Fest has partnered with TLC Mobile Childcare to offer childcare services that come to you. To discuss, email Ellie at hospitality@sidf.co.uk or call us on +44 (0) 114 276 5141 We have also partnered with the Showroom Cinema to programme its regular Kino Bambino screening on Monday 11 June (p.62).

Festival Info

Festival Info

All are available to purchase online at www.sheffdocfest.com. A Festival Pass can be purchased from the Sky Arts Delegate Centre at Novotel. Individual tickets and Doc/Lover Wristbands can also be purchased in person from the Showroom Cinema, and, during the Festival, the Box Office on Tudor Square:

Festival Info

Due to the nature of the Festival, some films may not have an age rating at the time of going to print.

In these cases, films will be listed as Rating TBC (Rated: 18 until otherwise listed). Please check our website for up to date ratings.

All information is correct at time of printing.

Sheffield Doc/Fest and the organisers reserve the right to make changes and updates.

Please visit www.sheffdocfest.com for current schedules and listings.

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Festival Info

Festival Info

Access at the Festival

For accessible content, look for the following symbols:

Sheffield Doc/Fest is committed to providing a positive and inclusive experience for all, including those with disabilities and other access requirements.

For information on all our venues, including details of blue badge parking, wheelchair accessibility, wheelchair spaces, accessible toilets, and hearing loops, please visit: sheffdocfest.com/view/festivalvenues

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Subtitled (foreign language) films

[DF] Dialogue free films

Hearing loops and headphones are available at the Showroom Cinema and Curzon Cinema.

For a complete list of accessible screenings and talks, or to download a digital version of this Festival Guide that can be enlarged, please go to sheffdocfest.com/view/accessibility

Festival Info

Festival Info

Complimentary tickets and Festival Passes are available for Personal Assistants, Carers or sign language interpreters, but must be booked in advance, and proof of DLA or a valid CEA card or international equivalent is required. Please note that wheelchair spaces are subject to availability.

[S]

British Sign Language interpreted talks and sessions

For all enquiries relating to accessibility and reasonable adjustments, please email access@sidf.co.uk or call +44 (0) 330 122 8870 Alternatively, speak to a member of the team at the Festival Box Office.

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13:00

14:00

15:00

Showroom Cinema 1

Generation Wealth + Q&A p.56

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

Early Doors Presents: Love Means Zero + Intro p.41

Female Human Animal + Q&A p.67

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Our New President + Q&A p.63

Room for a Man p.72

Panoptic + Q&A p.72

Counting Tiles p.71

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

The Congo Tribunal p.45 Gun No. 6 + Q&A p.74 McQueen + Q&A p.68

Without Brutality: 25 Years of the Art and Design Research Centre p.65

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

22:00

Ashore + Q&A p.51

Trafalgar Warehouse – Ground Floor

Exchange on Tudor Square

The World Unknown to You p.86

Alternate Realities Preview Drinks p.122 Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

Trafalgar Warehouse – First Floor

Trafalgar Warehouse – First Floor

Better Known Truths p.91

p.122

Howard Street

Howard Street

The Moment p.77

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom

Opening Night Drinks p.122

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Sheffield City Hall Oval Room

Opening Night Film: A Northern Soul p.50

Alternate Realities

01:00

Trafalgar Warehouse – Ground Floor

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange Portal p.34

Films

00:00

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange on Tudor Square

DOUBLETHINK p.33

Events

23:00

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Head Space Shorts p.34

Key

Schedule Thursday 07 June

Industry Co-Work Space

Industry Co-Work Space

Doc/Player Lounge

Sheffield City Hall Oval Room

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21:00

Showroom Cinema 1

12:00

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

11:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

10:00

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

09:00

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom

Schedule Thursday 07 June

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

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The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid + Q&A p.41 Victory Day p.70

18:00

A Thousand Girls Like Me + Q&A p.44

Vienna Calling + Q&A p.43 Against the Tides + Q&A p.73

19:00

20:00

21:00 Watching the Detectives (p.49) + Fake News Fairytale (p.46) + Q&A

The Man Who Stole Banksy + Q&A p.41

Before Father Gets Back + Q&A p.39

The Distant Barking of Dogs + Q&A p.46

Home Games + Q&A p.52

Shakedown + Q&A p.57

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes + Q&A p.56

Desolation Center + Thurston Moore Live Performance p.27

Into The Okavango + Q&A p.41

The Light Cinema 8

Obscuro Barocco + Q&A p.69

The Light Cinema 3

Turning 18 + Q&A p.53

A Woman Captured + Q&A p.45

The Light Cinema 6

The Light Cinema 6

Lovers of the Night + Short + Q&A p.52

Doc/Dispatch p.44

Black Mother + Short + Q&A p.66

Reeps One: We Speak Music Live p.27

Industry Co-Work Space

The Task + Q&A p.70 Infinite Football p.63

Exchange on Tudor Square

DOUBLETHINK p.33

Igloo Vision Reception p.122

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers p.34

p.34

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Awe Filled Vision of The World

Exchange on Tudor Square

Industry Co-Work Space

Doc/Player Lounge

Exchange Breakfast Reception p.122

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange Portal p.34

Trafalgar Warehouse

Ground Floor: The World Unknown to You p.86

Trafalgar Warehouse

01:00

The Light Cinema 8

Ex-Shaman + Q&A p.62

00:00

Docs Till Dawn: La Commune (Paris, 1871) (Ends at 01:55) p.68

The Insufferable Groo + Q&A p.40

The Dread + Q&A p.61

Schedule Friday 08 June

23:00

Bruce Lee & The Outlaw + Q&A p.39

Of Fathers and Sons p.47

Generation Wealth + Q&A p.56

22:00

The Gospel of Eureka + Q&A p.62

The Light Cinema 3

When Lambs Become Lions + Q&A p.65

17:00

Showroom Cinema 1

Electric Avenues Shorts 1 p.75

16:00

Too Beautiful: Our Right To Fight + Extended Q&A p.43

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

Amal + Q&A p.50

15:00

Odeon Cinema 3

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

The Cleaners p.61

14:00

Odeon Cinema 3

Have You Seen the Listers? p.52

13:00

Abbeydale Picture House

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns p.60

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Showroom Cinema 1

Counting Tiles p.71

12:00

Abbeydale Picture House

11:00

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

10:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

09:00

Bertha Dochouse Showroom Cinema 4

Schedule Friday 08 June

First Floor: Better Known Truths p.91 Audience Participation and Tech

Meet the Artists of Doc/Fest 2018

Other

Howard Street The Moment p.77

Winter Garden University of Stirling Factual TV Drinks p.122

Other

Curzon Rooftop Live Cinema Summit Drinks p.122

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Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Key

Events

Films

Tamper Seller’s Wheel Too Beautiful World Premiere Drinks: Cuban Evening p.122

The Holt Film Hub North Drinks Reception p.122

Alternate Realities

Talks & Sessions

Other

Eventise!

Experiential Events

Theatre Deli Party Like it’s 1994 (ends at 02:00) p.123

Marketplace

Other

Archive and Live Scores

Netflix Crucible Studio

Netflix Crucible Studio

Live Cinema Summit p.96–97

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Abbeydale Picture House Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange Portal p.34

Trafalgar Warehouse

Ground Floor: The World Unknown to You p.86

The Dread p.61

Animated Documentary – Frame by Frame

Craft Summit Drinks presented

by Documentary Campus p.123

Birdhouse Meet The Filmmakers Drinks

Winter Garden Scottish Delegation Drinks p.123

The Hubs Why VR Workshop | Presented by Google Cutlers’ Hall – Hadfield Hall BFI Doc Society Fund: Meet the Team! p.123

Talks & Sessions

Sheffield Central Library Launch Screening for the AVA Library Project

Marketplace

Showroom Cinema 1 The Light Cinema 3

Theatre Deli

The Leadmill supported by Molinare Threads: Redux p.123 p.28

Howard Street The Moment p.77

Other

Odeon Cinema 3 Exchange on Tudor Square

Why We Film – Sound Design – Directors and Their The Art of Noise Story Choices

The Leadmill Nature’s Nickelodeons p.28

Alternate Realities

Trafalgar Warehouse Crucible Adelphi

Expanded and Live – Audiovisual Performance

Industry Co-Work Space Doc/Player Lounge

Other

BAFTA Masterclass: Matthew Heineman p.102

4:3 X Boiler Room Present: Shakedown Afterparty (ends at 02:00) p.124 DINA WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse (ends at 02:00) p.124

The Holt Canon Drinks Reception p.123

p.77

Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Talks & Sessions

Other

Crucible Adelphi ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

The Colourist – Making a Grade Great

Music Docs: New Forms & Platforms p.102

Netflix Crucible Studio

Munroe Bergdorf: Women,Gender & Activism p.102

Craft Summit p.98–99 Documentary Focus on CinemaSubjects - How tography – New Close Do You Go? Ways of Seeing?

Other

Curzon Cinema 1

Tranny Fag + Performance p.30

First Floor: The Dark Room p.29

Live Cinema Summit p.96–97 Round Tables – Round Tables – Concepts and Funding and Ideas Exhibition

Films

Minding The Gap + Q&A p.53

Milford Graves Full Mantis p.57

p.58

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Netflix Crucible Studio

My Big Break p.102

Events

Harmony + Q&A p.56

Silvana + Q&A p.58

First Floor: Better Known Truths p.91

Key

Over The Limit + Short + Q&A p.42

Under The Wire + Q&A p.48

Mind Games, Comedy Quiz p.34

Docs Till Dawn: They Call Her Cleopatra Wong (Ends at 01:15)

01:00

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square Exchange on Tudor Square

DOUBLETHINK p.33

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Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and George Mackay talk DOUBLETHINK and more p.34

Social Chain’s We Speak Music docuseries Dominic + Q&A with Reeps One McGregor in conversation p.34 p.34

00:00

Shirkers with Live Performance from Weish p.29

Ashore + Q&A p.51

Parallel Planes + Short p.57

23:00

Boys Who Like Girls + Q&A p.60

p.67

Doc/Expose Shorts + Q&A p.44 New/UK Shorts + Q&A p.73

Schedule Saturday 09 June

Time Trial + Q&A p.43

The Silence of Others + Extended Q&A p.48

Está Todo Bien + Q&A p.61

22:00

Out + Q&A p.53

Hale County This Morning, This Evening + Extended Q&A

The Eyes of Orson Welles + Short + Extended Q&A p.51

Exchange Breakfast Reception p.123

21:00

Commander Arian + Q&A p.45

I, Dolours + Q&A p.46

The Trial + Q&A p.64

20:00

Other

Music When The Lights Go Out + Q&A p.69

German Class + Q&A p.62

América + Q&A p.51

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns p.60

19:00

Antigone p.55

Three Identical Strangers + Q&A p.42

Laila at The Bridge + Q&A p.47

Room For A Man p.72

18:00

Abbeydale Picture House

Turning 18 + Q&A p.53

What is Democracy? + Q&A p.64

Gun No. 6 + Q&A p.74

17:00

Central Bus Station + Q&A p.40

When the War Comes + Q&A p.49

Ex-Shaman + Q&A p.62

16:00

Other

Showroom Cinema 1

15:00

The Trade + Q&A p.48

Home Games p.52

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

14:00

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

13:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

12:00

Turtle Rock + Q&A p.70

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Curzon Cinema 1

11:00

Odeon Cinema 3

The Light Cinema 3

10:00

Bertha Dochouse Showroom Cinema 4

09:00

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Schedule Saturday 09 June

Marketplace

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Wild Relatives p.72

Shakedown + Q&A p.57

Abbeydale Picture House

The Cleaners p.61 The Proposal + Q&A p.63

Yellow Is Forbidden p.59

The Waldheim Waltz + Q&A p.64 When Lambs Become Lions + Q&A p.65

Ashes and Embers + Q&A p.55

Schedule Sunday 10 June

The Game + Short + Q&A p.40

Harmony + Q&A p.56

Margaret Tait: A Century + Intro p.68

On Her Shoulders + Q&A p.47

Central Airport THF + Q&A p.61

This One’s For The Ladies + Q&A p.58

Tanzania Transit with uSiSTA Live pop-up p.30

Phantom Cowboys + Q&A p.42 Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin + Q&A p.70 Punk Voyage p.57

DOUBLETHINK p.33 Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health p.34

On the Ground at Grenfell + Q&A p.35

The Mighty Redcar + Q&A p.35

Silvana p.35

Sales and Distribution Summit p.100–101

Sales & Case Study: Distribution 101 Unrest

Distribution for VR

Meet the Sales Agents

Meet the Distributors

Trafalgar Warehouse

Marketplace & Talent Drinks p.124

Cutlers’ Hall Hadfield Hall

Korean Pitching Day p.105

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Not Another Diversity Panel! p.104

ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

A Story on Every Corner: Images of America Today p.105

Whose Story?

Authentic Voices in Storytelling p.103

An Evening with MarkCousins: 30 Images in the Dark p.105

The World Unknown Making a New Reality To You – Considering Creative

Documenting Grenfell: a Problem in Plain Sight? p.104

Cutlers’ Hall Hadfield Hall Other

Industry Co-Work Space Doc/Player Lounge

Curzon Rooftop South African Delegation Drinks p.124

Other

Howard Street Crucible Adelphi The Moment Critics Forum: The Art of Writing p.77 About Non-Fiction Film p.103

Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Crucible Adelphi Khalik Allah: Exploring a New Film Language p.104

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Tamper Seller’s Wheel British Council Drinks Reception p.125

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom Black Mother with Live Score from Gaika p.31

Winter Garden Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks p.125

Crucible Adelphi New Devices - New Voices: Pan-African Experiences p.105

Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

The Leadmill Gaika Party (ends at 02:00) p.125

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Other

Cutlers’ Hall Old Banqueting Hall

Sky Arts Lounge

Other

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Incredible Artist Playable Spotlight Gabo Arora

ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Netflix Crucible Studio

Authenticity And Diversity

Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Accelerator Lab Pitch p.103

América + Q&A p.35 Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks supported by Immerse UK p.125

Alternate Realities Summit p.84–85 Better Known Truths – Considering Creative

01:00

Netflix Crucible Studio

Claire Simon in conversation p.34

First Floor: Better Known Truths p.91 Stories Are Changing

00:00

Showroom Cinema 1

23:00

Of Fathers and Sons p.47

For the Birds + Q&A p.51

Amal + Q&A p.50

22:00

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange on Tudor Square Exchange Dome on Tudor Square Trafalgar Warehouse

Ground Floor: The World Unknown to You p.86

21:00

A Thousand Girls Like Me + Q&A p.44

Desolation Center + Q&A p.56

Last Year in Utopia + Q&A p.68

Exchange Breakfast Reception p.124

Cutlers’ Hall Old Banqueting Hall

Lost Warrior + Q&A p.47

Young Solitude + Q&A p.54

Before Father Gets Back + Q&A p.39

20:00

Curzon Cinema 1

No Greater Law + Q&A p.74

19:00

Doc/Think Shorts + Q&A p.60

Arboretum Cycle p.66

Exchange Portal p.34

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18:00

The Light Cinema 3

Flow + Q&A p.62

The Distant Barking of Dogs + Q&A p.46

17:00

Whispering Truth to Power + Q&A p.49

Doc/Rhythm Shorts + Q&A p.55

People’s Republic of Desire p.53

16:00

Odeon Cinema 3

The Pain of Others p.63

15:00

Abbeydale Picture House

14:00

Lovers of the Night + Short p.52

Kinshasa Makambo + Q&A p.46

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

13:00

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

Showroom Cinema 1

The Eyes of Orson Welles + Short + Q&A p.51

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Curzon Cinema 1

12:00

Odeon Cinema 3

The Light Cinema 3

11:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

10:00

Bertha Dochouse Showroom Cinema 4

09:00

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Schedule Sunday 10 June

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Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Exchange Breakfast Reception p.125

Ground Floor: The World Unknown to You p.86

Tranny Fag p.58

Game Girls + Q&A p.52

Electric Avenues Shorts 2 p.75

Turtle Rock + Q&A p.70

Hale County, This Morning, This Evening + Q&A p.67

Female Human Animal + Q&A p.67

Doel + Short + Q&A p.67

Doc/Vision Shorts + Q&A p.66

The Task + Extended Q&A p.70

Milford Graves Full Mantis + Q&A p.57

Alastair Campbell in conversation p.35

Time Trial + Q&A p.35

Brian Reed and Richard Miron in conversation p.35

Young Solitude p.35

The Incredible Playable Show p.31

Poverty in the UK: New Approaches to Storytelling p.107

Collaborating with Canada: Creating, Commissioning and Funding p.108

Inside UKTV: Meet the Commissioners p.109

University of Sheffield presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea p.107 The Naked Me: Personal Stories p.107

Goodness Gracious Me: Asian Representation from Grannies to Jihadis? p.109

Tamper Seller’s Wheel UKTV Drinks Reception p.125

Industry Co-Work Space Doc/Player Lounge

Sheffield City Hall The Channel 4 Interview: Guy Martin p.109

Cutler’s Hall Main Hall MeetMarket (p.118) and Alternate Realities Market (p.118) Cutler’s Hall Reception Room Marketplace Switchboard & Surgeries

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Key

Events

Films

Showroom Cinema 1 Other

Other

Howard Street The Moment p.77

Key

Winter Garden Foundry Irish Delegation Channel 4 Party (ends at 02:00) Reception p.126 p.126

Curzon Rooftop New Talent Drinks presented by University of Hertfordshire p.125

Curzon Cinema 2 Rising Directors Scheme Showcase

The Holt ITV Drinks p.125

Alternate Realities

Other

Other

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch p.108 Onwards and Upwards: The Future of Documentary Shorts p.108

Sky Arts Lounge at Cutler’s Hall

Vicky McClure: Dementia & Music p.110

Crucible Adelphi

Channel 4 First Cut Pitch p.109

Netflix Crucible Studio

Art 50: Art in a Post Brexit Britain with Kirsty Wark p.108

ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment p.106

The ITV Interview: Sir Trevor p.107 McDonald

ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Netflix Crucible Studio Crucible Adelphi ITV Town Hall Reception Room A ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

First Floor: Better Known Truths p.91

The Real Stories Special Relationship Pitch p.106

Trafalgar Warehouse

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers p.35

Freedom to Play: Pros &Cons of Filmmaking as Research p.106

Other

Shirkers + Q&A p.69

DOUBLETHINK p.33

Best of Times, Worst of Times: The Future of Feature Documentaries p.106

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Ghosthunter + Q&A p.40

Other

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange Portal p.34

Trafalgar Warehouse

Sleep Has Her House + Q&A p.69

The Ballymurphy Precedent + Q&A p.45

Exchange on Tudor Square

On Her Shoulders + Q&A p.47

Esta Todo Bien + Q&A p.61

A Woman Captured + Q&A p.45

01:00

Curzon Cinema 1

The Proposal + Q&A p.63

Doc/Love Shorts + Q&A p.50

00:00

The Light Cinema 3

Lost Warrior + Q&A p.47

Central Airport THF + Q&A p.61

Schedule Monday 11 June

23:00

Laila at The Bridge + Q&A p.47

Infinite Football p.63

Obscuro Barocco + Q&A p.69

22:00

Rough/Ready p.74

I, Dolours + Q&A p.46

Ashes and Embers + Q&A p.55

The Congo Tribunal p.45

21:00

Grenfell + Q&A p.73

People’s Republic of Desire p.53

Panoptic + Q&A p.72

20:00

Whispering Truth to Power + Q&A p.49

The Waldheim Waltz + Q&A p.64

Disorder p.76

Horse of Mud / Sad Song of Touha / The Sandwich p.76

Antigone p.55

19:00

The Silence of Others + Q&A p.48

German Class + Q&A p.62

Wild Relatives p.72

18:00

The Light Cinema 6

Over The Limit + Short + Q&A p.42

17:00

The Light Cinema 8

Love Means Zero p.41

16:00

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

15:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

14:00

Bertha Dochouse Showroom Cinema 4

13:00

Kino Bambino: Flow p.62

Commander Arian + Q&A p.45

Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

12:00

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid p.41

Curzon Cinema 1 The Light Cinema 3

11:00

Under The Wire + Q&A p.48

The Light Cinema 8

The Light Cinema 6

10:00

Against the Tides + Q&A p.73

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

Showroom Cinema 1

09:00

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Schedule Monday 11 June

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

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Ground Floor: The World Unknown to You p.86

The Drift + In The Ruins of Baalbeck Studios + Q&A p.71

This One’s For The Ladies + Q&A p.58

Game Girls + Q&A p.52

Boys Who Like Girls + Q&A p.60

Vienna Calling + Q&A p.43

The Man Who Stole Banksy + Q&A p.41

Minding The Gap p.53

Head Space VR p.35

The Pain of Others p.35

Ghosthunter + Q&A p.35

Inside National Geographic: Meet the Commissioners p.112

The Boiler Room Pitch p.112

p.113

The Whickers Pitch p.112 Battle of the Boxsets p.113

SOS Planet Earth: Ways for Docs to Save the World p.111

Original Documentaries Preview with Channel 5

Commissioning: Arts p.113

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom The BBC Interview: Mary Beard p.114

Industry Co-Work Space Doc/Player Lounge

Cutler’s Hall Reception Room Marketplace Switchboard & Surgeries

Films

Alternate Realities

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

Plug Closing Night Party: Guilty Pleasures (ends at 02:00) p.126

Tamper Seller’s Wheel BBC Arts Drinks p.126

Cutler’s Hall Main Hall MeetMarket (p.118) and Alternate Realities Market (p.118)

Events

Sheffield City Hall Ballroom Awards Ceremony p.126

Key

Events

Films

Alternate Realities

Showroom Cinema 1 Other

Other

Howard Street The Moment p.77

Other

Cutlers’ Hall Old Banqueting Hall

Sky Arts Lounge

Key

Curzon Cinema 1 Crucible Adelphi

The Doc Makers Guide to Real Britain p.111

Doc/Question Time: Big Data, Dark PR & Whistleblowing p.113

Netflix Crucible Studio

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast p.112

IT Town Hall Reception Room A

IT Town Hall Reception Room B

Breaking Into Prisons p.110

Commissioning: Factual Entertainment p.111

IT Town Hall Reception Room B

Netflix Crucible Studio Crucible Adelphi IT Town Hall Reception Room A

BBC Northern Docs Pitch p.110

Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 Trafalgar Warehouse

Mim Shaikh (1Xtra) and Karen Gabay in conversation p.35

First Floor: Better Known Truths p.91

Algorithms & Discovery: Are Bots the Next Content Curators? p.110

The Light Cinema 3

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes p.56

DOUBLETHINK p.33

Commissioning: Specialist Factual p.111

Cutlers’ Hall Old Banqueting Hall

Last Year in Utopia + Q&A p.68

Audience Award Winner

01:00

Exchange on Tudor Square

Exchange on Tudor Square Exchange Dome on Tudor Square Trafalgar Warehouse

Our New President p.63

Doc/Adventure Shorts + Q&A p.39

00:00

Special Anniversary Screening: Grenfell + Extended Q&A p.73

Parallel Planes p.57 Radio Atlas: A Lunkhead Among the Stars p.64

Schedule Tuesday 12 June

23:00

Yellow Is Forbidden p.59

The Trial + Q&A p.64

Cocorico Monsieur Poulet p.75

22:00

Music When The Lights Go Out + Q&A p.69

Phantom Cowboys + Q&A p.42

When the War Comes p.49

One or Two Questions + Q&A p.48

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin + Q&A p.70

21:00

Tanzania Transit + Q&A p.42

Kinshasa Makambo + Q&A p.46

Going South + Short + Q&A p.67

20:00

Three Identical Strangers p.42

Too Beautiful: Our Right To Fight + Q&A p.43

Doel + Short p.67

What is Democracy? + Q&A p.64

19:00

The Light Cinema 6

Victory Day p.70

18:00

The Insufferable Groo + Q&A p.40

The Gospel of Eureka + Q&A p.62 Have You Seen The Listers? p.52

17:00

The Light Cinema 8

Into The Okavango + Q&A p.41 The Game + Short p.40

16:00

Bruce Lee & The Outlaw + Q&A p.39

Exchange Breakfast Reception p.126

Other

15:00

Out + Q&A p.53

Flow p.62

Exchange Portal p.34

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14:00

A Northern Soul + Q&A p.50

Central Bus Station + Q&A p.40

The Light Cinema 8

13:00

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3

Showroom Cinema 1 Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2

12:00

For the Birds + Q&A p.51

No Greater Law + Q&A p.74

PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 Curzon Cinema 1

11:00

The Ballymurphy Precedent + Q&A p.45

The Light Cinema 6

The Light Cinema 3

10:00

Bertha Dochouse Showroom Cinema 4

09:00

Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Schedule Tuesday 12 June

Talks & Sessions

Marketplace

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Schedule The Light Free Screen on Howard Street Thu 07 June

09:00

14:00

15:00

16:00

17:00

18:00

19:00

20:00

Docsersise 2 p.79

Strolling 1 p.78

Tue 12 June

Irene Baque Retro p.79

Thee, Thyself and Thy p.80

Doc/Fest Mix 1 p.78

Nowness p.79

Resident Advisor: Beats 1 p.79

Human Rights, Human Wrongs p.80

Random Acts p.78

Ladies with a Lens 1 p.78

Ladies with a Lens 2 p.79

Mothers, Brothers and Others p.79

Fathers, Sisters and Misters p.80

Power Hour 1 p.78

Power Hour 2 p.78

Human Rights, Human Wrongs p.79

Random Acts p.79

Resident Advisor: Beats 2 p.80

Me, Myself and I p.78

Thee, Thyself and Thy p.78

Irene Baque Retro p.79

Doc/Fest Mix 1 p.79

Doc/Fest Mix 2 p.80

Spectrum p.78

Super Spectrum p.78

Struggle p.79

Strolling p.79

Nowness p.80

Mothers, Brothers and Others p.78

Fathers, Sisters and Misters p.78

Me, Myself and I p.79

Ladies with a Lens 1 p.79

Ladies with a Lens 2 p.80

On the Bench 1 p.78

Resident Advisor: Beats 2 p.78

#Soundtracks p.79

On the Bench 1 p.79

On the Bench 2 p.80

Resident Advisor: Beats 1 p.78

Festival Film! p.78

Festival Film! p.79

Spectrum p.79

Super Spectrum p.80

Power Hour 1 p.79

Power Hour 2 p.80

Festival Film! p.79

Festival Film! p.80

Struggle p.78

Festival Film! p.78

22:00

Key

Films

Festival Film! p.78

Festival Film! p.79

Arena: Night and Day p.79

Mon 11 June

On the Bench 2 p.79

21:00

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Docsersise 1 p.78

Sun 10 June

Docsersise 2 p.80

11:00

13:00

Sat 09 June

Docsersise 1 p.79

10:00

12:00

Fri 08 June

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Unforgettable live, interactive and immersive storytelling experiences. From our Opening Night celebration to musical performances, this is a roundup of your Doc/Fest Special Events.

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Special Events Opening Night

Special Events Desolation Center with live performance from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) Rating TBC Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £15/ £13

To open a vibrant weekend of cinema events at Abbeydale Picture House, Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) will be performing live following the UK Premiere of Desolation Center. The film vividly portrays the untold story of a series of guerrilla desert gatherings now recognised as the inspiration for Burning Man and Coachella, with performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, and more.

Special Events

Special Events

See Desolation Center (p.56) Part of the Doc/Rhythm Strand (p.55)

Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live

Fri 8 June / 21:30 / Abbeydale Picture House / £15/ £13

A Northern Soul

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Thu 7 June / 18:45 / City Hall Oval Hall / £11/ £8

Following A Syrian Love Story’s Doc/Fest’s Grand Jury Award win in 2015, Sean McAllister returns to Sheffield to open the Festival’s 25th Edition with the World Premiere of A Northern Soul. With his signature vision and sense of rapport, Sean reflects on changes to his Yorkshire hometown: a city divided by Brexit that is simultaneously celebrated as UK City of Culture and hit by austerity. Drawn to the fringes of town, Sean encounters Steve, a struggling warehouse worker by day and hip-hop performer by night, with a dream…

World class beatboxer and vocal artist Reeps One presents the World Premiere of his new live show, blending the latest technology, stunning visuals, and unbelievable vocal performances. Featuring footage from the forthcoming docu-series collaboration with Nokia Bell Labs We Speak Music, Reeps will be joined for an AI duet with the ‘Reepsbot’ and will create mind-blowing visual and sonic spectacles through the power of the voice.

Also see: We Speak Music doc-series + Q&A with Reeps One (p.34) Part of Alternate Realities (p.83)

See A Northern Soul (p.50) Part of the Doc/Love Strand (p.50) 26

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Special Events

Special Events

Nature’s Nickelodeons

The Dark Room

Experience the nature documentary, but as you’ve never seen or heard it before. Inspired by an abandoned idea of Walt Disney’s to build natural history cinemas in zoos, experimental composers, musicians and a sci-fi writer join filmmaker and Doctor of GeoHumanities Amy Cutler to re-invent the heroes, villains, sounds and spaces of nature broadcasts.

We’ll travel through submerged volcanoes, bio-luminescence, flocking birds and swarming insects, accompanied by new performances, from live drone laments to the conducting of “feral singing” by the audience.

Comedian John Robertson’s smash-hit live-action adventure game is coming to Sheffield for a one-off Doc/Fest special at Trafalgar Warehouse.

Look out for bespoke documentary and Sheffield references, as you awake to find yourself in a Dark Room. Stuck inside with your fellow audience members you must work together to escape. You, the audience, must choose-yourown adventure and select an option. Will you: A) Find the light switch? B) Go North? C) Cry for help?

Sat 9 June / 16:00 / The Leadmill / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 20:00 / Trafalgar Warehouse / £10/ £8

Part of Alternate Realities (p.83)

Special Events

Special Events

Threads: Redux Sat 9 June / 18:30 / The Leadmill / £5

In 1984, the BBC’s dystopic docudrama Threads depicted the nuclear Apocalypse in Sheffield, terrifying millions of viewers. The day before Sheffield Doc/Fest’s 25th Edition begins, artist Richard DeDomenici will remake several minutes of Threads in the very locations that the original show was shot, and he wants your help!

Email redux@sidf.co.uk to be part of Threads: Redux, and join us for the World Premiere event of DeDomenici’s guerilla recreation on Saturday 9 June, featuring behind-the-scenes footage, the Redux screening itself, and all the unique absurdity and general hilarity that comes with DeDomenici’s live shows.

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Shirkers with live performance from Weish

PG

Sat 9 June / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £13/ £11

In the Sundance award-winning Shirkers, filmmaker Sandi Tan sets out on a playful and revealing personal odyssey to solve the mystery behind her long lost first movie. This UK Premiere screening will be accompanied by a mesmerising live performance of music from the film’s soundtrack by Singaporean vocal loop artist Weish and a Q&A with director Sandi Tan in person.

See Shirkers (p.69) Part of the Doc/Vision Strand (p.66)

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Special Events

Special Events

Tranny Fag with live performance from Linn da Quebrada 15

Black Mother with live score from Gaika 12

Sat 9 June / 21:15 / Abbeydale Picture House / £13/ £11

See Black Mother (p.66) Part of the Doc/Vision Strand (p.66)

See Tranny Fag (p.58) Part of the Doc/Rhythm Strand (p.55)

Tanzania Transit with uSiSTA live pop-up Rating TBC Sun 10 June / 18:30 / Abbeydale Picture House / £10/ £8

The European Premiere of Tanzania Transit will take you aboard a rolling microcosm of East African society. Three characters join on us in transit - Rukia, Isaya, and Peter, each individual tells a story of overcoming hardship, and resilient momentum. This special screening will be accompanied by an immersive celebration of music and food from East Africa.

Join the uSiSTA crew before and after the screening for Tanzanian food, music, virtual reality and even a game of Swahili bingo.

See Tanzania Transit (p.42) Part of the Doc/Adventure Strand (p.39) 30

Sheffield Doc/Fest, in partnership with Warp Records, is proud to present GAIKA’s newly commissioned hypnotic live score, performed for the first time, responding to Khalik Allah’s latest documentary Black Mother. Part film, part rhythmic baptism, this evening of beautiful live cinema will transport audiences to the shores and streets of Jamaica through a poetic tapestry of words, sounds, images and fervent energies.

Special Events

Special Events

A vibrant night of queer cinema and contemporary Brazilian electro-funk.

São Paulo pop star Linn da Quebrada is a Black trans woman whose explicit anthems give voice to marginalised communities from the favelas, while also confronting the Brazilian music scene’s macho, heteronormative prejudices. Kiko Goifman and Claudia Priscilla’s candid profile of this radical performer will be followed by a special live performance from Linn and friends at Abbeydale Picture House.

Sun 10 June / 18:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £15/ £13

The Incredible Playable Show Mon 11 June / 20:00 / Trafalgar Warehouse / £10/ £8

An award-winning live video game show where you, the audience, take to the stage. Become human buttons, zap each other with barcode scanners, and play Pac-Man using inflatable toys. Or sit back, and watch your friends literally become cogs in a hilarious machine.

Interactive ringmaster Alistair Aitcheson brings the madcap hilarity of his theatrical gaming mashup to Sheffield for a special performance at Doc/Fest. Referencing iconic Sheffield landmarks, themes from the Alternate Realities programme like memory and data and lampooning the documentary world in its own unique idiom. The Sheffield chapter of Incredible Playable can only be experienced as part of Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities programme in Trafalgar Warehouse.

Part of the Alternate Realities (p.83)

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Special Events Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space

Special Events Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space

Supported by

Bringing together a specially curated programme of Talks, Films and Alternate Realities experiences, Exchange: Head Space is a hub for all on Tudor Square.

Celebrate the power of storytelling with film screenings including Awe Filled Vision of the World (p.34), On the Ground at Grenfell (p.35) and The Mighty Redcar (p.35).

Free and open to all during the day, kicking off at 10am with complimentary tea, coffee and pastries. The Exchange features daytime talks and other activities, and ticketed film screenings in the evening.

Escape to different realities by entering the Exchange Portal, our 360º projection venue which will transport you to virtual and alternate worlds.

Join us at our Exchange Cafe, run by Ozone Coffee Roasters in collaboration with The Depot Bakery and licensed Bar offering alcoholic and non-alcoholic drinks by Hop Box. There is also a line-up of quality street food traders curated by Peddler throughout the day and evenings.

Special Events

Special Events

Guest speakers include SBTV founder Jamal Edwards, vocal artist Reeps One, BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ Mim Shaikh, director Claire Simon, S-Town host and creator Brian Reed, actor George MacKay and the artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth and Jane Pollard. Join them to hear about the inspirations and experiences behind their work.

Welcome to Exchange: Head Space for special talks, films and activity, with a focus on your mental health.

Come together for adventures through the mind, surprising new perspectives on life and inspiring conversation.

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Supported by

DOUBLETHINK Festival Commission

Thu 7 June / 12:00–22:00 Fri 8 – Tue 12 June / 10:00–22:00

Experience DOUBLETHINK and be faced with a binary decision: enter the container marked HATE or the one marked HOPE. But choose wisely, because you can’t experience both...

DOUBLETHINK is a brand new immersive video installation by renowned artists and filmmakers Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (20,000 Days on Earth), with music by Warren Ellis (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds), written by Stuart Evers, and performed by George MacKay. Created specifically for Sheffield Doc/Fest with support from Wellcome and in consultation with mental health researchers.

Creators: Iain Forsyth Jane Pollard Producer: Phantoscopic Country: UK

Year: 2018 Duration: 15 mins Premiere: World

No need to book. Just head to Tudor Square to experience DOUBLETHINK. Runs on the hour and every half-past the hour.

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Special Events Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space What’s on Alternate Realities: Portal

Thu 7 – Tue 12 June / 10:00 - 17:00 / Exchange / Free

Head Space Shorts

Thu 7 June / 12:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Dip into our specially curated series of short films exploring mental health perspectives from all walks of life.

Awe Filled Vision of The World Fri 8 June / 11:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

Join producer Alex Usborne (104 Films) for a screening of extraordinary new short films from Neurodiverse filmmakers. Sheffield based 104 Films have been developing work from a new generation of neuro-diverse filmmakers.

Neuro-diversity is the disability of the mind and these films show a very different way of seeing the world.

Romanian filmmaker Porumboiu focuses on Laurentiu Ginghina, a bureaucrat who dreams of revolutionising football.

Yet when the director makes Ginghina’s alternative game reality, the bureaucrat can’t stop reworking his theories.

Social Chain’s Dominic McGregor in conversation

Sat 9 June / 11:00 / Exchange Dome / Free COO and Co-founder of The Social Chain Group, Dominic McGregor shares his story about how and why he became a mental health advocate.

We Speak Music docu-series + Q&A with Reeps One Sat 9 June / 12:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

Off the back of vocal artist, Reeps One’s unique live performance (p.27), this screening of the docu-series We Speak Music is made in collaboration with Nokia Bell. Reeps joins us after the screening to explore the links between self-expression, music and the mind.

Want to Work in Film?

Sat 9 June / 14:00 / Exchange / Free

Fri 8 June / 15:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

An opportunity for aspiring and new filmmakers, artists and animators to connect with Alice Ramsey, BFI NETWORK, to find out about the film industry and kick-start your career.

Step into the brave new world of Alternate Realities - hear from the creators of virtual and augmented reality experiences that help explore the inner workings of the mind.

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and George Mackay talk DOUBLETHINK and more

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers

The Task (dir. Leigh Ledare) Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome / £5

A conference unfolds. There is a tension between the observed and the observers; they have a task. Relations are tense as the group probes its dynamics and conflicting desires.

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Fri 8 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome / £5

Sat 9 June / 14:30 / Exchange Dome / Free Join artists Iain Forsyth, Jane Pollard and actor, George Mackay to explore the brave new world of DOUBLETHINK (p.33).

All Free Before 6pm Mind Games, Comedy Quiz Sat 9 June / 16:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

Come and take part in a comedy quiz all about the mind.

Milford Graves Full Mantis (dir. Jake Meginsky, Neil Young) Sat 9 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome / £5

Celebrating the creativity of legendary American percussionist Milford Graves, this film is itself a kaleidoscope ode to the creative process, and a unique homage to the free jazz pioneer.

The Dread (dir. Pablo Aparo, Martín Benchimol) Sat 9 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome / £5

A strange disease threatens the residents of “El Dorado”. Only an old man knows the antidote, however no one is encouraged to visit him.

Claire Simon in conversation Sun 10 June / 11:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Join director, Claire Simon (dir. Young Solitude p.54), discussing her film, which portrays the crucial time in life between 16 and 18 years old.

Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Jamal will discuss his recent documentary exploring mental health and his plans for SBTV and beyond.

Special Events Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space On the Ground at Grenfell + Q&A

Alastair Campbell in conversation

Join filmmaker, Nendie PintoDuschinsky for a unique screening and conversation about On the Ground at Grenfell, which tells the stories of nine people - survivors, local residents and volunteers who have been affected by the Grenfell Tower fire.

Alastair Campbell and filmmaker Peter Gauvain will talk to cultural observer and poet Naana Orleans and historian Dr Julie Gottlieb about their BBC documentary Alastair Campbell: Depression and Me.

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

The Mighty Redcar + Q&A

Sun 10 June / 17:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Join filmmaker John Douglas and key characters for a unique screening of an episode from The Mighty Redcar.

Silvana (dir. Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis) Sun 10 June / 18:30 / Exchange Dome / £5

Crushing fascists, homophobes and the patriarchy with her lyrics, the Swedish rapper of Lithuanian and Syrian heritage meets her match in pop artist Beatrice Eli, sparking a heady love story.

América (dir. Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside)

Sun 10 June / 21:15 / Exchange Dome / £5

América (p.51) is a story of brothers confronting the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult realities when brought together to creatively care for their mentally ailing, but physically fit, 93-year-old grandmother.

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers

Mon 11 June / 11:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Step into the brave new world of Alternate Realities - hear from the creators of virtual and augmented reality experiences that help explore the inner workings of the mind.

Mon 11 June / 14:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

Brian Reed (S-Town) and Richard Miron (For The Birds) in conversation Mon 11 June / 16:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Join host and co-creator of S-Town, Brian Reed, in conversation with Director/ Producer, Richard Miron to explore the real life mysteries and strange tales that inspired their work.

Time Trial (dir. Finlay Pretsell)

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome / £5 First time feature director Pretsell captures the final career struggle of cyclist David Millar. An immersive, visceral experience inside Millar’s grueling attempt to qualify in the Tour de France.

Young Solitude (dir. Claire Simon)

Mon 11 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome / £5 Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age.

Head Space Virtual Reality

Supported by

Mim Shaikh (BBC Radio 1Xtra) and Karen Gabay in conversation Tue 12 June / 14:00 / Exchange Dome / Free

BBC Radio 1Xtra DJ and filmmaker Mim Shaikh joins Karen Gabay to put music, creativity and black mental health under the spotlight.

The Pain of Others (dir. Penny Lane)

Tue 12 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome / £5 With the medical community failing to recognise their condition, a handful of women take to YouTube to broadcast every aspect of their bizarre disease to a sympathetic cyberspace.

Ghosthunter (dir. Ben Lawrence)

Tue 12 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome / £5

Special Events

Special Events

Sheffield Doc/Fest welcomes Portal back to Tudor Square. This cutting edge 360º projection venue from our partners Igloo, hosts a selection of impactful 360º documentary experiences from the Alternate Realities exhibition Better Known Truths (p.91) and includes immersive experiences exploring the connections to health and well being.

Infinite Football (dir. Corneliu Porumboiu)

Supported by

A part-time Ghosthunter spent decades searching for his absent father. When his search converges with a police investigation, a family secret is exposed, forcing him to confront his brutal past.

Walking Tours with Magid

Fri 8 June – Mon 11 June / 10:00 & 14:00 / Exchange Box Office / Free Join Lord Mayor Magid Magid on his free tours to guide you through Doc/Fest. Each starting at the Box Office on Tudor Square, Magid will highlight key festival events and venues with his own local Sheffield knowledge.

Tue 12 June / 12:00 / Exchange Dome / Free Find out how immersive experiences such as virtual reality and provide insights into a healthy mind. Future media expert Andy Miah is joined by neuroscientist Hugo Spiers.

For further programme times, please go to www.sheffdocfest.com or visit the Doc/Fest Box Office on Tudor Square during the Festival.

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From short to longform storytelling, the Film programme presents bold and innovative non-fiction films made by some of the most authentic international filmmakers working today.

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Films Strand Titles p. 39

p. 66

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Doc/Adventure

Doc/Visions

p. 44

p. 71

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

See an insightful and poetic vision of Lebanon through the latest documentary films.

Doc/Expose

New/Lebanon p. 73

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

Doc/Love

Doc/Rhythm

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

p. 60

Doc/Think

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

New/UK

Strand Doc/Adventure

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Adventures Shorts Various / 68 mins

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From ringside action to waterslide attraction, youth, energy and precarious ambition combine in this parade of exuberantly cool short portraits.

Tue 12 June / 15:30 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

Films

Films

p. 50

p. 55

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Films

p. 75

Retro/Electric Avenues

Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Doc/Fest Meet Market Pitched

Before Father Gets Back

Rating TBC

Mari Gulbiani / Georgia, France, Germany / 2018 80 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In a Georgian village, from which many men have left for Syria, two girls escape a shared longing for their fathers through the magic of cinema.

Fri 8 June / 16:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 11:30 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Bruce Lee & the Outlaw

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Joost Vandebrug / UK, Netherlands, Czech Republic / 2018 85 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Nicu, a young homeless boy, is adopted by Bruce Lee, the notorious “King of the Underworld” and goes to live with him in the tunnels underneath Bucharest.

Fri 8 June / 21:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 12:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

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Films

Strand Doc/Adventure

Films

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Central Bus Station

18

Tomáš Elšík / Czech Republic / 2018 / 78 mins / World Premiere

Central Bus Station, a building which has turned from a great gift to a place for immigrants.

Yonathan has learnt that it can reveal the essence of the society as well as one’s soul.

Sat 9 June / 15:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee Rating TBC

Marine de Contes / France / 2018 / 53 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Into The Okavango

Rating TBC

Neil Gelinas / USA / 2018 / 94 min / International Premiere

From the view of their log cabin hut in the Landes region of France, men scour the autumnal skies.

They listen to the rustling of the forest, eagerly awaiting the birds to pass overhead.

Sun 10 June / 17:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

The Okavango River provides a vital source of water to about 1 million people. However, this once unspoiled oasis is now under siege due to increasing pressure from human activity.

Screening with: Skywards

Rating TBC

Feargal Ward / Ireland, Germany / 2017 / 77 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Thomas Reid lives a solitary life. But beside his 17th century farm looms a vast American factory.

When the Irish State tries to take his farm, he vows to resist.

Fri 8 June / 11:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5 Tue 12 June / 9:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Tue 12 June / 9:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid

Fri 8 June / 11:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

Films

Films

Tue 12 June / 9:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

The Game

Strand Doc/Adventure

Mon 11 June / 9:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Ghosthunter

Rating TBC

Ben Lawrence / Australia / 2018 / 100 mins / International Premiere / [S]

A part-time Ghosthunter spent decades searching for his absent father. When his search converges with a police investigation, a family secret is exposed, forcing him to confront his brutal past.

Mon 11 June / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5 40

The Insufferable Groo

Scott Christopherson / USA / 2017 / 98 mins / World Premiere

Having directed nearly 200 low-budget movies, Utah filmmaker Stephen Groo seeks Jack Black for his latest human/elf fantasy drama. This hilarious yet sincere portrait depicts an uphill production battle.

Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 15:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

12

Love Means Zero

Rating TBC

Jason Kohn / USA / 2018 / 89 mins / UK Premiere

At 86, famed tennis coach Nick Bollettieri is a living legend. At his academy in Florida, he raised a generation of champions.

Early doors screening: Thu 7 June / 9:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5 Mon 11 June / 13:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

The Man Who Stole Banksy

Rating TBC

Marco Proserpio / Italy / 2017 / 91 mins / European Premiere / [S]

A Palestinian taxi driver attempts to sell a Banksy mural on eBay. As we follow the artwork, we uncover a secret art market of stolen walls from around the world.

Fri 8 June / 17:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 18:45 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

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Films

Strand Doc/Adventure

Films

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

What does it take to build an Olympian? Russian gymnast Margarita floats in performances of effortlessness. But behind smiling scenes is an astonishing cocktail of maternal soothing and hissing fury.

Three boys in small town America find their hopes and dreams tempered by their circumstances.

Moving back and forth over eight years, this is a moving, skilful exploration of adolescence.

First time feature director Pretsell captures the final career struggle of cyclist David Millar. An immersive, visceral experience inside Millar’s grueling attempt to qualify in the Tour de France.

Sat 9 June / 21:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 21:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 18:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 21:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

18

Marta Prus / Poland, Germany, Finland / 2017 / 74 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Films

Mon 11 June / 11:45 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

Phantom Cowboys

15

Jeroen van Velzen / Netherlands / 2018 / 75 mins / European Premiere / [S]

On a train crossing Tanzania, a riding microcosm of East African society, we follow three main characters reflecting on the strength to survive.

Sun 10 June / 18:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 19:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

See Tanzania Transit in Special Events (p.30)

Three Identical Strangers Tim Wardle / UK, USA / 2017 / 96 mins / European Premiere

In 1980, three New York identical triplets separated at birth discovered each other.

But behind the remarkable story lurked a dark secret that questioned the notion of who we are.

Sat 9 June / 15:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 18:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Finlay Pretsell / UK / 2017 / 81 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

PG

Vienna Calling

Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight

PG

Maceo Frost / Netherlands, USA / 2017 / 77 mins / World Premiere / [S]

Cuba ranks highly at Olympic boxing, but women can’t compete. This immersive film follows Havana boxer Namibia, who’s hoping the ban is lifted.

Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £10/ £8

Screening with: Cheer

Rating TBC

U

Tue 12 June / 16:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 Screening with: Hands Up, Chin Down

Films

Daniel Patrick Carbone / USA, UK / 2018 / 93 mins / International Premiere

Time Trial

Tanzania Transit

Take a ride through thrilling tales, dramatic challenges, sports documentaries, and road trips.

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Over the Limit

42

Strand Doc/Adventure

15

Petr Šprincl / Czech Republic / 2018 / 67 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In this docufiction road movie, a graverobbing artist and his sidekicks journey to Vienna in a horse drawn caravan of death to return some famous teeth.

Fri 8 June / 14:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 21:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

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Films

Films

Strand Doc/Expose

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Strand Doc/Expose

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

A Woman Captured

Bernadett Tuza-Ritter / Hungary / 2017 / 89 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

The Ballymurphy Precedent

Powerfully revealing stories from filmmakers who listen to the often unheard, exploring injustice, refuge and discrimination in the UK and afar.

Bernadett Tuza-Ritter enters the heart of darkness in Marish’s world. Living as a domestic slave in Hungary for 10 years, she is powerless without police protection or a support system.

Britain’s secret war crime. The unknown killing of eleven innocent civilians by British forces in one Belfast estate which led to Bloody Sunday and helped precipitate Northern Ireland’s 30 year war.

Fri 8 June / 11:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £5

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Various / 94 mins

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Sat 9 June / 18:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

15

Mon 11 June / 21:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Rating TBC

Callum Macrae / Ireland, UK / 2018 / 106 mins / World Premiere

Tue 12 June / 9:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Films

Films

Doc/Expose Shorts

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Doc/Dispatch

Rating TBC

Various / 2018 / World Premiere

A collection of urgent, embedded, and unfolding stories from around the world. Doc/Dispatch is a showcase for short documentary journalism from citizen reporters, investigative filmmakers and responsive news units.

Fri 8 June / 13:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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A Thousand Girls Like Me Sahra Mani / Afghanistan, France / 2018 / 76 mins / European Premiere / [S]

18

Commander Arian

Rating TBC

Alba Sotorra / Germany, Spain, Syria / 2018 / 105 mins / European Premiere / [S]

The Congo Tribunal

Milo Rau / Germany, Switzerland / 2017 / 100 mins / UK Premiere

A young Afghan woman confronts the will of her family and the traditions of her country to seek justice for years of sexual abuse from her father.

YPJ Commander Arian and her group of female fighters head into the heart of the Syrian War, on an epic mission to liberate their lands from ISIS.

Staged as a tribunal on-location in Bukavu and Berlin, director Milo Rau creates an unshrouded portrait of one of the biggest and bloodiest economic wars in human history.

Fri 8 June / 15:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 19:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Thu 7 June / 16:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 18:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 9:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Rating TBC

Mon 11 June / 11:00 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5

45

Films

Strand Doc/Expose

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

The Distant Barking of Dogs

12

Fake News Fairytale

18

Kate Stonehill / UK / 2018 / 14 mins / World Premiere

Once upon a time in Veles, Macedonia, a craze caught on for the lucrative activity of generating outrageous online stories. Fake news helped shift the course of history, or reality.

10-year-old Oleg’s Eastern Ukrainian village is caught in constant crossfire. In this beautifully crafted observational film, Oleg’s ordinary boyhood plays out against a continuously ominous landscape.

Fri 8 June / 20:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Laila At The Bridge

18

18

Maurice Sweeney / Ireland / 2017 / 82 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Dolours Price, bred to violent republicanism yet ultimately haunted by her actions, gave a filmed interview not to be broadcast until after her death.

This is her shocking story.

Kinshasa Makambo

Self-titled ‘badass’ Laila Haidari fights to rescue heroin addicts in Afghanistan, a country plagued by opium-fuelled corruption. A child-marriage survivor, Laila continues to defy the violent and exploitative patriarchy.

Dieudo Hamadi / Democratic Republic of the Congo, France, Switzerland, Germany, Norway / 2018 / 75 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Of Fathers and Sons

An ex al-Shabab member, Mohammed is not welcome in the UK. But with his young family in London, he is desperate to return and refuses to give up hope.

Sun 10 June / 15:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 /

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

18

Talal Derki / Germany, Lebanon, Qatar, Syria / 2017 / 98 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In a chaotic and often dangerous Kinshasa nothing is certain. Three activists risk everything trying to mobilise a rebel generation to unseat Joseph Kabila and his brutal police state.

Posing as a sympathetic war photographer, Syrian director Talai Derki gains access to the world of minesweeper Abu Osama, who is raising his many young sons to be Jihadi fighters.

Sun 10 June / 10:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

Fri 8 June / 19:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 16:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

12

Mon 11 June / 19:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

12

Lost Warrior

Søren Steen Jespersen, Nasib Farah / Denmark / 2017 / 85 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Elissa Mirzaei, Gulistan Mirzaei / Canada, Afghanistan / 2017 / 97 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Mon 11 June / 21:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

46

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Sat 9 June / 12:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 9:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

Mon 11 June / 14:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Films

Films

Screening with: Watching the Detectives (p.49)

Fri 8 June / 18:45 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Strand Doc/Expose

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Simon Lereng Wilmont / Denmark, Finland, Sweden / 2017 / 91 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

I, Dolours

Films

On Her Shoulders

18

Alexandria Bombach / USA / 2018 / 94 mins / European Premiere

23-year-old Nadia Murad leads a harrowing but vital crusade: to speak out on behalf of the embattled Yazidi community who face mass extermination by ISIS militants.

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8 Mon 11 June / 9:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £5

Sun 10 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8 47

Films

Strand Doc/Expose

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Films

Strand Doc/Expose

Witness bold investigations exposing corruption, crime, and injustice, from frontlines to headlines.

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

One or Two Questions

Rating TBC

Kristina Konrad / Germany, Uruguay / 2018 / 237 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

18

Almudena Carracedo, Robert Bahar / Spain, USA / 2018 / 96 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Tue 12 June / 11:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Sat 9 June / 17:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Matthew Heineman / USA / 2017 / 125 mins / European Premiere

In this revealing portrait of the drug trade, addicts and their families struggle in Atlanta, drug lords and poppy-seed farmers toil in Mexico, and narcotics units and dealers clash in Columbus.

A powerful film that tells the story of celebrated Sunday Times journalist Marie Colvin and photographer Paul Conroy’s ill-fated trip to Syria in February 2012.

Sat 9 June / 12:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Sat 9 June / 18:30 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Rating TBC

Chris Martin / UK / 2018 / 93 mins / World Premiere

Whispering Truth to Power

18

A paramilitary group in Slovakia is recruiting hundreds of young men, aiming to create a model community based on military drill, obedience and fear.

Sat 9 June / 11:45 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5 Tue 12 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Screening with: Fake News Fairytale (p.46)

Under The Wire

When the War Comes

Jan Gebert / Czech Republic, Croatia / 2018 / 76 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Reddit and 4chan users unleash a flurry of wild speculation following the Boston Marathon Bombing. The trail of the amateur detectives observes the power of internet frenzies and crowd-sourcing culpability.

Fri 8 June / 20:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 14:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 9:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

18

Films

Films

Filmed over six years, The Silence of Others tells the story of the first attempt in history to prosecute crimes of Spain’s 40-year dictatorship under General Franco.

Rating TBC

Watching the Detectives Chris Kennedy / Canada / 2017 / 37 mins / UK Premiere

At the end of the 1980s, Konrad collected opinions on the streets of Uruguay in relation to a referendum to be held on a law granting impunity human rights violations.

The Trade

48

The Silence of Others

18

Shameela Seedat / South Africa / 2018 / 87 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Having successfully fought against corruption amongst South Africa’s most powerful politicians, Public Protector Thuli Madonsela ends her last year in office with a dramatic final battle to safeguard her legacy.

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 17:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 49

Films

Films

Strand Doc/Love

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Strand Doc/Love

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

A Northern Soul

12

Sean McAllister returned to his hometown, Hull, as curator of its’ UK City of Culture opening. Living with his elderly parents and reflecting on changes to a city hit by austerity and divided by Brexit.

Tue 12 June / 11:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

See special event: Opening Night screening of A Northern Soul (p.26) 50

Love, love changes everything. Intimate, deep and occasionally humorous: brothers, mothers and lovers combine in these universal tales of close relations.

A heart-warming story of three brothers confronting the chasm between adolescent yearning and adult realities when brought together to care for their ailing 93-year-old grandmother.

Ashore portrays the life of a singular fisherman in an ancient riverfront community near Lisbon as he drifts between ocean solitude and family anchors.

Mon 11 June / 22:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Sat 9 June / 19:15 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Rating TBC

Erick Stoll, Chase Whiteside / USA / 2018 / 76 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Amal

15

Filmed over six years, this is an intimate portrait of a politicised teenage girl in contemporary Egypt.

Amal defies a patriarchal society to find her place in the revolution.

Sun 10 June / 16:45 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Rating TBC

Leonor Teles / Portugal / 2018 / 82 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Thu 7 June / 16:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Mohamed Siam / Denmark, Egypt, France, Germany, Lebanon, Norway / 2017 / 83 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Fri 8 June / 9:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Ashore

Sun 10 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Sean McAllister / UK / 2018 / 80 mins / World Premiere

Thu 7 June / 18:45 / Sheffield City Hall / £13/ £11

Various / 68 mins

América

Films

Films



Doc/Love Shorts

The Eyes of Orson Welles

Rating TBC

Mark Cousins / UK / 2018 / 110 mins / UK Premiere

Filmmaker Mark Cousins dives deep into the visual world of this legendary director and actor, to reveal a portrait of the artist as he’s never been seen before.

Sat 9 June / 15:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 9:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8 Screening with: Last Man Standing

For the Birds

Rating TBC

Richard Miron / USA / 2018 / 90 mins / World Premiere

A woman’s love for her pet ducks and chickens – all 200 of them - begins to threaten her marriage and draw attention from local animal rescuers.

Sun 10 June / 18:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 12:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

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Films

Strand Doc/Love

Films

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Strand Doc/Love

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Game Girls

Eddie Martin / Australia / 2017 / 86 mins / UK Premiere

Minding the Gap

This compassionate observational documentary charts the relationship between two homeless women in Los Angeles’ sprawling Skid Row. Tiahna seems resigned to street life, but girlfriend Teri wants to escape.

A candid and personal family portrait as young father Anthony Lister embarks on the rocky road to become the world’s greatest street artist.

A coming-of-age saga of three skateboarding friends in their Rust Belt hometown hit hard by decades of recession.

The first documentary to address LGBTQ+ coming out stories exclusively through social media footage.

Sat 9 June / 21:15 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 18:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Fri 8 June / 9:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Tue 12 June / 11:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

Tue 12 June / 14:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

15

Alina Skrzeszewska / France / 2018 / 90 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Home Games

Alisa Kovalenko / Ukraine, France, Poland / 2018 / 86 mins / World Premiere / [S]

A season in the life of Alina, a poor 20-year-old girl from Kyiv who has a chance to be saved by football.

Fri 8 June / 16:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 9:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5 52

Rating TBC

18

Bing Liu / USA / 2018 / 93 mins / UK Premiere

Out

Rating TBC

Denis Parrot / France / 2018 / 70 mins / World Premiere

Tue 12 June / 21:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Films

Films

Tue 12 June / 18:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

Have You Seen The Listers?

18

Lovers of the Night

U

Anna Frances Ewert / Germany, Ireland / 2017 / 57 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Seven elderly monks reflect on faith, aging and the challenges of maintaining a monastery and farm in rural Ireland. Sacred rituals mingle with mundane pleasures in this contemplative portrait.

Fri 8 June / 9:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5

Sun 10 June / 12:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5 Screening with: Mountain

People’s Republic of Desire

Rating TBC

Hao Wu / China / 2018 / 95 mins / European Premiere / [S]

Turning 18

18

Ho Chao-ti / Taiwan / 2018 / 87 mins / World Premiere / [S]

In China’s popular live streaming showrooms, two internet celebrities seek fame, fortune and human connection, ultimately finding the same promises and perils online as in their real lives.

This is a story of abandonment, but also of love and courage. It asks a question pondered the world: how can an unloved life find a strength of her own?

Sun 10 June / 9:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Sat 9 June / 14:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

Fri 8 June / 14:00 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

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Films

Strand Doc/Love

Follow pulsating, intimate stories celebrating the power of love, family, and friendship.

Films Strand Doc/Rhythm

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Young Solitude

Claire Simon / France / 2018 / 100 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

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Join the Conversation

Antigone

Films

Mon 11 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

#sheffdocfest @sheffdocfest

Doc/Rhythm Shorts Various / 75 mins

My body, your body, everybody, move your body.

These perfectly playful and performative shorts ebb, flow, prance and glow with human soul.

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Films

Sun 10 June / 15:15 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Claire Simon portrays an important time for any individual, from 16 to 18 years of age.

54

Rating TBC

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

Rating TBC

Pedro González Rubio / Mexico, France / 2018 / 73 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Ashes and Embers

Rating TBC

Manon Ott / France / 2018 / 71 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

A group of theatre students prepare Antigone, injecting the same emotional commitment into their family and political lives as they do on stage.

A poetic and political portrait of a working-class suburb in the process of change, nourished with the speech of those who live there, be it soft, rebellious or sung.

Sat 9 June / 18:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 15:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 16:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 12:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

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Films

Strand Doc/Rhythm

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

Rating TBC

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

Films

Desolation Center

Milford Graves Full Mantis

Rating TBC

Stuart Swezey / USA / 2018 / 92 mins / UK Premiere

Sophie Huber / Switzerland, USA / 2018 / 85 mins / European Premiere

A revelatory, thrilling and emotional journey behind the scenes of Blue Note Records, the pioneering label that gave voice to some of the finest jazz artists of the 20th and 21st centuries.

U

Jake Meginsky, Neil Young (Co-Director) / USA / 2018 / 91 mins / UK Premiere

The untold story of Reagan-era guerrilla desert gatherings that are now recognised as being the inspiration for Burning Man, Lollapalooza and Coachella, with unseen performances by Sonic Youth, Minutemen, Meat Puppets, Swans, Einstürzende Neubauten and more.

Sun 10 June / 14:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Parallel Planes

18

Nicole Wegner / Germany / 2017 / 100 mins / European Premiere

A homage to DIY indie music. Parallel Planes features radical spirits Ian MacKaye (Minor Threat, Fugazi), Michael Gira (Swans) and Yeah Yeah Yeahs. On the Saturday screening, join us at Abbeydale Picture House for a record stall plus DJ from Spinning Discs Sheffield.

Celebrating the creativity of legendary American percussionist Milford Graves, this film is itself a kaleidoscope ode to the creative process, and a unique homage to the free jazz pioneer.

Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £13/ £11

Tue 12 June / 21:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

Sat 9 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Sat 9 June / 15:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 21:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 18:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Screening with: To The Front: Scenes From a Women’s Rock Camp

Films

Films

Fri 8 June / 21:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Strand Doc/Rhythm

18

Generation Wealth

Rating TBC

Lauren Greenfield / USA / 2018 / 108 mins

Lauren Greenfield’s postcard from the edge of the American Empire captures a portrait of a materialistic, image-obsessed culture.

Thu 7 June / 12:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Fri 8 June / 15:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

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Harmony

Frederick Paxton / Russia, UK / 2018 / 71 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Punk Voyage

JP Passi, Jukka Kärkkäinen / Finland / 2017 / 97 mins / [S]

Shakedown

Bold city symphony reveals the terrible beauty in Siberia’s polluted Chelyabinsk. A mesmerizing mix of sound and image highlight the often punishing rituals inflicted on young Russian boys and girls.

PKN, a band of four mentally disabled men, is Europe’s no 1 punk-rock act. When the band’s leader decides to retire, Punk Voyage shows all the quarrels, tears and laughter.

Step into the world of Shakedown; Los Angeles’ African-American queer strip club. An erotic playground in the ‘90s and early 2000s, the club was a hub for the queer community.

Sat 9 June / 21:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 21:30 / Abbeydale Picture House / £13/ £11

Fri 8 June / 21:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 21:30 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

12

Rating TBC

Leilah Weinraub / USA / 2018 / 72 mins / UK Premiere

Sun 10 June / 13:15 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8 57

Films

Strand Doc/Rhythm

Silvana

18

Mika Gustafson, Olivia Kastebring, Christina Tsiobanelis / Sweden / 2017 / 91 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Crushing fascists, homophobes and the patriarchy with her lyrics, the Swedish rapper of Lithuanian and Syrian heritage meets her match in pop artist Beatrice Eli, sparking a heady love story.

Sun 10 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Films

They Call Her Cleopatra Wong

Yellow Is Forbidden

Rating TBC

An inspiration for Shirkers director, Sandi Tan, fiction film They Call Her Cleopatra Wong follows Singapore’s top policewoman as she teams up with her Filipino counterpart to bust a counterfeit currency operation that threatens several Asian countries with bankruptcy.

Gene Graham / USA / 2018 / 83 mins / International Premiere

Newark strip club The Dojo is a microcosm of black American society. This affectionate portrait spotlights the men who dance there and the community of women who sustain it.

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 21:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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Tranny Fag

São Paulo pop star Linn da Quebrada is a black trans woman whose explicit electro-funk gives voice to marginalised communities. This candid profile blends concert footage with offstage contemplation.

Mon 11 June / 21:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

See special event: Tranny Fag with live performance from Linn da Quebrada (p.30)

Haute couture is the most exclusive club in the world: Mostly men. Exclusively European.

Largely conglomerate-funded. Yet, Guo Pei, an independent Chinese designer has been invited to present a collection.

Sun 10 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

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Kiko Goifman, Claudia Priscilla / Brazil / 2018 / 75 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 9 June/ 21:15 / Abbeydale Picture House / £13/ £11

Rating TBC

Tue 12 June / 21:30 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

This One’s For The Ladies

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

Pietra Brettkelly / New Zealand / 2017 / 94 mins / European Premiere

Bobby A. Suarez / Phillipines / 1978 / 110 mins / / Premiere

Sat 9 June / 23:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

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Strand Doc/Rhythm

Films

Films

Sat 9 June / 18:00 / Abbeydale Picture House / £10/ £8

Move to the rhythm with energetic portraits of dance, music, and contemporary culture.

The Light Cinema Free Screen on Howard Street

Enjoy the fresh air and watch one of our many free film screenings throughout the festival.

See p.78 for listings.

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Films

Strand Doc/Think

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Strand Doc/Think

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

Doc/Think Shorts

Central Airport THF

Various / 76 mins

Sun 10 June / 18:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Fri 8 June / 9:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5 Sat 9 June / 12:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

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Berlin’s defunct Tempelhof Airport remains a place of arrivals and departures. Today it’s massive hangars are used as Germany’s largest emergency shelter for asylum seekers, like 18-year-old Syrian refugee Ibrahim.

When you post something online, can you be sure it stays there? Enter a hidden shadow industry of digital cleaning, where the Internet rids itself of what it doesn’t like.

Sun 10 June / 18:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 21:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Fri 8 June / 11:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee Rating TBC

Fernando Solanas / Argentina / 2018 / 97 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Veteran filmmaker Fernando Solanas creates a moving, humane, and urgently political vision of an environmental crisis in Argentina.

Rating TBC

Hans Block, Moritz Riesewieck / Germany, Brazil / 2018 / 88 mins / UK Premiere

Mon 11 June / 14:45 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

A Journey to the Fumigated Towns

Karim Aïnouz / Germany, France, Brazil / 2018 / 97 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

The Cleaners

Films

Films

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Art meets politics through a personal lens. This lyrical array of transportive documentaries look and think through rarely seen images of our world.

Rating TBC

Boys Who Like Girls

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Inka Achte / Finland, Norway, India / 2018 / 68 mins / World Premiere / [S]

The Dread

Rating TBC

Pablo Aparo, Martín Benchimol / Argentina / 2017 / 67 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Está Todo Bien

PG

Tuki Jencquel / Venezuela, Mexico, Germany / 2018 / 70 mins / World Premiere / [S]

A community club in India invites adolescents to think about masculinity in new ways, making the world safer for women - one boy at a time.

A strange disease threatens the residents of “El Dorado”. Only an old man knows the antidote, however no one is encouraged to visit him.

An activist delivers badly needed medicines in Venezuela where salaries peak at twelve dollars a month and 16,000 doctors have left the country.

Sat 9 June / 21:45 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Fri 8 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Sat 9 June / 14:15 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 16:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Mon 11 June / 15:30 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

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Strand Doc/Think

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

Ex-Shaman

Films

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Rating TBC

Flow

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee Rating TBC

Nicolás Molina / Chile / 2018 / 82 mins / World Premiere / [S]

A former shaman forced to give up his ancestral practices by the evangelists considering him as evil.

This is his fight to keep his traditions alive.

Fri 8 June / 11:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Flow observes the human connection between two rivers: Ganges in India and Biobío in Chile.

It proposes a poetic journey blending both civilisations through the flow of one great river.

Mon 11 June / 11:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Florian Heinzen-Ziob / Germany / 2018 / 89 mins / World Premiere / [S]

German Class takes us back to school. Over the course of six months the film closely follows the daily ups and downs of a group of children from abroad as they take their first steps in the German school system.

Sat 9 June / 16:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

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Michael Palmieri, Donal Mosher / USA / 2018 / 75 mins / International Premiere

Eureka Springs, Arkansas is known for both its passion play and gospel drag shows, attracting Christian and queer audiences alike. This nuanced portrait blends colourful performances and contrasting opinions.

Fri 8 June / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Romanian filmmaker Porumboiu focuses on Laurentiu Ginghina, a bureaucrat who dreams of revolutionising football. Yet when the director makes Ginghina’s alternative game reality, the bureaucrat can’t stop reworking his theories.

Maxim Pozdorovkin juxtaposes the outlandish and sinister efforts by Russians determined to sway the American election in this entertaining documentary made up entirely of Russian propoganda and user generated content.

Fri 8 June / 21:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Thu 7 June / 12:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

The Pain of Others

PG

With the medical community failing to recognise their condition, a handful of women take to YouTube to broadcast every aspect of their bizarre disease to a sympathetic cyberspace.

Tue 12 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Maxim Pozdorovkin / USA / 2018 / 78 mins / UK Premiere

Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Penny Lane / USA / 2018 / 71 mins / UK Premiere

Sun 10 June / 9:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

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Tue 12 June / 11:45 / The Light Cinema 8 / £5

Doc/Fest Illuminate Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

The Gospel of Eureka

Corneliu Porumboiu / Romania / 2018 / 70 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Our New President

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Mon 11 June / 17:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 18:30 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3/ £10/ £8

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Infinite Football

Films

Films

Sun 10 June / 11:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / Kino Bambino (Parent & Baby) screening / £8/ £6

Sat 9 June / 9:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Mon 11 June / 11:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

Luiz Bolognesi / Brazil / 2018 / 82 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

German Class

Strand Doc/Think

The Proposal

Rating TBC

Jill Magid / USA, Mexico, Switzerland / 2018 / 83 mins / European Premiere

Conceptual artist Jill Magid grapples with the contested legacy of Luis Barragán, Mexico’s most famous architect.

Sun 10 June / 21:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 15:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

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Strand Doc/Think

Films

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Strand Doc/Think

Encounter new ways of seeing and thinking about the world — from politics to science to philosophy.

Doc/Fest Environmental Award Nominee

Radio Atlas: A Lunkhead Among The Stars

Rating TBC

The Trial

Rating TBC

Maria Ramos / Brazil, Germany, Netherlands / 2018 / 139 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Gyrid Listuen / Norway / 2018 / 47 mins / [S]

A small-time ivory dealer struggles as forces mobilise to destroy his trade. Turning to his cousin, a wildlife ranger who hasn’t been paid in months, he sees a possible lifeline.

Sun 10 June / 19:15 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 18:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Without Brutality: 25 Years of the Art and Design Research Centre

Rating TBC

Various Directors / UK / 1994–2018 / 91 mins

2018 marks the 25th year of the Art and Design Research Centre at Sheffield Hallam. This selection of creative films by alumni of the university, from 1969 to 1993, celebrates the anniversary.

Thu 7 June / 12:00 / Showroom Cinema 4 /£5

Films

Films

Fri 8 June / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £5

Sat 9 June / 11:15 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Tue 12 June / 16:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Rating TBC

Jon Kasbe / Kenya, USA / 2018 / 76 mins / International Premiere / [S]

A behind-the-scenes look at the impeachment trial of Brazil’s first female President. This film – a tale of betrayal and corruption – witnesses the profound political crisis and the collapse of the democratic institutions.

In this projected podcast event, Radio Atlas presents Gyrid Listuen’s Prix Europa-winning radio documentary from the nineties – exploring the internal world of a young man with Down’s Syndrome.

When Lambs Become Lions

 Films Special Events The Waldheim Waltz

Rating TBC

Ruth Beckermann / Austria / 2018 / 93 mins / UK Premiere

Lies. Truth. Alternative Facts. The film analyses the uncovering of former UN Secretary General Kurt Waldheim’s wartime past. The Waldheim Waltz shows the successful use of anti-Semitism and populist propaganda.

Sun 10 June / 21:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8 Mon 11 June / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8 64

A Northern Soul (p.26)

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Tim Hetherington Award Nominee

What Is Democracy?

PG

Astra Taylor / Canada / 2018 / 117 mins / World Premiere

Featuring a range of big thinkers from Cornel West to Silvia Federici, Astra Taylor’s inquisitive film interweaves reflections on democratic ideals with evidence of its all too flawed implementation.

Sat 9 June / 12:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Tue 12 June / 9:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5

Desolation Centre with live performance from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth) (p.27) Thread: Redux (p.28) Shirkers with live performance from Weish (p.29)

Tranny Fag with live performance from Linn da Quebrada (p.30)

Tanzania Transit with uSiSTA Live Pop-Up (p.30) Black Mother with live score from GAIKA (p.31)

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Films

Strand Doc/Visions

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Strand Doc/Visions

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Doc/Visions Shorts Various / 95 mins

Doel

A wild filmic combination of books, cops, landscapes and the Eurotunnel. Nothing can be more real than the imagination in these compact cornucopias.

Sølberg’s fun, quirky, and slow cinematic film about the outskirts of Europe is a portrait of a Belgian ghost town and it’s 26 inhabitants.

Rating TBC

Frederik Sølberg / Denmark, Belgium / 2018 / 67 mins / International Premiere / [S]

Mon 11 June / 18:45 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

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Nathaniel Dorsky / USA / 2017 / 137 mins / International Premiere / [DF]

A magical collection of seven 16mm films by Nathaniel Dorsky explores the beauty of Californian nature in Spring light. Each silent film celebrates qualities of energy, joy, fullness, and rebirth.

Sun 10 June/ 15:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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When Chloe curates the Tate retrospective of Leonora Carrington, an elusive man seems to offer romance. But is she hunter or hunted?

A docufictional psychothriller for our new sexual politics.

Thu 7 June / 12:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £5

Tue 12 June / 13:15 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

Arboretum Cycle

Rating TBC

Josh Appignanesi / UK / 2018 / 74 mins / European Premiere

Mon 11 June / 15:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 21:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

Female Human Animal

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Films

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Doc/Fest New Talent Award Nominee

Black Mother

Doc/Fest Grand Jury Award Nominee

Khalik Allah / USA / 2018 / 77 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Going South

In this utterly original film, Khalik Allah interweaves voices and images of Jamaica to reflect the natural, spiritual and cultural fabric of the Caribbean island.

Going South is the second part of a tetralogy in which Dominic Gagnon intends to explore the cardinal points of the Internet in the post-truth era.

Fri 8 June / 14:15 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 12:15 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5

Sun 10 June / 21:00 / Sheffield City Hall / £10/ £8 Screening with: Rebirth is Necessary

Associated talk: Khalik Allah: Exploring a New Film Language (p.104) See special event: Black Mother with live score by GAIKA (p.31)

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Rating TBC

Dominic Gagnon / Canada / 2018 / 104 mins / UK Premiere

Screening with: Maskirovka

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

PG

RaMell Ross / USA / 2018 / 76 mins / UK Premiere

Shot over five years, photographer RaMell Ross eschews traditional storytelling in favour of a series of luminous moments, creating an original portrait of black lives in the American South.

Sat 9 June / 18:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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Strand Doc/Visions

Films

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Strand Doc/Visions

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

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Peter Watkins / France / 2000 / 220 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In this war drama blurring the lines between documentary and fiction, the working class and the bourgeoisie of 19th century Paris are interviewed and covered on television, before and during a tragic workers’ class revolt.

Last Year in Utopia

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Jana Magdalena Keuchel, Katharina Knust / Germany / 2017 / 72 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

In this revealing and playful Brechtian recreation of events, six cast members from a cancelled German reality television programme make an emotional return to their show’s isolated forest location.

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A metamorphosis is taking place under the gaudy lights of the Rio de Janeiro carnival.

Bodies shimmer with otherworldly luminosity, as transgender woman Luana Muniz dreams herself into being.

Music When the Lights Go Out is a documentary floating on this thin border between fiction and reality.

Fri 8 June / 9:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Films

Films

Tue 12 June / 21:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 14:00 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Obscuro Barroco

Evangelia Kranioti / France, Greece / 2018 / 60 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Ismael Caneppele / Brazil / 2017 / 70 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Sat 9 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 11:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Fri 8 June / 22:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Music When The Lights Go Out

Mon 11 June / 14:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Doc/Fest Youth Jury Award Nominee

Margaret Tait: A Century

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Margaret Tait / UK / 1918 / 64 mins / Premiere

A retrospective collection of films by pioneering female British filmmaker Margaret Tait: Colour Poems, A Portrait of Ga, Tailpiece, Aerial, Where I am is Here.

Sun 10 June / 19:45 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

McQueen

Ian Bonhôte, Peter Ettedgui / UK, USA / 2017 / 111 mins / Special Preview

Archival footage and personal testimonials present an intimate portrait of revolutionary British fashion designer ‘Lee’ Alexander McQueen, the workingclass boy who became a global one-man fashion brand.

Thu 7 June / 21:30 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

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Rating TBC

Shirkers

Sandi Tan / USA / 2018 / 96 mins / UK Premiere

Sleep Has Her House

When Sandi Tan made girl slasher flick Shirkers, she thought it would be a hit; instead, it was never finished. In this entertaining personal documentary she explores its painful history.

A hypnotic reverie in a dark forest, underneath waterfalls and shifting shapes in the night.

Captured on an iPhone, this is a symphonic and haunting science fiction of nature.

Sat 9 June / 22:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £13/ £11

Mon 11 June / 12:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

PG

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Scott Barley / UK / 2016 / 90 mins / UK Premiere / [DF]

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

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Films

Strand Doc/Visions

Films

Open your eyes to inspiring, radical artists, and bold cinematic visions of reality reimagined.

Strand New/Lebanon Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

The Task

A conference unfolds. There is a tension between the observed and the observers; they have a task.

Relations are tense as the group probes its dynamics and conflicting desires.

Chinese director Xiao Xiao films the eponymous mountain village where he was raised. Shot in black and white, this beautiful slow cinema piece captures the rhythms of remote existence.

Fri 8 June / 18:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square / £5

Sat 9 June / 9:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

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PG

Xiao Xiao / China / 2017 / 101 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Mon 11 June / 15:45 / The Light Cinema 6 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Sergei Loznitsa / Germany / 2018 / 94 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

Sergei Loznitsa, Ukraine’s master of documentary observation, artfully captures the crowds who gather annually in Berlin’s Treptower Park to mark the anniversary of the 1945 Soviet victory over Nazi Germany.

A trailblazing rebel who shook the world of literature, defying gender norms, societal expectations and patriarchal gatekeeping.

Ursula K. Le Guin remains a peerless lightning bolt of imagination and political insight.

Fri 8 June / 11:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £5

Sun 10 June / 21:00 / Odeon Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Tue 12 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

PG

PG

Arwen Curry / USA, Canada / 2018 / 65 mins / World Premiere

Tue 12 June / 9:30 / The Light Cinema 8 / £10/ £8

Counting Tiles

Cynthia Choucair / Lebanon / 2018 / 86 mins / UK Premiere

 The Drift

EU bureaucracy is preventing a clown troupe in Greece from entertaining refugees. As they wait, Lebanese director Cynthia Choucair muses about her own history as a child of war.

Thu 7 June / 14:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Fri 8 June / 9:15 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Rating TBC

Maeve Brennan / Lebanon, UK / 2017 / 51 mins / UK Festival Premiere / [S]

Set amongst Lebanon’s densely layered archaeological and urban sites, The Drift documents three intertwining stories of a Roman temple guardian, an archaeological conservator and a young car mechanic.

Tue 12 June / 18:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8 Screening with: In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios

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In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios

Films

Films

Leigh Ledare / USA / 2017 / 118 mins / International Premiere

Turtle Rock

Victory Day

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Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

See an insightful and poetic vision of Lebanon through the latest documentary films.

PG

Siska / Lebanon, Germany / 2017 / 48 mins / International Premiere

Once the biggest production company in the Arab world, Baalbeck Studios did not survive Lebanon’s civil war. Interweaving audio with damaged archive, director Siska creatively revisits its heyday.

Tue 12 June / 18:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8 Screening with: The Drift

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Strand New/Lebanon

Films

See an insightful and poetic vision of Lebanon through the latest documentary films.

Strand New/UK Panoptic

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Room for a Man

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Anthony Chidiac / Argentina, Lebanon, USA / 2017 / 77 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Rana Eid / Lebanon, United Arab Emirates / 2017 / 69 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

A young gay Lebanese filmmaker refurbishes the apartment he shares with his mother, then rebuilds paternal ties in Argentina. This artful, hypnotic personal essay explores identity, masculinity and sexuality.

Thu 7 June / 14:15 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8

Thu 7 June / 14:30 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 6 / £5

Sat 9 June / 9:00 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

New/UK Shorts Various / 92 mins



Open your eyes and think of Britain, then think again. This collection of poignant, woke and vibrant shorts offer a new wave of UK storytelling.

Sat 9 June / 16:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Films

Films

An evocative personal essay reflecting Beirut’s difficult recent past and uneasy present. Lebanese sound designer Rana Eid delves into her childhood memories, merging them with the landscapes of modern Beirut.

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

Doc/Fest Art Doc Award Nominee

Wild Relatives

Rating TBC

Jumana Manna / Lebanon, Norway, Germany / 2018 / 66 mins / UK Premiere / [S]

Following a transportation of seeds between the Arctic and Lebanon, Wild Relatives unfolds a matrix of people and plant lives between two distant spots of the earth.

Sun 10 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5 Mon 11 June / 9:30 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

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Against the Tides

Rating TBC

Stefan Stuckert / UK / 2017 / 90 mins / World Premiere

British open water swimmer Beth French attempts to be the first person to complete ‘Oceans Seven’ - swimming seven of the world’s most dangerous sea crossings in a single calendar year.

Fri 8 June / 13:45 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 9:00 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Grenfell

Rating TBC

Ben Anthony / UK / 2018 / 90 mins / World Premiere

Filmed across the year following the Grenfell tragedy, this documentary features accounts from the people whose lives were irrevocably changed by the most devastating tower block fire in British history.

Mon 11 June / 19:45 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8 Tue 12 June / 21:00 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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Strand New/UK

Films

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

Strand Retro/Electric Avenues Doc/Fest Meet Market Pitched

Gun No. 6

Used in 11 shootings and three murders, this is the story of Britain’s deadliest illegal gun. This hybrid of documentary and drama uncovers the reality of gun crime in Britain.

Idaho law allows the Followers of Christ to withhold medical intervention and practice faith healing instead. As the bodies of children mount, the sheriff is determined to change the law.

Thu 7 June / 16:15 / PBS America Showroom Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 12:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

Sat 9 June / 9:00 / Bertha DocHouse Showroom Cinema 4 / £10/ £8

PG

Tom Dumican / USA / 2017 / 88 mins / EU Premiere

Tue 12 June / 9:00 / Yorkshire Building Society Showroom Cinema 2 / £10/ £8



Electric Avenues Shorts 1 Various / 59 mins

Who owns the street? Who has the right to be present? This roundabout of subversive documentaries reimagine surveillance, occupation, and living in the street.

Fri 8 June / 13:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £10/ £8

Films

Films

James Newton / UK / 2018 / 75 mins / World Premiere

No Greater Law

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Watch a curated collection of cult and classic documentaries and restored archive treasures.

Rough/Ready

Electric Avenues Shorts 2

Cocorico Monsieur Poulet

An industry screening for UK and Irish films at rough cut and fine cut stages to engage with festival programmers, sales agents, distributors, and financiers. Rough/Ready is a platform to propel the best local talent to a global stage. Filmmakers, producers or editors will screen up to 20 minutes of their latest project for feedback and networking.

Radical roads into a recent history of street life, lit with the gaze of burning lights of international filmmaking. In these films the route is the destination.

The story follows three poultry sellers on a trip across the bush, attempting to deliver a load of chickens to a market in Niamey.

Various / UK / 2018 / 150 mins / World Premiere

Various / 113 mins

Mon 11 June / 19:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £10/ £8

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Jean Rouch, Dalarou / France, Niger / 1974 / 93 mins / [S]

Tue 12 June / 15:30 / Curzon Cinema 1 / £5

Festival Pass holders only.

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Strand Retro/Electric Avenues

Films

Catch a new wave of UK filmmakers and extraordinary contemporary UK stories.

AVA Library

AVA Library offers a free year-round programme of selected films from the Doc/Fest catalogue available at Sheffield Central Library and at home online with your Sheffield library membership details.

On 9 June join us for a free launch event for Doc/Fest’s AVA Library Project. Enjoy a sneak preview of a Doc/Fest film followed by tea and coffee.

Disorder

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Huang Weikai / China / 2009 / 58 mins / [S]

Footage from a dozen amateur videographers becomes a symphony of urban social dysfunction in China.

Mon 11 June / 10:30 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

Horse of Mud / Sad Song of Touha / The Sandwich

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Launch event: Sat 9 June / 13:30 / Sheffield Central Library / Free

Attiyat El-Abnoudi / Egypt / 1971-75 / 36 mins

Films

Films

Three films by the esteemed Egyptian director, Attiyat El-Abnoudi whose work is one of few Arab directors to be consistently acclaimed in the Western world, having been awarded numerous prizes for her documentaries, while frequently displeasing the authorities.

Fri 8 June / 15:45 / Showroom Cinema 1 / £5

Mon 11 June / 9:00 / The Light Cinema 3 / £5

The MOMENT

Rache Ramchurn / UK / 2018 / 45 mins / World Premiere

Imagine watching Black Mirror whilst using the very dystopian technology the narrative is based on. The MOMENT is a unique film-watching experience where your brain controls the cuts and the narrative. Don a headset connected to a Brain Computer Interface, and the rhythms of your brain data will create a new narrative edit through one of 1.1 trillion possible edit combinations.

 Audience Award

Don’t forget to vote for the Audience Awards.

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See p.6 for more.

The MOMENT explores three narratives in a dystopian future where brain-computer interfaces are both a source of social threat and potential revelation with the narrative adapting to the subconscious responses of one viewer, selected as ‘The Controller’.

Head to the caravan on Howard Street to reserve a slot to experience The MOMENT. Runs every 45 minutes.

Thu 7 June / 12:00-17:30 / Howard Street / Free

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Outdoor Screen The Light Cinema Free Screen on Howard Street

Films

Outdoor Screen The Light Cinema Free Screen on Howard Street

Thu 7 June

Fri 8 June

Sat 9 June

Mon 11 June

13:00 Power Hour 1 These films focus on challenges to power, and the power to challenge.

10:00 Strolling A collection of retrospective episodes from Cecile Emeke’s Strolling series.

10:00 On the Bench 2 A collection of episodes of On The Bench by Harry Meadley. Commissioned by UP Projects.

10:00 Irena Baque Retro A retrospective collection of shorts from artist Irena Baque’s back catalogue.

14:00 Me, Myself and I A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

11:00 Doc/Fest Mix 1 A nostalgic look at past Festival trailers and other treats from the Doc/Fest archive.

11:00 Nowness A collections of shorts from global video channel Nowness.

11:00 Resident Advisor: Beats 1 A collection of shorts from online music magazine Resider Advisor.

15:00 Spectrum A prism through which to understant the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

12:00 Ladies with a Lens 1 A collection of shorts focusing on the remarkable work, stories and talents of women around the world.

12:00 Ladies with a Lens 2 A collection of shorts focusing on the remarkable work, stories and talents of women around the world.

12:00 Mothers, Brothers and Others A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

16:00 Mothers, Brothers and Others A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

13:00 Power Hour 2 These films focus on challenges to power, and the power to challenge.

13:00 Human Rights, Human Wrongs A collection of shorts exploring the current state of the world and humankind’s role within this.

17:00 On the Bench 1 A collection of episodes of On The Bench by Harry Meadley. Commissioned by UP Projects.

14:00 Thee, Thyself and Thy A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

14:00 Irena Baque Retro A retrospective collection of shorts from artist Irena Baque’s back catalogue.

18:00 Resident Advisor: Beats 1 A collection of shorts from online music magazine Resider Advisor.

15:00 Super Spectrum A prism through which to understant the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

15:00 Struggle A selection of shorts depicting a range of different human struggles.

12:00 Random Acts A collections of shorts from Channel 4’s Random Acts.

20:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

09:00 Docsersise 1 Join us for our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

16:00 Fathers, Sisters and Misters A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

09:00 Docsersise 2 Join us for our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

16:00 Me, Myself and I A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

09:00 Docsersise 1 Join us for our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

13:00 Random Acts A collections of shorts from Channel 4’s Random Acts.

14:00 Doc/Fest Mix 1 A nostalgic look at past Festival trailers and other treats from the Doc/Fest archive.

15:00 Strolling A collection of retrospective episodes from Cecile Emeke’s Strolling series.

16:00 Ladies with a Lens 1 A collection of shorts focusing on the remarkable work, stories and talents of women around the world.

17:00 On the Bench 1 A collection of episodes of On The Bench by Harry Meadley. Commissioned by UP Projects.

17:00 Resident Advisor: Beats 2 A collection of shorts from online music magazine Resider Advisor.

17:00 Soundtracks Sound and image intertwine beautifully here in this collection of shorts from filmmaker Tristan Anderson.

18:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

18:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

18:00 Spectrum A prism through which to understant the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

20:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

20:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

19:00 Power Hour 1 These films focus on challenges to power, and the power to challenge.

Sun 10 June

09:00 Arena: Night and Day A 24 hour visual experience following the pattern of day and night, drawn exclusively from BBC Arena’s rich and varied archive.

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Free Entry

Films

Films

19:00 Struggle A selection of shorts depicting a range of different human struggles.

Free Entry

20:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

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Films Tue 12 June

09:00 Docsersise 2 Join us for our daily retro aerobics hour, preparing you for a more advanced reality.

15:00 Nowness A collections of shorts from global video channel Nowness.

10:00 Thee, Thyself and Thy A selection of short films depicting the identities of both communities and the self.

16:00 Ladies with a Lens 2 A collection of shorts focusing on the remarkable work stories and talents of women around the world.

11:00 Human Rights, Human Wrongs A collection of shorts exploring the current state of the world and humankind’s role within this.

12:00 Fathers, Sisters and Misters A selection of shorts exploring the complexities of image and identity.

13:00 Resident Advisor: Beats 2 A collection of shorts from online music magazine Resider Advisor.

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Outdoor Screen The Light Cinema Free Screen on Howard Street

14:00 Doc/Fest Mix 2 A nostalgic look at past Festival trailers and other treats from the Doc/Fest archive.

Free Entry

17:00 On the Bench 2 A collection of episodes of On The Bench by Harry Meadley. Commissioned by UP Projects.

18:00 Super Spectrum A prism through which to understant the diversity of experiences in our contemporary landscape.

19:00 Power Hour 2 These films focus on challenges to power, and the power to challenge.

20:00 Festival Film!

A surprise free screening of one of the latest movies from the Doc/Fest programme.

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Doc/Fest’s programme of interactive and immersive story worlds. Experience out of your mind virtual reality and artistic artificial intelligence that challenge the documentary form.

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Alternate Realities Summit

Alternate Realities Summit

All events in the Alternate Realities Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Alternate Realities Summit tickets are available for £66/£55+VAT from www.sheffdocfest.com

All events in the Alternate Realities Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Alternate Realities Summit tickets are available for £66/£55+VAT from www.sheffdocfest.com

Sun 10 June / Crucible Theatre Morning Session Portrayals

Afternoon Session Union

Welcome to the new era of story. Technology is rapidly changing the way we experience documentary and our role as the audience. What is shaping the future of non-fiction and how are we depicted in a world of digital representation?

It is time to stand together. The world is divided and the discourse is scary. What do we want from our new worlds of digital exploration? As we see toxicity, corruption and division revealed in other creative industries, how can the emergent landscape of interactive and immersive bring us together?

Meet the makers that want to unite us all.

Join the world’s leading interactive and immersive makers to discover how they are changing the way we see ourselves and others.

Welcome

Stories are Changing

Sun 10 Jun / 13:30 / Crucible Studio

Alternate Realities invite the audience to return and become cogs in a ridiculous machine.

Interactive ringmaster, Alistair Aichenson brings the madcap hilarity of his live video game experience to the summit for 20 minutes of stupendous fun.

Associated event: The Incredible Playable Show (p.31)

The World Unknown to You: Considering Creative Practice

Sun 10 Jun / 10:20 / Crucible Studio

Sun 10 Jun / 14:10 / Crucible Studio

Sun 10 Jun / 15:00 / Crucible Studio

Dan Tucker, Executive Producer & Curator of Alternate Realities welcomes you for a thought provoking day day of talks and discussions with the international digital storytelling community.

Compered by Sharna Jackson and Emma Cooper, co-curators of CMC’s Playground.

There are few makers who have had such a political and creative impact as Gabo Arora, former head of UNVR. Recognised as one of virtual reality’s leading auteurs, his work includes Clouds Over Sidra and The Last Goodbye. A creative force, his immersive documentary works can be seen at all the major film festivals.

Stories that are a testament to the power of the human spirit. Join three artists that have powerful and personal stories in The World Unknown to You (p.86), Alternate Realities’ showcase of immersive and interactive installations.

Speaker

Dan Tucker (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

We had long understood stories as events that are re-told to us in a telling. Then along came the digital era, offering ways to stand that story form on its head. Go through the looking glass with William and discover another story revolution, this time, algorithmically enabled. These stories meld portrayals of the self with their portrayal of the world.

Comperes

Sharna Jackson & Emma Cooper (CMC Playground)

Speaker

Producer

Annabel Grundy

William Urricchio (Head of MiT Open DocLab)

Authenticity and Diversity in Storytelling

Chair

Katy Yudin (Future of Storytelling Festival)

Speaker

Gabo Arora (Co-Dir. The Day The World Changed p.87)

Making a New Reality

Chair

Sarah Ellis (Director of Digital Development RSC)

Speakers

Stu Campbell (Dir. Inside a Mind at War p.93), Michaela Holland (Dir. Face to Face p.87), Dan Hett (Dir. The Loss Levels p.88)

Closing Remarks

Sun 10 Jun / 11:10 / Crucible Studio

Sun 10 Jun / 12:00 / Crucible Studio

Sun 10 Jun / 15:55 / Crucible Studio

Sun 10 Jun / 16:45 / Crucible Studio

Stories of the present day that you need to see.

Meet three exceptional makers who’s work is featured in Better Known Truths, Alternate Realities’ 360º documentary showcase. Featuring enlightening presentations and a group discussion with the artists about the importance of portrayal and representation to their work.

We are often presented with stories told about the developing world, rather than stories told with the developing world. Because of this, stories are often skewed and singular in how they represent some of the most critical issues of our time - and the communities in focus. Zahra Rasool, the head of Al Jazeera’s Contrast VR, presents an impassioned keynote about the path to authentic storytelling through diversity and collaboration.

What do we want the future to look like?

Immersive media, artificial intelligence and other innovations promises to impact every aspect of our societies. The stakes are too high for limited inclusion in the design of the future of media.

Ruthie Doyle shares the highlights of a year-long research project on this topic as a commission of Ford Foundation’s JustFilms programme.

Alternate Realities Curator Dan Tucker shares his closing remarks on the Summit and invites the attendees to meet the Alternate Realities artists for drinks.

Chair

Gaylene Gould (BFI Southbank)

Speakers

Jesse Ayala (Dir. Authentically Us: We’re Still Here p.91), Charlotte Mikkleborg (Dir. The Journey p.93), Gabriela Arp (Dir. Life After Hate p.92)

Speaker

Zahra Rasool, (Contrast VR, Al Jazeera / Exec Prod.

Yemen’s Skies of Terror p.92)

Speaker

Ruthie Doyle (Sundance Institute)

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities

Artist Spotlight: Gabo Arora

Incredible Playable

Sun 10 Jun / 10:00 / Crucible Studio

Better Known Truths: Considering Creative Practice

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Sun 10 June / Crucible Theatre

Speaker

Dan Tucker (Sheffield Doc/Fest)

Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks follow from 7pm at Trafalgar Warehouse (p.125) supported by Immerse UK.

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Alternate Realities The World Unknown to You Trafalgar Warehouse Ground Floor Engage with the interface and cross into the unknown to reveal worlds anew.

Thu 7 June 12:00–17:00

Fri 8 – Sat 9 June 10:00–20:00

Free Entry Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Sun 10 June 10:00–18:00

Mon 11 – Tues 12 June 10:00–20:00

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Face to Face (Festival Commission)

An intimate history and commemoration of the victims and survivors of atomic bombings and nuclear arms testing through first-hand testimonies.

A compelling installation based on the life of Michelle, who wears a facial prosthetic due to a near fatal gun injury.

Michelle Gabel, Michaela Holland / USA / 2018 / 45 mins / World Premiere / VR Installation

Contains content that some may find distressing.

A Sheffield Doc/Fest commission, supported by Arts Council England.

Associated talk: Artist Spotlight: Gabo Aurora (p.85)

Contains content that some may find distressing.

Associated talk: Considering Creative Practice (p.85)

Belongings

John-Paul Marin Matt Smith, Tea Uglow, Kirstin Sillitoe Australia / 2018 / 20 mins / UK Premiere / Installation

Experience an intimate interaction with displaced people and their stories of identity, resilience and hope.

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Cosmic Top Secret

Trine Laier / Denmark, Austria / 2018 / 60 mins / UK Premiere / Interactive Documentary

An autobiographical adventure game about T, who wants to find out what her dad did for the Danish Intelligence Service during the Cold War.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Hold the World with David Attenborough

Dan Smith / UK / 2017 / 90 mins / European Premiere / VR Installation

A unique one-on-one encounter with a digitally realised Sir David Attenborough, in which he teaches you how to examine remarkable specimens from the Natural History Museum’s collection.

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities

The Day the World Changed Gabo Arora, Saschka Unseld / USA, Japan / 2018 10 mins / International Premiere / VR Installation

Some experiences require booking — See p.6 for more information

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

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Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Homo Machina

Marc Lustigman, Noam Roubah, Olivier Bonhomme France, Germany / 2018 / 90 mins / European Premiere / Interactive Documentary

Dive into a fantastic universe where the human body becomes a gigantic mechanised factory, inspired by Fritz Khan’s medical illustrations.

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Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Inside a Mind at War

Sutu / USA / 2017 / 22 mins / UK Premiere / VR Installation

Associated talk: Considering Creative Practice (p.85)

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Life in VR — California Coast

Charlotte Jones, Tom Burton, Phil Stuart UK / 2018 / 15 mins / World Premiere / VR Installation

Experience life in the ocean from the microscopic to the truly gigantic and prepare to encounter the unexpected in an underwater world bursting with life.

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Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Is Anna OK?

Manic VR

Porton Down

A true story of twins thrown apart by one night. Step into their shoes and a beautifully illustrated world, explore memories through objects, and uncover what happened from both perspectives.

Uncover an extraordinary exploration into the exuberant, frightening, chaotic – but also beautiful – worlds of a bipolar imagination.

Relive the experiences of an ex-serviceman who unwittingly found himself in a bizarre, mind-altering military trial that changed the course of his life.

Camila Ruz / UK / 2018 / 10 mins / UK Premiere / VR Installation

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

The Loss Levels

Dan Hett / UK / 2018 / 4 mins / Festival Premiere / Game

A deeply personal yet playful story of loss based on the artist's personal experience during the 2017 terrorist attack on Manchester Arena.

Associated talk: Considering Creative Practice (p.85)

Kalina Bertin, Sandra Rodriguez, Fred Casia Canada / 2018 / 15 mins / World Premiere / VR Installation

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Sensible Data / Mixed Emotions

Martin Hertig / Switzerland / 2018 / 5 mins / World Premiere / Installation

Discover how the machine sees you and decide whether that re-informs how you see yourself.

Don Webb, Callum Cooper, Sam Von Ehren, Anna Meller UK / 2018 / 15 mins / World Premiere / VR Installation Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities

Explore Post Traumatic Stress Disorder and the banal horrors of war through hand-drawn 3D illustrations of Scott England's memories.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Alternate Realities The World Unknown to You

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Terminal 3

Asad J. Malik / USA, Pakistan / 2018 / 12 mins European Premiere / Augmented Reality

Explore contemporary Muslim identities in the USA through the lens of an airport interrogation.

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Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Pitched Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

The Voice of the Unicorn

Journey into the mind of Lisa as she remembers her lost love, Erik, through a series of fragmented memories.

A provocative exploration of the art of the non-verbal that challenges how we see and understand language, disability, art and alienation.

Aaron Bradbury, Paul Mowbray / UK, France, USA 2018 / 15 mins / European Premiere / VR Installation

Richard Butchins / Japan, UK / 2018 / Loop / World Premiere / Installation

Alternate Realities

Commissioned and supported by Unlimited, celebrating the work of disabled artists, with funding from Arts Council England and British Council.

Trafalgar Warehouse First Floor Coalesce and immerse yourself in stories of love, loss and hope.

Thu 7 June 12:00–17:00

Fri 8 June 10:00–20:00

Free Entry

Sat 9 – Mon 11 June 10:00–18:00 Tues 12 June 10:00–20:00

Alternate Realities

Vestige

Alternate Realities Better Known Truths

All experiences require booking — See p.6 for more information

 Doc/Fest Interactive Award Nominee

Where is Home

Ifeatu Nnaobi / Nigeria, Canada / 2017 / 30 mins / UK Premiere / Interactive Documentary

A journey through West Africa that asks the simple question: What is home?, revealing a complex range of thought provoking answers.

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Alternate Realities Special Events

Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live (p.27)

The Dark Room (p.29) The Incredible Playable Show (p.31)

doublethink (p.33)

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Authentically Us: We're Still Here Jesse Ayala / USA / 2017 / 3 mins / European Premiere / Mobile VR

Step into the life of Aiden ShortCloud, a Two-Spirit artist and historian in Boise, Idaho, struggling to preserve and revive his heritage in a race against time.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Berlin Paris Terror

Jürgen Brügger, Jörg Haaßengier, Astrid Schult, Ricarda Saleh Germany / 2017 / 20 mins / UK Premiere / Mobile VR

Experience the memories of the first responders and surviving hostages of the major terrorist incidents in Germany and Paris.

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Alternate Realities Better Known Truths

Doc/Fest Alternate Realities Market Pitched Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Every King Tide

Aaron Fa’Aoso, Craig Deeker, Greer Simpkin / Australia / 2018 / 10 mins / International Premiere / Mobile VR

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

The Journey

Charlotte Windle Mikkelborg / USA, Germany, Hong Kong 2018 / 10 mins / World Premiere / Mobile VR

Journey through childhood in three of the toughest environments on Earth.

Associated talk: Considering Creative Practice (p.84)

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Grenfell: Our Home

Jonathan Rudd / UK / 2018 / 20 mins / World Premiere / Mobile VR

The Real Thing

Sanctuaries of Silence

An experience that combines powerful interviews with beautiful animation to visualise the memories of home still held by the survivors of the Grenfell fire of 14 June 2017.

Step into a copy of our world, exploring real-life stories inside China's replicas of Paris, Venice and London.

A mindful and thought-provoking film that highlights the impact of noise pollution on a journey into Olympic National Park, one of the quietest places in North America.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Benoit Felici, Mathais Chelebourg / France / 2018 16 mins / International Premiere / Mobile VR

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Life After Hate: Meeting a Monster

This Is Climate Change: Feast & Famine

Witness Angela King relive the memories and motivations of the eight years she spent inside the white power movement and the path she took to get out.

Confront our new reality of catastrophic weather events that are displacing communities and transforming landscapes with alarming speed.

Gabriela Arp / USA / 2017 / 10 mins / International Premiere / Mobile VR

Danfung Dennis, Eric Strauss / USA, Somalia, Brazil, Greenland 2018 / 18 mins / International Premiere / Mobile VR

Emmanuel Vaughan-Lee, Adam Loften / USA 2017 / 8 mins / European Premiere / Mobile VR

Alternate Realities

Alternate Realities

Poruma island in the Torres Strait of Australia is slowly being swallowed by the sea. Hear a first-person perspective of a community's spirit and passion for the island they call home.

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Doc/Fest VR Award Nominee

Yemen's Skies of Terror Viktorija Mickute, Joi Lee, Zahra Rasool / Yemen 2018 / 6 mins / World Premiere / Mobile VR

Witness a rare glimpse of life inside Yemen and learn about the reality of childhood in a country that has suffered three years of devastating air raids falling from the skies.

Associated talk: Authenticity and Diversity in Storytelling (p.84)

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Talks and sessions with star filmmakers and on-screen talent from across the documentary world and beyond — to inform, challenge and inspire.

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Live Cinema Summit

Fri 8 – Sat 9 June / Crucible Theatre Venues All events in the Live Cinema Summit are available with a Festival Pass. Live Cinema Summit tickets are available for £88/£77+VAT from www.sheffdocfest.com

Introduction – Real Live

Fri 8 – Sat 9 June / Crucible Theatre Venues All events in the Live Cinema Summit are available with a Festival Pass. Live Cinema Summit tickets are available for £88/£77+VAT from www.sheffdocfest.com

Meet the Artists of Doc/Fest 2018

Round Tables – Concepts and Ideas

Fri 8 June / 16:15/ Netflix Crucible Studio

Sat 9 June / 11:00 / Crucible Adelphi

The Summit begins with an overview of the world of live cinema, its presence in the Doc/Fest 2018 programme and the potentials of ‘liveness’ for factual storytelling with Lisa Brook (Director, Live Cinema UK), Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London) and Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton).

Artists including Jarvis Cocker and British Sea Power have premiered live scores to archive films at Doc/Fest. With more archive releases with big name artists being released each year including Asunder (Esther Johnson / score by Field Music and Warm Digits), we ask those making, including Jason Singh who will perform as part of Nature’s Nickelodeons (p.28) at the Festival and those exhibiting, what is the enduring appeal of the genre, how has it become a staple of live cinema internationally and how can filmmakers and producers get involved?

Artists from the 2018 Doc/Fest programme join journalist and live cinema producer Colm McAuliffe to take an exclusive look behind the scenes of their world premiere events including Reeps One on his new live show We Speak Music Live (p.27), Richard DeDomenici on his guerilla recreation of Threads: Redux (p.28), Amy Cutler on Nature’s Nickelodeons (p.28) and Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard on their Doc/Fest commissioned immersive video installation DOUBLETHINK (p.33).

What makes a great live cinema project? How and why should filmmakers, producers and artists be using ‘liveness’ in their work? Whether you have a fully formed idea or just want to find out more, explore it with our creatives and academics.

Chair

Joel Mills (British Council)

Speakers

Bryony Dixon (BFI), Esther Johnson (Artist/ Filmmaker Asunder), Jason Wood (HOME Mcr), Jason Singh (Artist Nature’s Nickelodeons p.28)

Audience Participation and Tech

Chair

Colm McAuliffe (Creative Producer/Writer)

Speakers

Amy Cutler (Artist Nature’s Nickelodeons p.28), Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard (Artists DOUBLETHINK p.33), Richard DeDomenici (Filmmaker Threads p.28), Reeps One (Musician We Speak Music Live p.27)

Round Tables – Funding and Exhibition

Speakers

Christopher Allen (Light Surgeons), Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton), Colm McAuliffe (Creative Producer/Writer), Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London)

Expanded and Live – Audiovisual Performance

Fri 8 June / 13:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Fri 8 June / 14:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sat 9 June / 12:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Sat 9 June / 13:30 / Crucible Adelphi

From one-night-only live score presentations to experiential launch events and virtual reality projects on tour with national releases, films can hugely benefit from the live experience as part of their launch strategy. In the age of VOD, why should you consider a live element in your film’s launch strategy and how can this work for factual releases, as well as fiction? Hear from industry leading live cinema event-makers, exhibitors and marketers, and discover how cinemas are changing to embrace the concept of liveness.

Mobile, virtual reality and interactive tech innovations have left cinema-going largely unchanged – phones remain (generally) on silent and collective cinematic VR experiences are not yet commonplace with a few exceptions. Meet the exhibitors and artists, including Richard Ramchurn whose brain-controlled film The MOMENT (p.77) is playing at the Festival, harnessing tech for in-cinema experiences, including user-controlled and multi-narrative films, and mobile interactivity.

How do you get your idea off the ground, and where can you exhibit? Funders, venues and tour bookers are here to give their advice on making a financially viable project with big audience appeal without jeopardising your creativity.

Artists Christopher Thomas Allen, Katharine Vega and Toby Harris have forged new forms of events, collaborated across the arts, and embraced cultures and technologies - old and new. Join them for an exploration of audio-visual performance, projection design and a whole lot of provocation about what the ‘live’ in Live Cinema can be.

Chair

Dr Sarah Atkinson (King’s College London)

Chair

Helen Kennedy (University of Brighton)

Speakers

Anthony Andrews (We Are Parable), Kiri Inglis (Mubi), Dorottya Székely (Dogwoof), Rebecca Ashdown (Together Films)

Speakers

Sam Smaïl (Choose Your Own Documentary), Erwin M. Schmidt (Cinemathon), Richard Ramchurn (Artist The Moment p.77), Kirsty Jennings (Blast Theory)

Speakers

Lisa Brook (Live Cinema UK), Stuart Brown (BFI), Sally Folkard (Film Hub North), Kate Murphy (Arts Council England)

Talks & Sessions

Fri 8 June / 11:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Talks & Sessions

Fri 8 June / 11:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Eventise! Experiential Events

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Archive and Live Scores

Live Cinema Summit

Speakers

Christopher Allen (The Light Surgeons), Toby Harris (Toby *spark), Katharine Vega (chome.space)

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Craft Summit

Craft Summit

A day dedicated to the craft of documentary; both the techniques and the technology that goes into non-fiction film and programme making, from shorts to features. The creative minds behind many of the films in this year’s programme will explore how they have developed their craft, the creative choices they make and the tools and workflows they use.

The Colourist – Making a Grade Great

Presented by Documentary Campus Sat 9 June / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Documentary Subjects – How Close Do You Go?

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Focus on Cinematography – New Ways of Seeing?

Why we Film – Directors and Their Story Choices

Sat 9 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 9 June / 14:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

As screens become more hi-res, colour grading has become an essential tool to work with raw camera images. How can you change the look of a shot, what effect does it have and are there cost-effective solutions? Hear from a colourist who specialises in bringing black and white archive to life and a colour grader at a leading post house. We’ll discuss apps and online tools as well as high-end kit.

How do documentary filmmakers choose the stories they tell? What does it mean to put your own story on screen? And how do you craft those stories to resonate with global audiences?

Two Sundance-winning directors speak with critic and journalist Simran Hans about their filmmaking approach, and share insights into each other’s work.

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Chair

Simran Hans (Observer)

Speakers

Samuel Francois-Steininger (Composite Films), Katherine Jamieson (Halo)

Speakers

Sandi Tan (Dir. Shirkers p.69), Tim Wardle (Dir. Three Identical Strangers p.42)

Sound Design – The Art of Noise

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

All sessions in the Craft Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Presented by Documentary Campus Sat 9 June / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Animated Documentary – Frame by Frame

Sat 9 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 9 June / 11:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 9 June / 15:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sat 9 June / 16:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

This interactive and probing session will use the experience of a psychologist to gain insight into the art of directing actuality, the portrayal of character and examine whether we can ever get too close to the subject in documentaries.

Using clips from their films and some revealing tests, two filmmakers will put themselves ‘on the psychologist’s couch’ to explore how they engage with their subjects and whether and how they ever cross the line.

The choice of formats, cameras, lenses and workflows is ever increasing. Is the choice of lens ‘the new film stock’? How small can cameras get?

What does the practice of stills photography add to the moving image? With the focus on a film’s story or issue, are we paying enough attention to what it actually looks like? Hear filmmakers and DoPs discuss what they use and their reasons for using it.

As advances in technology mean better sound in cinemas and from televisions and evermore focus on a films’ soundtrack, what can sound designers do for a film? We explore this question with a director whose debut feature creates a striking portrait of Beirut through sound and image and a sound designer working across documentary and fiction.

As the form evolves, documentary and animation are coming together in surprising ways. Some filmmakers are using the artistic scope of drawn or computer-generated images to create new visual languages. For others, it may be a way round the costs of dramatic reconstruction or lack of real footage. Animator Anna Humphries will lead us through a survey of the genre’s range and we will explore with other panelists the potential for filmmakers to use animation techniques in their work.

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Chair

Krishan Arora (SBS)

Speakers

Geoffrey Beattie (Edge Hill University), Bernadette Tuza-Ritter (Dir. A Woman Captured p.45), Livvy Haydock (Presenter/Director)

Speakers

RaMell Ross (Dir. Hale County This Morning, This Evening p.67), Maceo Frost (Dir. Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight p.43)

Speakers

Peter Albrechtsen (Dir. Distant Barking of Dogs p.46), Rana Eid (Dir. Panoptic p.72)

Speakers

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Sales & Distribution Summit Sun 10 June / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

The Sales & Distribution Summit focuses on how documentaries get sold and then seen by audiences worldwide. Come to clue-up at the panels and case studies and then connect with international industry representatives at the networking sessions in the afternoon.

Sales & Distribution 101 Sun 10 June / 11:00 – 12:00 / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 10 June / 12:00 – 13:00 Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

What’s a sales agent? What’s a distributor? How do I get my film sold and seen by audiences worldwide? If you’re new to documentary filmmaking and want to know more about the incredibly important stages of sales and distribution this session is for you. Doc/Fest’s Marketplace & Talent team will bring you up to speed with the current, need-to-know aspects of working with industry partners in a ‘no assumed knowledge’ and ‘no questions are silly’ spirit.

In this session, producer Lindsey Dryden will discuss in detail the creative distribution strategy for Unrest which was pitched in the MeetMarket in 2016, followed by a World Premiere at Sundance and UK premiere at Doc/Fest in 2017 where it won the Illuminate Award. The film has since screened at numerous international festivals, been released theatrically in the USA and UK, sold to PBS and Netflix and performed well in the home entertainment market via DVD and iTunes.

Speakers

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Distribution Case Study: Unrest

Karolina Lidin (Doc/Fest), Patrick Hurley (Doc/Fest), Manon Euler (Doc/Fest)

Speaker

Sun 10 June / Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Distribution For VR

Meet the Distributors

Sun 10 June / 13:00 – 14:00 Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 10 June / 16:00 – 17:00 Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

For the past few years, virtual reality (VR) has been heralded as the “future of filmmaking” by the digital vanguard. While the medium has become a staple at forward-thinking film festivals, wider distribution for VR remains nascent.

This session will explore the challenges and opportunities that VR faces in terms of reaching wider audiences.

A chance to find out more about how distributors handle a film’s delivery to the audience by managing and marketing its journey through the various exhibition platforms. In this session, we invite executives from different distribution companies to introduce themselves, explain how they work with filmmakers and comment on the kinds of documentaries they are seeking with reference to recent examples. Following the presentations, there will be time for filmmakers to connect with distributors and exchange business cards.

Chair

Tom Grater (Screen International)

Speakers

Lydia Penke (Curzon Cinemas), Tilman Scheel (Reelport / DDD60), Victoire Thevenin (MK2)

Meet the Sales Agents

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

All sessions in the Craft Summit are available with a Festival Pass.

Sales & Distribution Summit

Marketplace Drinks

Sun 10 June / 15:00 – 16:00 Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

Sun 10 June / 17:00 – 19:00 Cutlers’ Hall, Hadfield Hall

International sales agents can help a film find distribution partners in markets worldwide, often inputting into marketing and festival strategy.

In this session, executives from a range of international sales companies will introduce themselves, explain their approach to acquisitions – what they’re looking for – and share examples of films they have recently worked on. Following the presentations, there will be time for filmmakers to connect with sales agents and exchange business cards.

Rounding off the Sales & Distribution Summit and kicking off a new week of industry activity, Marketplace Drinks offers an opportunity to get to know Decision Makers and fellow filmmakers better. The event welcomes everyone involved in Sales & Distribution Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market, Doc/Player and all Marketplace initiatives. The Marketplace & Talent team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

Lindsey Dryden (Pro. Unrest)

101

Talks & Sessions My Big Break

Munroe Bergdorf: Women, Gender & Activism

Alternate Realities Summit

Sun 10 June

Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Accelerator Lab Pitch

Sat 9 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Sat 9 June / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £66/ £55

Sun 10 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Filmmakers at varying stages in their career discuss the successes (and challenges) that paved their way into the industry. With a panel made up of BAFTA Breakthrough Brits, the creative producer of an award-winning documentary, and a true innovator of short-form, this panel is a must for anyone looking for advice on how to get their work made, and seen.

Festival Pass holders only.

As both an activist and international model, Munroe Bergdorf’s experiences as a transgender woman remain the driving force behind her work.

Voted 8th in Pride Power’s Top 100 List 2017, Munroe uses her platform to campaign for the trans community worldwide, and for all those who define as women. Munroe will discuss her work, activism, and new documentary What Makes a Woman (Antidote Productions) for Channel 4.

A full day of thought-provoking talks, interactivity and illuminating presentations from the world’s leading digtial story tellers. See, hear and experience the latest developments in immersive and interactive technology.

Session Producer Oriana Franceschi

Speakers

The Accelerator Lab brings together ten nonfiction projects helmed by first- or second-time women directors, with a special focus on underrepresented voices. The participants will pitch their projects to a live audience and will receive feedback from international decision makers and buyers. This will be an opportunity for all delegates to hear from and meet filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

Festival Pass holders only.

Ade Rawcliffe (Channel 4)

Speakers

Ed Perkins (Dir. Black Sheep p.44), Elhum Shakerifar (Pro. A Northern Soul p.50), Ayo Akingbade (Dir. Street 66 p.73), Lucy Cohen (Filmmaker)

Sat 9 June / 14:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio Thanks to digital platforms, filmmakers are embracing an experimental approach to the music promo, releasing formats that straddle fiction, documentary and music video. Brands are racing to engage with their consumers by creating compelling content - and music remains one their most powerful tools. Meet the filmmakers and platforms that are pushing the forms of storytelling.

Festival Pass holders only.

Session Producer Pegah Farahmand (Disney) Chair

Jennifer Byrne (Firepit, Warner Music)

Speakers

Rollo Jackson (Filmmaker), Robert Semmer, Alex Hoffman (Noisey / Vice), Jacqueline Edenbrow (Frieze)

For full details see p.84

Munroe Bergdorf, Laura Jones (Antidote Productions)

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Music Docs: New Forms & Platforms

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Talks & Sessions

Sat 9 June

BAFTA Masterclass: Matthew Heineman

Whose Story?

Authentic Voices in Storytelling

Sat 9 June / 16:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 11:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

The BAFTA-and-Oscar-nominated director Matthew Heineman will discuss his films City of Ghosts (awarded Doc/Fest’s Grand Jury Award 2017) and Cartel Land (awarded Doc/Fest’s Tim Hetherington Award 2015) along with his new documentary series The Trade depicting the US heroin epidemic, two episodes of which are screening at the Festival.

Chair

Mariayah Kaderbhai (BAFTA)

Now more than ever there is an urgency for stories told by less represented and authentic voices. Getting access to a community, to spend a few days filming on the ground, is widely considered ‘extractive’. Can extended integration with protagonists truly embed a filmmaker with their subject’s experience? A panel of filmmakers share their own experiences of extractive vs authentic storytelling.

Festival Pass holders only.

Speakers

Matthew Heineman (Dir. The Trade p.48)

Session Producer Laura Gane (Frontline Club) Chair

Anca Dimofte (Frontline Club)

Speakers

Deeyah Khan (Filmmaker), Feras Fayyad (Filmmaker), Leon Oldstrong (Dir. That’s Not Ours p.73), Molly Dineen (Dir. Being Blacker)

Critics Forum: The Art of Writing About Non-Fiction Film

Sun 10 June / 11:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Much like documentary filmmaking, non-fiction film and TV criticism has both an artistic and journalistic impulse. Yet during an era when documentary films and series are evolving and progressing in new directions, has criticism risen to meet this? This open and participatory forum gathers contemporary international critics to discuss the challenges and opportunities confronting the nonfiction critic working across a range of platforms, and seeks to open a productive dialogue between filmmakers and film critics.

Festival Pass holders only.

Session Producer Eric Hynes (Film Comment) & Chair Speakers

Alissa Wilkinson (Vox), Nick Pinkerton (Art Forum), Simran Hans (Observer), 103

Talks & Sessions

Sun 10 June

Khalik Allah: Exploring a New Film Language

Documenting Grenfell: A Problem in Plain Sight

A Story on Every Corner: Images of America Today

Sun 10 June

New Devices & New Voices: Pan-African Experiences

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / Crucible Adelphi / £10/ £8

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Khalik Allah’s work has been described as “street opera”: visceral, haunting and honest. Having worked with Wu-Tang Clan and Beyonce, Khalik’s feature debut, Field Niggas, garnered critical acclaim and his follow up Black Mother receives its UK Premiere at Sheffield Doc/Fest. Khalik will talk about his work as an artist and the creation of a unique and daring film language.

In 2017 the Grenfell Tower tragedy shook the nation and the lack of action angered communities. The tragedy highlighted the deep divide in society, and a local story missed by the media elite. In the lead up to the first anniversary we examine the media and filmmakers response to the disaster.

Festival Pass holders only.

Always a rich narrative vein for documentary stories, portrayals of the USA are continually in flux. How can filmmakers translate the complexities and nuances of this vast and divided country, particularly when looking in? We explore differing visions of the USA, that challenge and dispel stereotypes, attempting to show new and untold stories and approaches to America today.

Festival Pass holders only.

Documentary makers are devising new ways to tell stories using affordable technology, widening access to potential filmmakers. We explore how filmmakers from the African continent are innovating and broadening the audience for nonfiction films. From made-for-mobile to branded content, and TV formats to features, meet the filmmakers who are transforming the way stories emerge from across Africa.

Festival Pass holders only.

Session Producer Carol Nahra (Docs on Screen)

Session Producer Andy Jones (Radio Film) & Magenta Sharp

Ashley Clark (Brooklyn Academy of Music)

Session Producer Amy Richardson (True Vision)

Speakers

Khalik Allah (Dir. Black Mother p.66)

Chair

Siobhan Sinnerton (Channel 4)

Speakers

Nendie pinto-Duschinsky (Filmmaker On The Ground at Grenfell p.35), Jonathan Rudd (Creator Grenfell: My Home p.92), Simon Hattenstone (Guardian, Pro. The Tower Next Door p.73)

Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Chair

Alan Hayling (Renegade Pictures)

Chair

Patricia van Heerden (Media24)

Speakers

Sam Santana (Laguna Films Ltd), Alina Skrzeszewska (Dir. Games Girls p.52), Tom Dumican (Dir. No Greater Law p.74)

Speakers

Tulanana Bohela (BBC World Service/Ona Stories), Molatelo Maintje (Bolobatha Media), Shameela Seedat (Dir. Whispering Truth to Power p.49), Rita Ray (Sundog Pictures)

Korean Pitching Day

An Evening with Mark Cousins: 30 Images in the Dark

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Sun 10 June / 13:00 / Exchange Dome on Tudor Square

Sun 10 June / 15:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Sun 10 June / 18:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £13/ £11

The film and TV industry remains an unlevel playing field. Still rife with nepotism and ‘Old Boys’ networks, women, ethnic minorities, people with disabilities and those from working class backgrounds are still sorely underrepresented.

We discuss the obstacles faced to create a representative and diverse workforce, examine current schemes and explore what we can do together to deliver meaningful change.

Festival Pass holders only.

Britain’s hottest young entrepreneur Jamal Edwards founded YouTube-based SBTV. Now on a mission to break the stigma around mental illness, Jamal will talk to Jolyon Rubinstein (The Revolution Will Be Televised) about his recent documentary exploring mental health, about his influential career, and his future plans for SBTV and beyond.

Korean Pitching Day returns, offering participants of the the chance to pitch documentary ideas to a host of international decision makers in front of a live audience. The event will feature seven projects in total, with each project receiving feedback from key international decision makers. Come and discover exciting new filmmaking talent.

Festival Pass holders only.

Join the acclaimed filmmaker for an intimate lecture exploring the aesthetics and emotion of ‘looking’. Using 30 key cultural images, Mark will examine how our ‘looking selves’ develop and how our social and cultural surroundings shape what we see.

Session Producers Victoria Musguin-Rowe and Jemma Gander

Free and open to all.

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Not Another Diversity Panel!

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Talks & Sessions

Speaker

Mark Cousins (Dir. The Eyes of Orson Welles p.51)

Session Producer Bianca Manu

Ramy El-Bergamy (Channel 4)

Chair

Jolyon Rubinstein (Satirist)

Chair

Anne Morrison (WFTV)

Speaker

Jamal Edwards MBE (SBTV)

Speakers

Rita Daniels (Channel 4), Jaimie D’Cruz (Acme Films), Tom McDonald (BBC)

105

Talks & Sessions The Real Stories Special Relationship Pitch

Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment

Talks & Sessions The ITV Interview: Sir Trevor McDonald

Mon 11 June

The Naked Me: Personal Stories

Mon 11 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Mon 11 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Mon 11 June / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £13/ £11

Mon 11 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Real Stories is the home of compelling documentaries from the very best international storytellers. Real Stories are commissioning their next slate of films and selected filmmakers will pitch live for up to £20,000 to produce a 10-minute film. This will be an opportunity for all delegates to hear from and meet filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

Festival Pass holders only.

Eight months since the Weinstein allegations and following the birth of the Times Up and #metoo movements we debate how the industry is responding. We explore the new initiatives implemented for much needed change, and listen to additional ideas for creating the safest work environments in an often fragmented industry.

Festival Pass holders only.

The journalist and presenter will discuss what drives him to make some of the most gripping and inspiring crime documentaries seen on TV, including his two award-winning series Inside Death Row and Death Row 2018.

What drives a presenter to bare all? We explore the phenomenon of celebrity-led documentaries that tackle deeply personal - and sometimes painful - stories. A panel of well-known faces unpack the ethics, emotions, embarrassments and debates over editorial control involved in this kind of filmmaking.

Festival Pass holders only.

Kat Chirnside

Panel

Adam Gee (Little Dot Studio), Alex Hryniewicz (Little Dot Studio), Kathryn Bonnici (Java Films), Carol Nahra (Docs on Screens)

Mon 11 June / 10:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio Are we entering a Golden Age for feature documentary and will new funding sources create a flurry of blockbusters? The rising power of SVOD platforms opens up new audiences but may be skewing the market towards towards sensationalist documentaries. We will explore who’s got the money and whether today’s market prioritises “Films that do Well” over “Films that do Good”.

Festival Pass holders only.

Session Producer

Lucy Baxter (Darkley Films)

Chair

Rajesh Thind (Pindu Production)

Speaker

Mandy Chang (BBC Storyville), Lisa Marie Russo (Doc Society), Elhum Shakerifar (Pro. A Northern Soul p.50)

Session Producers Stuart Cabb & Lisa Keane (Plum Pictures) Speaker

Sir Trevor McDonald

Session Producers Victoria Musguin-Rowe & Jemma Gander

Session Producers Jack Bootle (Raw)

Laura Adams (Directors UK)

Chair

Ali Bailey (Directors UK)

Speaker

Natasha Dack Ojumu (Tigerlily Productions), Fiona Campbell (BBC), Kelly Webb Lamb (Channel 4), Tim Hunter (BAFTA), Billie JD Porter (Filmmaker)

Freedom to Play: Pros & Cons of Filmmaking as Research

Poverty in the UK: New Approaches to Storytelling

Chair

Alison Kirkham (BBC)

Speaker

Mim Shaikh (BBC Radio 1Xtra), Anne Robinson (Presenter), Anita Rani (Presenter)

The University of Sheffield presents: How to Pitch Your Academic Idea

Mon 11 June / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Mon 11 June / 12:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Mon 11 June / 12:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

A panel of filmmakers and academics explore the growing trend of straddling filmmaking and academic lives and discuss the pros and cons of making films as research. Academia can free filmmakers from conventional narratives and forms, allowing for experiments in creative storytelling.

But does their work impact in academia as traditional ‘research’ and what influence have their films in the broadcast industry?

Festival Pass holders only.

Poverty in the UK is increasing for the first time in two decades. We are seeing more people struggling to make ends meet. Does television set out accurately the complexities of living in poverty, or too crudely as either a deserving economic victim or undeserving ‘scrounger’?

How can we tell more accurate stories of poverty to skeptical audiences, for a fuller debate and actions?

Festival Pass holders only.

In this live pitch, producers and commissioners offer guidance to academics from the University of Sheffield. Shortlisted academics showcase their fields of expertise and receive feedback to determine whether they have potential as a possible TV format or segment. This will be a chance for all delegates to meet future on-screen talent and research experts.

Festival Pass holders only.

Session Producer

John O’Rourke

Session Producer

David Alamouti (Inovi)

Chair

Hans Petch (Anglia Ruskin)

Chair

Poppy Noor (Guardian)

Speaker

Shreepali Patel (StoryLab and Eyeline Films), Joanna Callaghan (University of Sussex), Nicola Daley (Director of Photography)

Speaker

Campbell Robb (Joseph Rowntree Foundation), Jack Monroe (Food writer & vlogger), Daisy-May Hudson (Filmmaker), Mark Raphael (72 Films)

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Pitch Producer

Best of Times, Worst of Times: The Future of Feature Documentaries

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Mon 11 June

Pitch Producer

Rebecca Coxon (True Vision Yorkshire)

Panel

Dan Korn (A&E), Carolyn Payne (National Geographic), Derren Lawford (Woodcut Media), Jago Lee (Antenna Pictures), Paul Windle (Development Producer, BBC), Lucy Vernall (Academic Ideas Lab) 107

Talks & Sessions Onwards and Upwards: The Future of Documentary Shorts

Art 50: Art in a Post Brexit Britain with Kirsty Wark

Talks & Sessions Goodness Gracious Me: Asian Representation from Grannies to Jihadis

Mon 11 June

Inside UKTV: Meet the Commissioners

Mon 11 June / 14:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Mon 11 June / 16:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Mon 11 June / 16:30 / Crucible Adelphi

Short form continues to offer a space to discover exciting new voices. The continued rise of digital platforms allows producers to connect directly with viewers, while broadcasters and brands continue to fund short form. Commissioners and filmmakers will explore ways and places where shorts are punching through and discuss the future for this innovative form of storytelling.

Festival Pass holders only.

What will Britain look and feel like – both to Britons and to the rest of the world – when it is no longer a member of the European Union?

Join BBC Newsnight’s Kirsty Wark to discuss Sky Arts Art 50 project, and hear from the commissioned artists whose work is examining a post brexit Britain.

Session Producer Meagan Tillock (Producer)

Chair

Kirsty Wark (BBC Newsnight)

Did Goodness Gracious Me represent a highpoint in British Asian representation on TV and can British Asian portrayal find new direction following what many see as the fallout from 9/11 and Rotherham, with continued ill-considered, and even biased coverage. How can broadcasters attract young audiences with fuller and fairer representations of British Asian culture in all its diversity?

Festival Pass holders only.

Britain’s multichannel broadcaster UKTV reaches an average of 40m viewers every month through its eleven brands including Dave, W, Gold and Really and an innovative mix of factual entertainment, observational and investigative documentary and constructed reality.

Commissioning editors explore what works for their channels, opportunities for filmmakers and offer a peek at UKTV’s new factual and factual entertainment shows.

Festival Pass holders only.

Speakers

John Godber (Playwright), Jonathan Maitland (Playwright), Dreda Say Mitchell (Author)

Chair

Adam Gee (Little Dot Studio)

Speakers

Lindsey Crouse (New York Times Op Docs), Nasfim Haque (BBC3), Joe Alexander (Boiler Room), Andy Mundy Castle (DocHearts), Sam Barcroft (Barcroft Media)

Session Producer Danielle Graham (Story Vault TV)

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch

Session Producer Fozia Khan (BBC) & Mahi Iftikhar

(Twenty Twenty Television)

Session Producer Kerry Goode & Ali Laurie (UKTV)

Chair

Nikki Bedi (Presenter)

Chair

Jes Wilkins (Firecracker)

Speakers

Anita Rani (Presenter), Mehreen Baig (The Trouble with Pakistani Men), Mobeen Azhar (BBC)

Speakers

Hilary Rosen, Helen Nightingale (UKTV)

Channel 4 First Cut Pitch

The Channel 4 Interview: Guy Martin

Mon 11 June / 14:30 / Crucible Adelphi

Mon 11 June / 15:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Mon 11 June / 16:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Mon 11 June / 18:00 / Sheffield City Hall Ballroom / £13/ £11

What does it take to work with Canadian producers, access Canadian funding, and get your documentary commissioned by Canadian broadcasters? This focused lightning session will focus on everything you need to know about working with Canada and feature some of the biggest names in Canadian documentary production.

Festival Pass holders only.

Filmmakers will pitch their idea for a short documentary about poverty, that seeks to reframe the issue and engage a mainstream audience ‘beyond the choir’. A panel of representatives from JRF and the Guardian will award up to three £20,000 commissions and a global release via theguardian.com. Come to hear and meet exciting filmmaking talent for future collaborations.

Festival Pass holders only.

Shortlisted directors vie to prove that they are ready to take on the challenge of an hour-long, post watershed documentary for Channel 4. Each director will introduce, show and discuss their films in front of a live audience and a panel of executive producers and filmmakers. Come and discover the next wave of exciting talent.

Festival Pass holders only.

We welcome the Grimsby-born TV adventurer, motorcycle racer and lorry mechanic to the Festival for the first time. With inspirational documentaries, produced by North One, spanning world speed records, Formula 1 motor racing and his First World War tank build, this will be a rare opportunity to hear first hand about Guy’s passion for engineering and the thrill of speed.

Chair

Jane Mote (The Whickers)

Session Producer David Alamouti (Inovi)

Speakers

Charlotte Engel (CBC Television), Marin Lea (NFB. Pro. What Is Democracy p.64), Nathalie Clermont (Canada Media Fund)

Panel

Charlie Phillips (Guardian), Abigail Scott Paul (JRF), Lindsay Poulton (Guardian), Campbell Robb (JRF), Sean McAllister (Dir. A Northern Soul p.50)

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Mon 11 June / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Collaborating with Canada: Creating, Commissioning and Funding

108

Mon 11 June

Pitch Producer

Rita Daniels (Channel 4)

Session Producer Tom Porter (Channel 4)

Panel

Jonathan Smith (GMX), John Douglas (72 Films), Colette Cadman

Speaker

Guy Martin

109

Talks & Sessions Vicky McClure talks Dementia & Music

BBC Northern Docs Pitch

Mon 11 June / 19:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio / £10/ £8

Tues 12 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

The star of This is England and Broadchurch will discuss her new BBC series Vicky McClure: My Dementia Choir (Curve Media), which explores our understanding of how music therapy can help dementia sufferers.

The BBC is on a mission to create new collaborations with talented filmmakers from the north of England. Shortlisted directors will pitch in front of a live audience and panel of BBC commissioners and executives for a documentary commission for BBC Three.

Meet exciting northern filmmaking talent looking for support and funding for their films.

Festival Pass holders only.

This will be a Dementia Friendly event, with the lights a little brighter than usual and the sound lowered a touch. Attendees are welcome to come and go as they please.

Craig Hunter (BBC)

Speakers

Vicky McClure, Camilla Lewis (Curve Media)

Tue 12 June / 10:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B The crisis facing British prisons is rarely out of the news. However, it remains challenging to tell this story, with almost no access granted in recent years. From piecing together narratives using illegal footage to sending undercover journalists into prisons, we’ll discuss how to capture the inside story of British prisons from the outside.

And with the Ministry of Justice now opening their doors to cameras for two Channel 4 series, what are the opportunities and pitfalls when we are trusted with sensitive access in complex and challenging institutions?

Festival Pass Holders only.

Session Producers Alisa Pomeroy & Laila Bouromane (Channel 4) Speakers

Simon Ford (Exec Pro. The Secret Life of Prisons), Paddy Wivell (Dir. Durham Prison (WT)

Session Producer Oriana Franceschi (Sheffield Doc/Fest) Panel

Abigail Priddle (BBC), Damian Kavanagh (BBC), Fran Baker (Blakeway North)

Algorithms & Discovery: Are Bots the Next Content Curators?

Tues 12 June / 10:00 / Crucible Adelphi

As people increasingly create and discover content through social media and VOD and commissioning is increasingly data-driven, is human content curation doomed to be replaced by algorithms and bots? These issues are increasingly relevant not just commercially for documentary makers trying to reach an audience, but for audiences themselves trying to understand the authenticity of what they are watching.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Session Producer Nick Crossland (Joi Polloi) Speakers

Caitlin Meek-O’Connor (Little Dot Studios), Farida Viz (University of Sheffield), Max Gogarty (BBC3)

Talks & Sessions

Tue 12 June

Commissioning: Specialist Factual

Commissioning: Factual Entertainment

Tue 12 June / 10:00/ Netflix Crucible Studio

Tue 12 June / 12:00 / Netflix Crucible Studio

How do we keep specialist factual in the spotlight when the genre is facing more competition than ever? With budgets squeezed, are commissioners still investing in the genre and what are they doing to try and reach a broader audience? Can this genre of programming ever be binge-worthy?

Festival Pass Holders only.

Networks International)

Factual Entertainment programming aims to explore the world through broadest appeal. Our panel of commissioners discuss what works for their channels and approaches for creating the next big formats and series. Are the well known on-screen talent and super formats - available only to the super indies - necessary to draw large audiences? Or, can the smaller producers and new talent prevail?

Festival Pass Holders only.

Chair

Kim Shillinglaw (Endemol Shine)

Session Producer Patricia Doherty (True Vision Yorkshire)

Speakers

Shaminder Nahal (Channel 4), Tom McDonald (BBC), Lucy Willis (Channel 5), Hamish Mykura (National Geographic)

Chair

Neil Smith (Boundless)

Speakers

Kelly Webb-Lamb (Channel 4), David Brindley (BBC), Kate Teckman (ITV), Adrian Padmore (Channel 5)

Session Producers Victoria Noble & Rob Holloway (Discovery

The Doc Makers Guide to Real Britain

SOS Planet Earth: Ways for Docs to Save the World

Tues 12 June / 12:00 / Crucible Adelphi

Tue 12 June / 12:00 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

How do we tell the story of everyday Britain? Can the television establishment, viewed by many as largely middle class, ever truly represent the nation on TV? How do we make these stories entertaining and authentic? And is class the final elephant in the room? As well as factual, this session will touch on other genres including comedy and drama.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Broadcasters are often criticised for not doing enough to bring environmental issues to primetime television and with broadest appeal.

With the success of Blue Planet II we debate what role television should play in raising awareness of environmental issues. Are blue chip series the only way to attract an audience or is there space to support lower budget, more nimble content?

Festival Pass Holders only.

Session Producer Rich Turner (Channel 5)

Chair and speakers to be confirmed.

Visit www.sheffdocfest.com for more information.

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Breaking into Prisons

110

Mon 11 – Tue 12 June

Session Producer Jane McMullen (BBC) Chair

Matt Baker (The One Show, BBC)

Speakers

Tom McDonald (BBC), Wendy Rattray (Hello Halo), Mark Galloway (IBT) 111

Talks & Sessions The Boiler Room Pitch

Inside National Geographic: Meet the Commissioners

Talks & Sessions Commissioning: Arts

Tue 12 June

Original Documentaries Preview with Channel 5

Tue 12 June / 12:15 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Tue 12 June / 14:30 / Crucible Adelphi

Tues 12 June / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Tue 12 June / 16:30 / Crucible Adelphi

Champion of music culture across the world, Boiler Room is looking to commission energetic films focused on dance music and hedonism.

Selected filmmakers will pitch their short film ideas to win a £10,000 commission. This will be a chance to meet both emerging and established filmmaking talent.

Festival Pass Holders only.

National Geographic is enjoying global success with its strategy of premium programming, and investing more than ever in innovative factual and drama content. Hear from Hamish Mykura, EVP of Programming and Development, and Commissioning Editors Carolyn Payne and Bernadette McDaid, along with recently commissioned producers and what it takes to work with National Geographic in the era of ‘fewer, bigger, better’.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Art can celebrate the diverse range of a country’s culture and look outwards to reflect upon shifting global tensions. Arts commissioners will outline their ambitions for the future of Arts programming, discuss how their respective slates appeal to both broad and niche audiences, and explore whether or not broadcasters have a responsibility to nurture and preserve the Arts for future generations.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Guy Davies, Commissioning Editor, Factual for Channel 5 introduces a sneak peak of exciting, upcoming Channel 5 documentary singles and series and Q&A with the programme makers, including a couple of special surprises.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Kat Chirnside

Panel

Stephen Mai, Joe Walker, Anais Bremond, Joe Alexander - (Boiler Room)

Session Producer Carolyn Payne (National Geographic) Speakers

Tue 12 June / 14:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio The documentary heads from the major UK broadcasters outline their 2018/19 visions and strategies for documentary and factual programming. They will set out commissioning opportunities, discuss pertinent issues such as diversity and representation, discuss what is working (and not) for their respective channels and explore the continued pressure from the increasingly prolific digital platforms including Netflix and Amazon.

Festival Pass Holders only.

Session Producer Sally Ogden (True Vision Yorkshire) Chair

Narinder Minhas (Sugar Films)

Speakers

Alisa Pomeroy (Channel 4), Clare Sillery (BBC), Jo Clinton-Davis (ITV), Daniel Pearl (Channel 5)

Hamish Mykura, Carolyn Payne, Bernadette McDaid (National Geographic)

The Whickers Pitch

Session Producer Suzy Gregg (The Garden Productions) Chair

Celia Taylor (Mentorn Media)

Speakers

Emma Cahusac (BBC), Shaminder Nahal (Channel 4), Barbara Lee (Sky Arts)

Battle of the Boxsets

Talks & Sessions

Talks & Sessions

Pitch Producer

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

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Tue 12 June

Doc/Question Time: Big Data, Dark PR & Whistleblowing

Tue 12 June / 14:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room A

Tue 12 June / 16:30 / ITV Town Hall Reception Room B

Tue 12 June / 16:30 / Netflix Crucible Studio

Who will be awarded £80,000 to make their first feature-length documentary? Five emerging directors pitch their non-fiction projects to a panel of industry judges and an audience of key decision-makers, all looking to meet future filmmaking talent. Come and bear witness as the legacy of pioneering broadcaster Alan Whicker brings another exceptional documentary idea to life.

Festival Pass Holders only.

At a time when binge-watching has become the new guilty pleasure and when Netflix, Amazon and other streaming giants are leading in curating some of the best-in-show box sets - how are public service broadcasters responding? And how will filmmakers get their passion project box sets commissioned and on air today?

Festival Pass Holders only.

Charlotte Desai (Channel 4)

Documentary and journalism have a powerful tradition of exposing abuses of power. We examine how the pursuit of truth and justice is affected by the issues of dark PR and data mining, including a discussion about the Cambridge Analytica Facebook scandal. In the era of big data and the new social ‘arms race’, what legislation is needed to protect the individual, what are the best new ways for investigative stories, and when do the regulations go too far?

Free and open to all.

David Glover (72 Films)

Session Producer Anna Hall (True Vision)

Pitch Producer

Phoebe Hall (The Whickers)

Panel

Paul Pauwels (EDN), Seyi Rhodes (Presenter & Journalist), Harriet Armston-Clarke (TVF International), Jane Mote (The Whickers), Klara Grunning (Swedish Film Institute)

Session Producers Madonna Benjamin & Chair

Speakers to be confirmed.

Visit www.sheffdocfest.com for more information.

Chair

Prash Naik (media lawyer)

Speakers

Dorothy Byrne (Channel 4), Carole Cadwalladr (Guardian), Callum Macrae (Dir. The Ballymurphy Precedent p.45)

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Talks & Sessions The BBC Interview: Mary Beard Tues 12 June / 18:00 / Sheffield City Hall Ballroom / £13/ £11 Mary Beard; public intellectual, feminist and bestselling author, is one of TVs most popular presenters. In conversation with Charlotte Moore, Director of Content at the BBC, Mary will discuss her broadcasting career, which includes copresenting the documentary series Civilisations along with David Olusoga and Simon Schama as well as her most recent book, Women & Power: A Manifesto, hailed as a modern feminist classic.

Session Producer Simon Young (BBC)

Talks & Sessions

Chair

Charlotte Moore (BBC)

Speaker

Mary Beard

 Exchange on Tudor Square Everyone is welcome at Exchange: Head Space for special talks, films and activity, with a focus on your mental health.

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Tue 12 June

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Hundreds of industry Decision Makers come to Sheffield every year seeking collaborations with established and emerging talent. Doc/Fest has a wide range of initiatives to support the creation of new documentaries.

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Marketplace & Talent Marketplace Sessions: Round Tables

Mon 11 June / 10:00 – 19:00 Tue 12 June / 10:00 – 15:30

You are invited to meet with Decision Makers through informal group discussions over the course of 90 minutes. Each session will reflect a contemporary theme in the industry. Open to all Festival Pass holders but places are limited.

Apply via the Doc/Fest website.

A standby queue will be in operation on the door.

Doc/Dinner is a special evening during the Festival for dinner & doc-chats between established industry leaders and emerging talent.

A chance for mutual learning and connection. This year’s dinner will bring commissioners, producers and mentors, including Doc/Dinner founder Reggie Yates, together with 20 young filmmakers. The evening will be MC’d

by BBC Radio 1Xtra Presenter Mim Shaikh. Places at Doc/Dinner are limited and filmmakers aged 18-25 can apply to take part on the Doc/Fest website.

Marketplace & Talent

Marketplace & Talent

MeetMarket

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Doc/Dinner

Alternate Realities Market

Mon 11 – Tue 12 June / 9:00 – 18:00

Mon 11 – Tue 12 June / 9:00 – 18:00

MeetMarket is one of the world’s largest documentary pitching forums offering filmmakers the opportunity to meet with hundreds of international funders, broadcasters, distributors, and exhibitors.

Doc/Fest offers a unique way to pitch your projects through matchmade meetings between filmmakers and Decision Makers for creative and financial discussions.

Projects include features, series and formats in varying stages of development/production. Each year 65 projects are selected from over 500 submissions.

Alternate Realities Market, now in its fifth edition, is a forum for exploring the creation, funding, distribution, exhibition, and marketing of interactive, immersive and virtual reality projects. Run in tandem with the MeetMarket, 25 selected projects will be offered a chance to pitch their idea to commissioners, distributors, exhibitors, digital agencies, brands, third sector representatives and experienced digital producers.

Future Producer School Now in its fifth year, Future Producer School is a six-month training initiative delivered in association with Bungalow Town Productions supported by Creative Skillset, in which ambitious and dedicated emerging producers receive mentoring and training from some of the most exciting producers in the documentary industry today. The programme comprises of a three-day residential workshop with training from leading producers and experts, followed by bespoke one-to-one mentoring. The Future Producers then take their learning to Doc/Fest’s world-leading Marketplace and are hosted in a session of match-made meetings with international Decision Makers.

Meet the Execs Meet the Execs is a unique opportunity for new and emerging documentary filmmakers to connect with experienced Executive Producers for expert guidance and advice about a specific film project.

Coordinated by the European Documentary Network (EDN), successful applicants will be given pitch-training and paired with an experienced industry EP for projectspecific feedback and pointers on development, where to go to next, and how to improve the chances of securing funding and distribution.

Advance application via the Doc/Fest website required.

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A Doc/Lover wristband gives you access to 12 film screenings plus discounted rates on selected Special Events.

Visit sheffdocfest.com to purchase yours.

Doc/Fest’s parties and receptions are the essential events in the industry calendar for bringing the documentary family together, with the chance to meet new collaborators over a drink and on the dance floor. You never know who you’ll meet...

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Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Thursday 7 June

Live Cinema Summit Drinks

Party Like It’s 1994

Scottish Delegation Drinks

Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

Thu 7 June / 17:00–18:30 / Trafalgar Warehouse Join us for the opening of the Alternate Realities exhibition in our new home, Trafalgar Warehouse. Experience a specially curated selection of immersive and interactive works and meet some of the artists in our world leading showcase of digital storytelling.

Opening Night Drinks

Friday 8 June

Exchange Breakfast Reception

Fri 8 June / 10:00–11:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square / Free (Open to all) Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

Igloo Vision Reception

Fri 8 June / 17:00–18:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square Come and visit Exchange on Tudor Square for drinks courtesy of Igloo Vision. It’s a great opportunity to catch-up with people and trends from the world of immersive film and entertainment.

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University of Stirling Factual TV Drinks

Fri 8 June / 19:00–20:30 / Winter Garden Help the University of Stirling celebrate the launch of their new factual television Masters programme. To find out more about the course, their student film competition (cash prize) and festival of factual in October, come and join them for drinks and gentle networking at the beautiful Winter Garden.

Film Hub North Drinks Reception

Fri 8 June / 19:30–21:00 / The Holt Film Hub North is a members’ organisation that supports independent film exhibition and production in the North of England through funding schemes, network building and training opportunities. The Hub team invites you to join them for a drink to toast the vibrant future of film in the North and to meet-up with programmers and filmmakers from throughout the region.

Too Beautiful World Premiere Drinks: Cuban Evening

Fri 8 June / 20:30–22:00 / Tamper Seller’s Wheel Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight (p.43) is a story about acceptance, female empowerment and boxing beautifully portrayed by internationally recognised director Maceo Frost. At the reception you will meet the main character Namibia the Cuban boxing star of Havana, Director Maceo Frost, the documentary team from Adidas as well as rest of the crew. Supported by Adidas and Revolver Films Amsterdam.

Fri 8 June / 22:00–02:00 / Theatre Deli ‘94 saw the first ever Edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest and to celebrate, we’re throwing it back with some classic club tracks and headbanging tunes. So whether you’re a rocker or a raver, hop into the Doc/Fest time machine and get ready to party like it’s 1994.

Saturday 9 June Exchange Breakfast Reception

Sat 9 June / 10:00–11:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square / Free (Open to all) Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

BFI Doc Society Fund: Meet the Team

Sat 9 June / 11:30–13:00 / Hadfield Hall Cutlers Hall Doc Society is the BFI’s delegate partner for the UK’s documentary funds and they are looking out for the most creative, diverse docmakers and doc-curious folk in the country, and they are keen to meet filmmakers from all backgrounds and walks of life. Join the BFI Doc Society Fund team for brunch and find out how we can collaborate and continue to build a thriving UK documentary community.

Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

Sat 9 June / 19:00–20:30 / Winter Garden To celebrate the UK Premiers of Mark Cousins’ The Eyes of Orson Welles (p.51) and Finlay Pretsell’s Time Trial (p.123) please join us and meet the Scottish Delegation of producers, filmmakers and screen executives present in Sheffield. Learn more about their films and about Scotland as a first-class place for documentary filmmaking and co-production.

Creative Scotland is the national funder for film in Scotland.

Scottish Documentary Institute

Meet the Filmmakers Drinks supported by Molinare

Sat 9 June / 19:30–21:00 / Birdhouse Molinare and the Doc/Fest Film Programme team welcome you to raise a glass or two to the talented directors and producers behind this year’s Film Programme. Share stories over a drink and share the rest of your week with these awesome filmmakers.

Parties & Social

Parties & Social

Thu 7 June / 20:45–01:00 / City Hall Ballroom / £5 (open to all) Help us kick off the Festival in style, with drinks and dancing as we celebrate our 25th Edition.

Fri 8 June / 18:00–19:00 / Curzon Rooftop Join Live Cinema UK to celebrate the first day of the Live Cinema Summit at Doc/Fest.

Meet with artists and practitioners over a drink to discuss the latest in immersive and experiential moving image.

Canon Drinks Reception

Sat 9 June / 20:00–21:30 / The Holt The team from Canon are delighted to welcome industry delegates attending Sheffield Doc/Fest for drinks at Holt on Saturday night, which follows the Canon supported cinematography session as part of the Festival’s Craft Summit. Come and meet the Canon team to discuss your forthcoming documentary projects.

Sat 9 June / 17:00–18:00 / Town Hall Lobby To conclude the 2018 Craft Summit, the Documentary Campus team invites you to mingle with speakers, Documentary Campus Master school alumni and this year’s participants.

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Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Sunday 10 June Exchange Breakfast Reception

Sat 9 June / 21:00–02:00 / Doc Society Clubhouse at DINA Let me take you to the place where membership’s a smiling face… brush shoulders with the (documentary) stars. Where strangers take you by the hand and welcome you to their (British) wonderland from beneath their Panamas. Club Doc Soc drinks are cheap, fun and sunshine there’s enough for everyone.

All delegates welcome, arrive early for a cocktail on the house. Suntan not included.

4:3 X Boiler Room Present: Shakedown After Party

Sat 9 June / 22:00–02:00 / Theatre Deli / £10 (open to all) Boiler Room’s new film channel 4:3 is proud to host the after party for Leilah Weinraub’s Shakedown (p.57). Vogue icon Ian Isiah aka Big Shugga will be flying in specially from NYC for an exclusive UK performance, alongside London’s queer POC collective. Turn up BBZ.

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Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks supported by Immerse UK

Sun 10 June / 10:00–11:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square / Free (Open to all) Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

Sun 10 June / 19:00–21:00 / Trafalgar Warehouse Following the Alternate Realities Summit, join the Sheffield Doc/Fest team, Immerse UK and fellow delegates for a chance to meet the artists behind immersive, VR and interactive artworks in this year’s Alternate Realities Exhibition.

South African Delegation Drinks

British Council Drinks Reception

Sun 10 June / 16:30–18:00 / Curzon Rooftop Come and join the South African delegates who’ll be bringing sunshine and inspiration to the Curzon Rooftop Bar and Terrace.

Before the drinks event the delegations are hosting a discussion panel New Devices – New Voices: Pan-African Experiences at Crucible Adelphi. Both events are supported by the DFA (Documentary Filmmakers’ Association of South Africa) in collaboration with the Department of Trade and Industry.

Marketplace & Talent Drinks

Sun 10 June / 17:00–19:00 / Hadfield Hall, Cutlers Hall Rounding off Sales & Distribution Summit, this reception offers a chance to get to know Decision Makers and fellow filmmakers better.

We welcome everyone involved in the Sales & Distribution Summit, MeetMarket, Alternate Realities Market and all Marketplace & Talent initiatives. The team will be present so do come by for a drink, say hello and tell us about your documentary projects – we’re here to help get them made!

Sun 10 June / 18:00–19:30 / Tamper Seller’s Wheel Come and meet British Council Film and the leading international documentary film professionals they have brought from around the world to attend this year’s edition of Sheffield Doc/Fest.

Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks

Sun 10 June / 18:30–20:00 / Winter Garden Come and join the members of The Grierson Trust board for a convivial get together and the opportunity to meet the talented young filmmakers who are part of the 2018 Grierson DocLab.

Warp Presents: Gaika + Friends

Sun 10 June / 22:00–02:00 / The Leadmill / £10 (open to all) Following Gaika’s electric live score to Khalik Allah’s Black Mother (p.66), come down to Sheffield’s iconic gig venue The Leadmill for some dancing and drinks soundtracked by Gaika and a slew of Warp DJs.

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Monday 11 June Exchange Breakfast Reception

Mon 11 Jun / 10:00–11:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square / Free (Open to all) Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

New Talent Drinks presented by The University of Hertfordshire

Mon 11 Jun / 17:00–18:30 / Curzon Rooftop Come and visit Curzon’s Rooftop Bar and Terrace and kick off your Monday night with drinks courtesy of University of Hertfordshire.

It’s a fantastic chance to connect with new and upcoming talent, industry guests, local filmmakers and fellow documentary lovers.

UKTV Drinks Reception

Parties & Social

Parties & Social

WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

Parties & Social

Mon 11 Jun / 18:00–19:30 / Tamper Seller’s Wheel Join UKTV’s commissioners for an early evening drink at Tamper. It will be an opportunity to meet the team responsible for the broadcaster’s growing slate of factual and factual entertainment UKTV Originals and network with Festival delegates.

ITV Drinks

19:30–21:00 / The Holt The ITV Factual team invites delegates to raise a glass to documentaries at The Holt.

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Parties & Social

Indivdual tickets can be purchased for selected events where stated. All other events are available to Festival Pass holders.

Tuesday 12 June

Funders, Sponsors & Partners Principal Funders, Sponsors and Partners

Exchange Breakfast Reception

Tue 12 Jun / 10:00–11:00 / Exchange on Tudor Square / Free (Open to all) Breakfast is on us at the Exchange on Tudor Square. Fuel up for the day on great coffee, croissants, and connect with other Festival attendees – get there quick, whilst the pastries last!

BBC Arts Drinks

Mon 11 Jun / 20:00–21:30 / Winter Garden The Irish Film Board (Bord Scannán na hÉireann) is delighted to invite you to the Irish Reception at Sheffield Doc/Fest to celebrate the Irish work screening, and allow you to meet and network with the large Irish delegation of filmmakers in attendance.

Channel 4 Party

Mon 11 Jun / 21:30–02:00 / Foundry The Channel 4 Party is back due to popular demand, this year at Sheffield’s Foundry.

Come join the C4 team for a drink or three.

Awards Ceremony

Tue 12 Jun 20:00–21:00 / Sheffield City Hall Ballroom / £5 (open to all) As Doc/Fest’s 25th Edition draws to a close, we honour the very best of the Festival, including the reveal of our Audience Award winner as chosen by you. This year we’re thrilled to welcome back BBC Radio Sheffield’s Paulette Edwards as our host.

Closing Night Party: Guilty Pleasures

Tue 12 Jun 21:30–02:00 / Plug Our 25th Edition will come to a climax with our traditional Guilty Pleasures party.

Celebrate the end of your Doc/Fest journey with wild dancing and join in with Nordisk Panorama and our Nordic filmmakers from 9:30pm for free vodka to kick the night off.

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Sponsors

Funders, Sponsors & Partners

Parties & Social

Irish Delegation Reception

Tue 12 Jun 18:30–20:00 / Tamper Seller’s Wheel A chance to meet the BBC Arts Commissioning team. Authored arts documentaries have flourished at the BBC for as long as they have existed, and the world’s longest running arts strand Arena is a byword for excellence, originality and maverick wit. BBC Arts invites you to celebrate this heritage and offers the chance for creative arts documentary makers to discuss ideas with its Commissioning team in a relaxed environment.

Major Sponsors

Media Partners

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Index 4:3 X Boiler Room Present: Shakedown After Party A Journey to the Fumigated Towns A Northern Soul A Story on Every Corner: Images of America Today

124 60 26, 50 105

Better Known Truths: Considering Creative Practice

Doc/Rhythm Shorts

55

Head Space Shorts

34

123

Doc/Think Shorts

60

Head Space Virtual Reality

35

Black Mother

66

Doc/Vision Shorts

66

Hold the World with David Attenborough

87

Black Mother with live score from Gaika

30

Docsersise 1

78, 79

Home Games

52

56

Docsersise 2

79, 80

Homo Machina

87

BFI Doc Society Fund: Meet the Team

84

A Thousand Girls Like Me

44

Blue Note Records: Beyond the Notes

A Woman Captured

45

Boys Who Like Girls

60

Documentary Subjects: How Close Do You Go?

98

Against the Tides

73

Breaking into Prisons

110

Documenting Grenfell: a Problem in Plain Sight

104

35

Brian Reed and Richard Miron in conversation

Alastair Campbell in conversation

35

67

I, Dolours

33

39

Electric Avenue Shorts 1

75

Iain Forsyth & Jane Pollard and George Mackay talk DOUBLETHINK and more

123

Electric Avenue Shorts 2

75

British Council Drinks Reception

Alternate Realities Market

118

Bruce Lee & the Outlaw

Alternate Realities Preview Drinks

122

Canon Drinks Reception

Alternate Realities Summit

103

Central Airport THF

61

Está Todo Bien

61

Alternate Realities Summit Afternoon Session: Union

85

Central Bus Station

40

Eventise! Experiential Events

96

Alternate Realities Summit Closing Remarks

85

Channel 4 First Cut Pitch

109

Every King Tide

92

Alternate Realities Summit Morning Session: Portrayals

84

Channel 4 Party

126

Ex-Shaman

Alternate Realities Summit Welcome

84

Chicken & Egg Pictures’ Accelerator Lab Pitch

103

Exchange Breakfast Reception

Alternate Realities: Meet the Makers

34, 35

An Evening with Mark Cousins: 30 Images in the Dark

35, 51 105

Closing Night Party: Guilty Pleasures Cocorico Monsieur Poulet Collaborating with Canada: Creating, Commissioning and Funding

125

34 126 75 108

Exchange on Tudor Square: Head Space

97

Face to Face (Festival Commission)

87

Fake News Fairytale

46

99

Commander Arian

Antigone

55

Commissioning: Arts

113

Female Human Animal

Arboretum Cycle

66

Commissioning: Documentary for Broadcast

112

Festival Film!

Archive and Live Scores

96

Commissioning: Factual Entertainment

111

Film Hub North Drinks Reception

79

Commissioning: Specialist Factual

111

Arena: Night and Day Art 50: Art in a Post Brexit Britain with Kirsty Wark

108

62 98

71

For the Birds

51

123

Free Screen

78-80

55

Craft Summit Drinks presented by Documentary Campus

Ashore

51

Craft Summit presented by Documentary Campus

Audience Participation and Tech

96

Critics Forum: The Art of Writing About Non-Fiction Film

Authentically Us: We’re Still Here

91

Desolation Center

Authenticity and Diverstiy in Storytelling

84

AVA Library

77

Desolation Center with live performance from Thurston Moore (Sonic Youth)

27

Disorder

76

BAFTA Masterclass: Matthew Heineman

102

Battle of the Boxsets

113

BBC Arts Drinks

126

BBC Northern Docs Pitch

110

Before Father Gets Back

39

Belongings

86

Berlin Paris Terror

91

Best of Times, Worst of Times: The Future of Feature Documentaries

106

122

Focus on Cinematography - New Ways of Seeing?

Ashes and Embers

34

67 78, 79, 80

Flow

Counting Tiles

126

78, 80

86

85

Awe Filled Vision of The World

Fathers, Sisters and Misters

Cosmic Top Secret

Artist Spotlight: Gabo Arora

Awards Ceremony

32-35

Expanded and Live - Audiovisual Performance

Animated Documentary - Frame by Frame

45

62 122, 123, 124, 125, 126

98 103 56

Distribution Case Study: Unrest

100

Distribution for VR

101

Doc/Adventure Shorts Doc/Dinner

39 119

Freedom to Play: Pros & Cons of Filmmaking as Research

106

Future Producer School

119

Game Girls

52

Generation Wealth

56

German Class

62

Ghosthunter

35, 40

Going South

67

Goodness Gracious Me: Asian Representation from Grannies to Jihadis

109

Igloo Vision Reception In the Ruins of Baalbeck Studios Infinite Football Inside a Mind at War

76 79, 80 46 34 122 71 34, 63 88

Inside National Geographic: Meet the Commissioners

112

Inside UKTV: Meet the Commissioners

109

Into The Okavango

41

Irena Baque Retro

79

Irish Delegation Reception

126

Is Anna OK?

88

ITV Drinks

125

Jamal Edwards MBE: SBTV, Music & Mental Health Khalik Allah: Exploring a New Film Language

34, 104 104

Kinshasa Makambo

46

Korean Pitching Day

105

La Commune (Paris, 1871)

68

Ladies with a Lens 1

78, 79

Ladies with a Lens 2

79, 80

Laila At The Bridge

47

Last Year in Utopia

68

Life After Hate: Meeting a Monster

92

Life in VR - California Coast

88

Live Cinema Summit Live Cinema Summit Drinks Lost Warrior

96 122 47

Love Means Zero

41

Lovers of the Night

52 85

Grenfell

73

Making a New Reality

Doc/Dispatch

44

Grenfell: Our Home

92

Manic VR

89

Doc/Expose Shorts

44

Grierson Trust New Talent Drinks

Margaret Tait: A Century

68

125

Doc/Fest Mix 1

78, 79

Gun No. 6

74

Marketplace & Talent Drinks

124

Doc/Fest Mix 2

80

Hale County This Morning, This Evening

67

Marketplace Drinks

101

Doc/Love Shorts

50

Harmony

56

Marketplace Sessions: Round Tables

119

Have You Seen The Listers?

52

McQueen

Doc/Question Time: Big Data, Dark PR & Whistleblowing

113

Index

Index

América

Claire Simon in conversation

Human Rights, Human Wrongs

DOUBLETHINK

110

50

Horse of Mud

Doel

Algorithms & Discovery: Are Bots the Next Content Curators?

Amal

128

Index

68 129

Index Me, Myself and I Meet the Alternate Realities Artists Drinks supported by Immerse UK Meet the Artists of Doc/Fest 2018

78, 79 125 97

Meet the Distributors

101

Meet the Execs

119

Meet the Filmmakers Drinks supported by Molinare

123

Meet the Sales Agents

101

MeetMarket

118

Milford Graves Full Mantis

34, 57

Mim Shaikh (BBC Radio 1Xtra) and Karen Gabay in conversation

35

Mind Games, Comedy Quiz

34

Minding the Gap

53

Mothers, Brothers and Others

78, 79

Munroe Bergdorf: Women, Gender & Activism

102

Music Docs: New Forms & Platforms

102

Music When The Lights Go Out My Big Break

69 102 28

New Devices & New Voices: Pan-African Experiences

105

New Talent Drinks presented by The University of Hertfordshire

125

New/UK Shorts

72

No Greater Law

74

Nowness

104 79, 80

Obscuro Barroco

69

Of Fathers and Sons

47

On Her Shoulders

47

On the Bench 1

78, 79

On the Bench 2

79, 80

On the Ground at Grenfell + Q&A One or Two Questions

35 48

Onwards & Upwards: The Future of Documentary Shorts

108

Opening Night Drinks

122

Original Documentaries Preview with Channel 5

113

Our New President

63

Out

53

Over the Limit

42

Panoptic

72

Parallel Planes

57

Party Like It’s 1994

123

People’s Republic of Desire

53

Phantom Cowboys

42

Porton Down

89

Poverty in the UK: New Approaches to Storytelling

The Colourist - Making a Grade Great

99

Time Trial

Power Hour 1

78, 79

107

The Congo Tribunal

45

Times Up: The Industry Response to Bullying & Harassment

35, 43 106

Power Hour 2

78, 80

The Dark Room

29

Too Beautiful World Premiere Drinks: Cuban Evening

122

Punk Voyage

57

The Day the World Changed

87

Too Beautiful: Our Right to Fight

43

Radio Atlas: A Lunkhead Among The Stars

64

The Distant Barking of Dogs

46

Tranny Fag

58

Random Acts Real Live Reeps One presents: We Speak Music Live

78, 79

The Doc Makers Guide to Real Britain

96

The Dread

27

111

Tranny Fag with live performance from Linn da Quebrada

30

34, 61

Turning 18

53

The Drift

71

Turtle Rock

Resident Advisor: Beats 1

78, 79

The Eyes of Orson Welles

51

UKTV Drinks Reception

Resident Advisor: Beats 2

78, 80

70 125

The Game

40

Under The Wire

72

The Gospel of Eureka

62

University of Stirling Factual TV Drinks

Rough/Ready

74

The Incredible Playable Show

Round Tables - Concepts and Ideas

97

The Insufferable Groo

Round Tables - Funding and Exhibition

97

The ITV Interview: Sir Trevor McDonald

107

Victory Day

70

Sad Song of Touha

76

The Joseph Rowntree Foundation x Guardian Pitch

108

Vienna Calling

43

Room for a Man

30, 85 40

Vestige Vicky McClure talks Dementia & Music

Sales & Distribution 101

100

The Journey

92

Walking Tours with Magid

Sales & Distribution Summit

100

The Lonely Battle of Thomas Reid

41

Warp Presents: Gaika + Friends

Sanctuaries of Silence

90 110

35 125

The Loss Levels

88

Watching the Detectives

49

123

The Man Who Stole Banksy

41

We Speak Music docu-series + Q&A with Reeps One

34

Sensible Data / Mixed Emotions

89

The Mighty Redcar + Q&A

35

Shakedown

57

The MOMENT

77

WHAM! British Tropical Summer Party at the Doc Society Clubhouse

Shirkers

69

The Naked Me: Personal Stories

Shirkers with live performance from Weish

29

The Pain of Others

Scottish Delegation Drinks

Silvana

93

48 122

35, 58

The Proposal

107 35, 63 63

Sleep Has Her House

69

The Real Stories Special Relationship Pitch

Social Chain’s Dominic McGregor in conversation

34

The Real Thing

106 92

SOS Planet Earth: Ways for Docs to Save the World

111

The Sandwich

76 48

Sound Design - The Art of Noise

99

The Silence of Others

Soundtracks

79

The Task

124

The Trade

48

The Trial

64

South African Delegation Drinks Spectrum Stories are Changing

78, 79 84

Strolling

78

Struggle

78, 79

Super Spectrum

78, 80

Tanzania Transit

42

Tanzania Transit with uSiSTA live pop-up

30

Terminal 3

89

The Ballymurphy Precedent

45

The BBC Interview: Mary Beard

114

The Boiler Room Pitch

112

The Channel 4 Interview: Guy Martin

109

The Cleaners

61

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107

The Voice of the Unicorn

89

The Waldheim Waltz

64

The Whickers Pitch

112

The World Unknown to You: Considering Creative Practice Thee, Thyself and Thy They Call Her Cleopatra Wong

124

What Is Democracy?

64

When Lambs Become Lions

65

When the War Comes

49

Where is Home?

90

Whispering Truth to Power Whose Story? Authentic Voices in Storytelling

49 103

Why we Film - Directors and Their Story Choices

99

Wild Relatives

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Worlds of Ursula K. Le Guin

70

Yellow Is Forbidden

59

Yemen’s Skies of Terror Young Solitude

Index

Index

Nature’s Nickelodeons

Not Another Diversity Panel!

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Index

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This Is Climate Change: Feast & Famine

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This One’s For The Ladies

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Notes 132

Si’thi soon!

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