Sheffield Doc/Fest
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Neither banal nor evil
CONTROL: A search for understanding from a survivor of Aum Shinrikyo's 1995 sarin gas attack on Tokyo's subway.
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For whom the bell tolls
CONTROL: A look into the advertising approach of politics through weaponized communication by one of the world’s most notorious public relations firms.
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«A new relationship to language and listening in cinema»: Lynne Sachs on her Sheffield Doc/Fest Retrospective
INTERVIEW: Documentary filmmaker Lynne Sachs speaks on her career as part of Sheffield Doc/Fest's «Ghosts & Apparitions» online focus.
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The dirtiest work of all?
CONTROL: The determination of a community that comes together in the name of justice.
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Silent cries and a money-driven welfare system
CAPITALISM: Midnight Family and Overseas show two very different kinds of underprivileged workers within a backdrop of our times’ ruthless capitalism.
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Into the Flames
CLIMATE: By making us witnesses to our consumption of the Earth, Anthropocene – the Human Epoch is a planetary portrait that makes room for nuanced irony and wonder, even while urging moral outcry.
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The sun sets on New York’s five boroughs
URBANISATION: A glimpse into the collective consciousness of a city and its citizens, The Hottest August offers a mirror onto the registered anxiety of contemporary survival strategy.
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SHEFFIElD Doc/FEST 2011: A good and faithful Muslim
Making and exhibiting independent documentary in the Arab world is a challenge in several distinct ways. Pamela Cohn writes about two outstanding films from the Sheffield festival. Are they calling for a more humanist, modern approach to being a faithful Muslim?
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SHEFFIELD DOC FEST 2006: Focussing on Business and Industry
The 12th Sheffield documentary festival proved as attractive as ever for the 600 delegates in attendance