Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020: The autumn line-up
David Farnor | On 10, Sep 2020
Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 will continue this autumn with a string of four weekenders running through October and November.
The annual festival, which traditionally takes place in Sheffield in June, went ahead virtually in June and July, with 31 world premieres, 15 international premieres, 5 European premieres and 40 UK premieres all streamed via a new digital platform, Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects.
That virtual event was always intended as the first half of a two-part festival, with in-person events to follow this autumn. Now, Doc/Fest has confirmed its plans for October and November, with both online and physical screenings in the mix.
Four weekender events will run fortnightly from 2nd October to 15th November. The autumn selection involves 40 films of all lengths, spanning 20 countries around the world and representing 17 spoken languages. The line-up includes 7 World Premieres, 7 International Premieres, 3 European Premieres and 19 UK Premieres.
The retrospective Reimagining the Land will take place at the Showroom Cinema in Sheffield, while the Ghosts & Apparitions exhibition will take place at Sheffield’s Site Gallery from 11th to 15th November.
As for the films streaming online and screening in person, they will be themed around the festival strands: Into the World, Rebellions, Rhyme & Rhythm and Ghosts & Apparitions. They will be joined by a series of talks, with DJ and presenter Yinka Bokinni discussing her new film in the Channel 4 interview, journalist and filmmaker Mobeen Azhar talking about his career in the BBC interview.
Film premieres will include titles from Agustina Comedi, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Jérôme Bel, Jia Zhang-Ke, Lynne Ramsay, Marc Isaacs, Mike Hoolboom, Oreet Ashery and Sofia Bohdanowicz, plus new titles from Lynne Sachs and Simplice Ganou. Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects titles cost £4.50 each and are available 2 hours after their in-person screening.
Update: Cinema closure
In light of the second England lockdown introduced on 6th November, the final weekend of DocFest screenings will take place online online, available until Thursday 26 November.
The schedule
Here’s the line-up, broken down by weekend:
Into the World – 2nd to 4th October
Films by essential directors with essential themes that take varied approaches to exploring our past, present and collective future.
Available at Showroom Cinema and online via Doc/Fest Selects until 15th October
Friday 2nd October
6PM (online from 8PM)
MEMORY IS OUR HOMELAND, Jonathan Kolodziej Durand, Canada, 2019, 90’ – UK Premiere
9PM
PLAYBACK, Agustina Comedi, Argentina, 2019, 14’ – UK Premiere
JUDY VERSUS CAPITALISM, Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2020, 62’ – UK Premiere
Saturday 3rd October
2PM (online from 4PM)
SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE, Jia Zhang-Ke, China, 2020, 112’ – UK Premiere
5.30PM (online from 7.30PM)
FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO, Lynne Sachs, USA, 2020, 74’ – International Premiere
8.30PM (online from 10.30PM)
THIS MEANS MORE, Nicolas Gourault, France, 2019, 22’ – UK Premiere
THE KIOSK, Alexandra Pianelli, France, 2019, 78’ – UK Premiere
Sunday 4th October
11AM (online from 1PM)
A JAPANESE VILLAGE, Ogawa Productions, Japan, 1982, 213’
3.45PM (online from 5.45PM)
AWAY, Teeraphan Ngowjeenanan, Thailand, 2019, 36’ – International Premiere
REMNANTS OF A REVOLUTION, Cha Escala, Philippines, 2019, 74’ – World Premiere
7PM (online from 9PM)
MONANGAMBEE, Sarah Maldoror, Algeria, 1969, 18’
Rebellions – 16th to 18th October
Films that try to decipher the world while being an agent of change: either through the promise of revolution by both collective and individual beings, as an act of resistance and protection, or as a refusal to forget.
Available at Showroom Cinema and online via Doc/Fest Selects until 29th October
Friday 16th October
6pm (online from 8pm)
Cadê Edson? / WHERE’S EDSON?, Dacia Ibiapina, Brazil, 2020, 72’ – UK Premiere
8.30pm (online from 10.30pm)
A Nossa Terra, O Nosso Altar / OUR LAND, OUR ALTAR , André Guiomar, Portugal, 2020, 77’ – World Premiere
Saturday 17th October
2pm (online from 4pm)
L’Inconnu / THE UNKNOWN, Simplice Herman Ganou, Switzerland, 2020, 12’ – UK Premiere
2pm (online from 4pm)
ANTONIO & PITI, Vincent Carelli, Wewito Pyiãki, Brazil, 2019, 78’ – European Premiere
5.30pm (online from 7.30pm)
OUTSIDE, Danielle Arbid, France, 2020, 5’
5.30pm (not available online)
THE FILMMAKER’S HOUSE, Mark Isaacs, United Kingdom, 2020, 76’ – World Premiere
8.15pm (online from 10.15pm)
THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER, Mina Keshavarez, Germany / Iran, 2020, 85’ – European Premiere
Sunday 18th October
From 12am
Les Épisodes – Printemps 2018 / EPISODES – SPRING 2019, Mathilde Girard, France, 2020, International Premiere (only online)
4.30pm (online from 6.30pm)
CAMAGROGA, Alfonso Amador, Spain, 2020, 111’ – World Premiere
7.30pm (online from 9.30pm)
BACK YARD, Arlin Golden, USA, 2019, 7’ – International Premiere
7.30pm (online from 9.30pm)
Konstrukcijas / CONSTRUCTIONS, Ilona Bruvere, Latvia, 2019, 95’ – International Premiere
Rhyme & Rhythm – 30th October to 1st November
Rhyme & Rhythm are films where cinema and other art forms meet, whether through performance, theatre, visual art or music. Each film offers encounters and inspirations to a different beat.
Available at Showroom Cinema and online via Doc/Fest Selects until 12th November
Friday 30th October
6pm (online from 8pm)
FAITH AND BRANKO + Q&A with director and a virtual performance from Faith & Branko, Catherine Harte, United Kingdom / Serbia, 2020, 82’ – World Premiere
Saturday 31st October
11am (online from 1pm)
BRING DOWN THE WALLS – 11:00. Part of our Community Screening Programme
Phil Collins, United States, Germany, 2020, 88′ – UK Premiere
5pm (online from 7pm)
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS + Q&A with director and a short pre-recorded performance from The Space Lady, Lisa Rovner, United Kingdom, 2020, 82’ – European Premiere
8pm (online from 10pm)
RETROSPECTIVE + Q&A with director, Jérôme Bel, France, 2019, 92’ – UK Premiere
Sunday 1st November
11 am (online from 1pm)
BRIGITTE, Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom, 2019, 30’
MEDIUM + Q&A with director, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina, 2020, 71’ – UK Premiere
2pm (online from 4pm)
SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE + Produce intro, Bettina Böhler, Germany, 2020, 124’ – UK Premiere.
5pm (online from 7pm)
WELCOME TO A BRIGHT WHITE LIMBO, Cara Holmes, Ireland, 2019, 11’ – International Premiere
GRACEFULLY + Director intro, Arash Eshaghi, Iran, 2019, 62’ – UK Premiere.
Ghosts & Apparitions – 13th to 14th November
More experimental films, playing with form and showcasing the dismantling of frontiers based on histories and collective memory.
Available online via Doc/Fest Selects until 26th November
FREM, Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2019, 73’ – UK Premiere
THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS, Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal, 2020, 101 min – UK Premiere (not available online)
MON AMOUR, David Teboul, France, 2019, 172’ – UK Premiere
SANTIKHIRI SONATA, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Thailand, Germany, 2019, 75’ – UK Premiere
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, Hannah Jayanti, USA, 2020, 103’ – UK Premiere
Bundle 1:
Augas Abisais / DEEP WATERS, Xacio Baño, Spain, 2020, 25’ – World Premiere
DYING UNDER YOUR EYES, Oreet Ashery, Israel / United Kingdom, 2019, 27’
地洞 / THE TUNNEL, Hui-ju Hsu, Taiwan, 2020, 30’ – International Premiere
Bundle 2:
EVERYTHING THAT IS FORGOTTEN IN A INSTANT, Richard Shpuntoff, Argentina, 2020, 71’ – UK Premiere
POINT AND LINE TO PLANE, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2020, 18’ – UK Premiere
The Arts Programme
Running in parallel to the final weekend will be an online exhibition, comprising audio, video and XR performative artworks by UK and International artists and collectives which explore current realities, a dramatised reality and an alternate reality. The artworks are available online via Doc/Fest Selects until 26th November.
Sheffield Doc/Fest goes online for 2020
8th June 2020
Sheffield Doc/Fest is going online this summer with a line-up that will showcase 115 films and pave the way for planned cinema screenings later this year.
The annual festival, which traditionally takes place in Sheffield in June, will be going ahead virtually, with 31 world premieres, 15 international premieres, 5 European premieres and 40 UK premieres.
Filmmakers and artists include Abbas Fahdel, Alison Ellwood, Andrea Testa, Anthony Baxter, Carmen Losmann, Carol Salter, Dacia Ibiapina, David Teboul, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Florence Lazar, Hanna Jayanti, Ilona Bruvere, Jérôme Bel, Jia Zhang-ke, Jonathan Perel, Kim A. Snyder, Lech Kowalski, Lynne Ramsay, Marc Isaacs, Mike Hoolboom, Nick Jordan, Oreet Ashery, Phil Collins, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Rob Curry, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Viera Čákanyová, Vincent Carelli, and Yael Bartana.
The programme will include a tribute to the late French West Indies film pioneer Sarah Maldoror, a focus on American artist Lynne Sachs and a focus on Burkina Faso filmmaker Simplice Ganou.
The festival will launch on 10th June, with the films showcased on Doc/Fest’s own streaming platform, which will be called Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects. This service will include both pay-per-view and subscription options for audiences in the UK. The films will be available online via the platform from 10th June to 10th July, while Q&As with the filmmakers in the programme, both live and pre-recorded, will take place from July to November.
BFI Player, Doc Alliance Films, The Guardian, and MUBI will also host its curated programmes at various points between July and November.
Sheffield Doc/Fest’s industry-oriented Meetmarket and Alternate Realities Talent Market pitching forums and other Marketplace activities are also taking place from 8th to 10th June. On Thursday 11th and Friday 12th June, Doc Society will host drop-in afternoons, virtually.
Online events and panels include the Mighty, Mighty Pub Quiz on 24th June, a recording of the 2020 (Egg)celerator Lab pitching session from 10th June (for industry passholders), virtual industry roundtables on 10th June, the Whickers Film & TV Funding Awards and a discussion about film festivals post-pandemic, both on 11th June, online meetings with Doc Society on 11th and 12th June, and a panel debate about documentaries post-pandemic on 25th June.
The plan is to build towards festival weekenders in Sheffield cinemas this autumn, from October to November (with dates to be announced, all subject to safe conditions).
Doc/Fest’s Alternate Realities programme, which plays with the boundaries of non-fiction, aims to take place at an exhibition in the autumn at Site Gallery. Building up to that, each artist and collective involved will share insights into their research and processes on Doc/Fest’s YouTube channel and website, starting from 6th July.
The Doc/Fest Exchange programme will launch on 10th June, also on Doc/Fest Selects, and will culminate in a three-day celebration of new work, conversations and workshops to share discoveries from the Exchange commissions. Open and free to all, the public celebration is presented and run in parallel and in dialogue with the Rebellions film strand as part of Doc/Fest’s Autumn programme in Sheffield.
From today, industry passholders will be able to access Doc/Player, an industry-oriented video library available globally until 31st August.
Festival Director Cíntia Gil said: “The crisis we are living now point, and not for the first time, to the systemic failure of institutions and nations, and their need to be equitable in their capacities to give respect to life, freedom and care. It has given us an acute sense of what needs to change and a desire for stronger bonds between us. This programme is our contribution to that: it comes from a collective effort to resist hegemonic views over cinema and its relation to the world and to our lives. It represents multiple conversations we want to continue in the near future, through different programmes and forms.”
Here’s full line-up of films by strand:
Into the World
Into the World is about all of us—the distant, the close, the intimate, the political—our worlds and their infinite appearances, challenges and dangers. Films by essential directors with essential themes that take varied approaches to exploring our past, present and collective future.
ASWANG, Alyx Ayn Arumpac, Philippines / France, 2019, 84’ – UK Premiere
BITTER BREAD, Abbas Fahdel, Lebanon / Iraq, 2019, 86’ – UK Premiere
BREADLINE, Carol Slater, United Kingdom, 2020, 11’ – World Premiere
Szarość Życia / EVERYDAY GREYNESS, Clara Kleininger, Poland, United Kingdom, 2020, 33’ – World Premiere
FLINT, Anthony Baxter, United Kingdom, 2020, 119’
گالین / GALENA Ezzatollah Parvazeh, Iran, 2020 , 27’ – World Premiere
INFLUENCE, Diana Neille, Richard Poplak, United Kingdom, 2020, 107’ – European Premiere
ISLE OF US, Laura Wadha, United Kingdom, 2020, 18’ – World Premiere
Lupita Que Retiemble la Tierra / LUPITA, Monica Wise, Mexico / USA, 2019, 21’ – International Premiere
Niña Mamá / MOTHER CHILD, Andrea Testa, Argentina, 2019, 66’ – UK Premiere
OECONOMIA, Carmen Losmann, Germany, 2020, 80’ – UK Premiere
OUR MOTHER THE MOUNTAIN, Tamar Lando, United States, 2019, 40’ – European Premiere
PLEASE HOLD THE LINE, Pavel Cuzuioc, Austria, 2020, 86’ – World Premiere
SEEKERS, Aurore Vullierme, 2019, France, 77’ – UK Premiere
El Viaje Espacial / SPACE JOURNEY, Carlos Araya Diaz, Chile, 62’ – UK Premiere
STOLEN FISH, Gosia Juszczak, Poland / United Kingdom, 2020, 30’ – WORLD PREMIERE
STOP NINETEEN, Danielle Swindells, Ireland, United Kingdom, 2019, 8’
El Secreto del Doctor Grinberg / THE SECRET OF DOCTOR GRINBERG, Ida Cuellar, Spain, 2020, 92’ – International Premiere
THE STORY OF PLASTIC, Deia Schlosberg, US, 2019, 95’ – International Premiere
THE VIEWING BOOTH, Ra’anan Alexandrowicz, Israël, US, 2019, 70’ – UK Premiere
To See You Again / VOLVERTE A VER, Carolina Corral, Mexico, 2020, 88’ – World Premiere
UNTOLD CHAOS, Giovanni Buccomino, Libya, Italy, UK, 2020, 39’ – World Premiere
US KIDS, Kim A. Snyder, United States, 2020, 98’ – UK Premiere
Vulnerabile Bellezza, VULNERABLE BEAUTY, Manuele Mandolesi, Italy, 2019, 74’ – UK Premiere
WELLSPRING, Fergus Haughton, United Kingdom, 13’ – World Premiere
Tu Crois que la Terre est Chose Morte / YOU THINK THE EARTH IS A DEAD THING, Florence Lazar, France, 2019, 70’ – UK Premiere
To be screened in Sheffield in Autumn, and online in Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects in parallel
ไกลบ้าน / AWAY, Teeraphan Ngowjeenanan, Thailand, 2019, 36’ – International Premiere
FILM ABOUT A FATHER WHO, Lynne Sachs, USA, 2020, 74’ – International Premiere
JUDY VERSUS CAPITALISM, Mike Hoolboom, Canada, 2020, 62’ – UK Premiere
MEMORY IS OUR HOMELAND, Jonathan Kolodziej Durand, Canada, 2019, 90’ – UK Premiere
Playback. Ensayo de una Despedida / PLAYBACK, Agustina Comedi, Argentina, 2019, 14’ – UK Premiere
REMNANTS OF A REVOLUTION, Cha Escala, Philippines, 2019, 74’ – World Premiere
Yi zhi you dao hai shui bian lan, SWIMMING OUT TILL THE SEA TURNS BLUE, Jia Zhang-Ke, China, 2020, 112’ – UK Premiere
Le Kiosque, THE KIOSK, Alexandra Pianelli, France, 2019, 78’ – International Premiere
THIS MEANS MORE, Nicolas Gourault, France, 2019, 22’ – UK Premiere
Tribute to Sarah Maldoror
Monangambée / MONANGAMBEE, Sarah Maldoror, Algeria, 1969, 18’
Rebellions
Films that try to decipher the world while being an agent of change: either through the promise of revolution by both collective and individual beings, as an act of resistance and protection, or as a refusal to forget. A certain idea of hospitality, how to live together, is a question raised across the strand – almost like a call for thought and change.
On Va Tout Peter / BLOW IT TO BITS, Lech Kowalski, 2019, France, 110’ – UK Premiere
Responsabilidad Empresarial / CORPORATE ACCOUNTABILITY, Jonathan Perel, Argentina, 2020, 68’ – UK Premiere
THE UNDERTAKER, Yael Bartana, Netherlands / Israel, 2020, 13’ – UK Premiere
UNITED VOICES, Hazel Falck, United Kingdom, 2019, 25’ – World Premiere
WE HAVE BOOTS, Evans Chan, US, Hong Kong, 2019, 130’ – UK Premiere
WE’RE STILL HERE, Melissa Herman, United Kingdom, 2020, 68’ – World Premiere
WELCOME TO CHECHNYA, David France, USA / Russia, 2020, 107’ – UK Premiere
YOUR MOTHERS COMFORT, Adam Golub, USA / Brazil, 2020, 75’ – World Premiere
Focus Simplice Ganou (already announced):
BAKOROMAN, Simplice Herman Ganou, Burkina-Faso / France, 2011, 62’, First Feature – UK Premiere
Le Koro du Bakoro: Naufragés du Faso / THE KORO OF BAKORO: THE SURVIVORS OF FASO, Simplice Herman Ganou, Burkina-Faso / France, 2017, 78’ – UK Premiere
To be screened in Sheffield in Autumn, and online in Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects in parallel
ANTONIO & PITI, Vincent Carelli, Wewito Pyiãki, Brazil, 2019, 78’ – European Premiere
THE ART OF LIVING IN DANGER, Mina Keshavarez, Germany / Iran, 2019, 85’ – World Premiere
BACK YARD, Arlin Golden, USA, 2019, 7’ – World Premiere
CAMAGROGA, Alfonso Amador, Spain, 2020, 111’ – World Premiere
KONSTRUKCIJAS / CONSTRUCTIONS, Ilona Bruvere, Latvia, 2019, 95’ – International Premiere
OUTSIDE, Danielle Arbid, France, 2020, 5’
THE FILMMAKER’S HOUSE, Mark Isaacs, United Kingdom, 2020, 76’ – World Premiere
L’Inconnu / THE UNKNOWN, Simplice Herman Ganou, Switzerland, 2020, 12’ – UK Premiere
Cadê Edson? / WHERE’S EDSON?, Dacia Ibiapina, Brazil, 2020, 72’ – International Premiere
Les Épisodes – Printemps 2018 / EPISODES – SPRING 2019, Mathilde Girard, France, 2020, International Premiere (online only)
Ghosts & Apparitions
Since the first glimpses of the moving image, ghosts were haunting our imaginations, including those yet to be. A ghost from then meets a ghost from now – histories and collective memory are born. And cinema: the dismantling of frontiers.
A NEW ENGLAND DOCUMENT, Che Applewhaite, USA, 2020, 16’ – World Premiere
ASCENDING BALLARD DOWN, Charlie Usher, United Kingdom, 2020, 14’ – World Premiere
CONCRETE FORMS OF RESISTANCE, Nick Jordan, United Kingdom / Lebanon, 2019, 27’- UK Premiere
Карабаш / KARABASH, Ilya Komarov, Russia, 2019, 29’ – International Premiere
Aganai / ME AND THE CULT LEADER, Atsushi Sakahara, Japan, 2020, 96’ – World Premiere
ON A CLEAR DAY YOU CAN SEE THE REVOLUTION FROM HERE, Emma Charles, Ben Evans James, Kazakhstan / United Kingdom, 2020, 65’ – UK Premiere
La Educación Sentimental / SENTIMENTAL EDUCATION, Jorge Juárez Lopez, Spain, 2019, 65’ – International Premiere
THEY WHISPER BUT SOMETIMES SCREAM, Lala Alyieva, Azerbaijan / United Kingdom, 2019, 21’ – UK Premiere
El trabajo o a quien le pertenece el mundo / WORK OR TO WHOM DOES THE WORLD BELONG, Elisa Cepedal, Spain / United Kingdom, 2019, 65’ – International Premiere
Yãmīhex: As Mulheres Espírito / YÃMĪYHEX: THE WOMEN-SPIRIT, Sueli Maxakali, Isael Maxakali, Brazil, 2019, 76’ – International Premiere
Lynne Sachs Focus
THE LAST HAPPY DAY, Lynne Sachs, USA, 2009, 37’- UK Premiere
WHICH WAY IS EAST: NOTEBOOKS FROM VIETNAM, Lynne Sachs (in collaboration with Dana Sachs), USA, 1994, 33’ – UK Premiere
YOUR DAY IS MY NIGHT, Lynne Sachs, USA, 2013, 64’- UK Premiere
THE WASHING SOCIETY, Lynne Sachs and Lizzie Olesker, USA, 2018, 44’ – UK Premiere
A MONTH OF SINGLE FRAMES, Lynne Sachs, made with and for Barbara Hammer, USA, 2019, 14’ – UK Premiere
To be screened in Sheffield in Autumn, and online in Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects in parallel
Augas Abisais / DEEP WATERS, Xacio Baño, Spain, 2020, 25’ – World Premiere
DYING UNDER YOUR EYES, Oreet Ashery, Israel / United Kingdom, 2019, 27min
Todo lo que se olvida en un instante / EVERYTHING THAT IS FORGOTTEN IN A INSTANT, Richard Shpuntoff, Argentina, 2020, 71’ – World Premiere
FREM, Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2019, 73’ – UK Premiere
A Metamorfose dos Pássaros / THE METAMORPHOSIS OF BIRDS, Catarina Vasconcelos, Portugal, 2020, 101 min – UK Premiere (not available online, screening in Sheffield only)
MON AMOUR, David Teboul, France, 2019, 172’ – UK Premiere
POINT AND LINE TO PLANE, Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2020, 18’ – UK Premiere
SANTIKHIRI SONATA, Thunska Pansittivorakul, Thailand, Germany, 2019, 75’ – UK Premiere
地洞 / THE TUNNEL, Hui-ju Hsu, Taiwan, 2020, 30’ – International Premiere
TRUTH OR CONSEQUENCES, Hannah Jayanti, USA, 2020, 103’ – UK Premiere
Rhyme & Rhythm
Rhyme & Rhythm is where cinema and other art forms meet, whether through performance – traditional and contemporary dance, and theatre; visual art – portrait photography, painting, sculpture, street art, and video art or music – from afrobeat to jazz, via Bollywood, blues, classical, electronic, gypsy folk, pop, punk, post-punk, and rumba. Each film offers encounters and inspirations to a different beat.
Macka je uvijek zenska / A CAT IS ALWAYS FEMALE, Martina Mestrovic, Tanja Vujasinovic, Croatia, 2019, 15’ – UK Premiere
ALL THE POSSIBILITIES… REFLECTIONS ON A PAINTING BY VERNON PRATT, Marsha Gordon, Louis Cherry, USA, 2019, 16’ – European Premiere
BREAKING BARRIERS – THE CASTELESS COLLECTIVE, Maja Meiners, India / Germany, 2019, 70’ – International Premiere
BRING DOWN THE WALLS, Phil Collins, USA / Germany, 2020, 88’ – UK Premiere
THE BUSINESS OF THOUGHT: A RECORDED HISTORY OF ARTISTS SPACE, Sierra Pettengill, USA, 2020, 11’ – World Premiere
ELDER’S CORNER, Siji Awoyinka, Nigeria / United States, 2020, 97’ – Online Premiere
THE GO-GO’S, Alison Ellwood, United States / Ireland / Canada, 2020, 98’ – International Premiere
KEITH HARING: STREET ART BOY, Ben Anthony, UK, 2020, 89’ – World Premiere
MATERIAL BODIES, Dorothy Allen-Pickard, UK, 2020, 4’ – World Premiere
SHUT UP SONA, Deepti Gupta, India, 2019, 85’ – UK Premiere
SOUTHERN JOURNEY (REVISITED), Rob Curry, Tim Plester, USA / United Kingdom, 2020, 75’ – World Premiere
UNIVERSE, Sam Osborn, Nicholas Capezzera, USA, 2019, 75’ – World Premiere
UPROAR, Moe Najati, Cuba, 2020, 20’ – World Premiere (pitched in MeetMarket)
THE VASULKA EFFECT, Hrafnhildur Gunnarsdottir, Iceland / Czech Republic / Denmark / Sweden, 2019, 85’ – UK Premiere
To be screened in Sheffield in Autumn, and online in Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects in parallel
BRIGITTE, Lynne Ramsay, United Kingdom, 2019, 30’
Faith i Branko / FAITH AND BRANKO, Catherine Harte, United Kingdom / Serbia, 2020, 82’ – World Premiere
Khoraman / GRACEFULLY, Arash Eshaghi, Iran, 2019, 62’ – UK Premiere
KING ROCKER, Michael Cumming, United Kingdom, 2020, 90’ – World Premiere
MEDIUM, Edgardo Cozarinsky, Argentina, 2020, 71’ – UK Premiere
Rétrospective / RETROSPECTIVE, Jérôme Bel, France, 2019, 92’ – UK Premiere
Schlingensief – In das Schweigen hineinschreien / SCHLINGENSIEF – A VOICE THAT SHOOK THE SILENCE, Bettina Böhler, Germany, 2020, 124’ – UK Premiere
SISTERS WITH TRANSISTORS, Lisa Rovner, United Kingdom, 2020, 82’ – World Premiere
WELCOME TO A BRIGHT WHITE LIMBO, Cara Holmes, Ireland, 2019, 11’ – International Premiere
Retrospective: Reimagining the Land
This programme reasserts the primacy of the land as a critical way of thinking about the world and about its various crises – confronting historical images of land, agriculture, rural life, and proletarian struggle. Reimagining the Land has been curated by Christopher Small.
Bharat Mata / MOTHER INDIA, Mehboob Khan, India, 1957, 172’
Alternate Realities
The Ghosts & Apparitions exhibition programme reflects on societal movements, sonic warfare and planetary health, through alternate and ghostly channels of communication and interaction. The artworks in this programme are presented in a variety of mediums that transfix and transform their spatial surrounding, through narrative or form.
To be exhibited in Autumn
FEEL MY METAVERSE, Keiken, George Jasper Stone / United Kingdom / 2019 / Film Installation with AR filters / 36’
THE BURST OF THINGS: OBJECTS ARE ALIVE AND HAVE SOMETHING TO SAY, Maria Court, Trinidad Piriz / Chile / 2020 / Audiovisual Installation / 28’
OVERHEAD 21, Paula Albuquerque / Netherlands / 2020 / Sound Installation / 4’33’’
THE EXPERIMENT, Kitty Clark / United Kingdom / 2019 / Audio Installation / 5’
Echange
In partnership with Vídeo nas Aldeias, a programme of films that reflect the diversity of the indigenous communities living in Brazilian territories. This programme is a provocation and a challenge to all of us. Made of films created by and within the context of a very specific project and quest: how can cinema, in the making of new work, be a tool to remember, imagine and build on these histories? How can we collectively, share responsibility, to learn and pass on, from one generation to the next, the idea that we are the land?
Eu já fui seu irmão / WE GATHER AS A FAMILY, Vincent Carelli, Brazil, 1993, 32’
As hiper mulheres / THE HYPERWOMEN, Carlos Fausto, Leonardo Sette, Brazil, 2011, 80’
Bicicletas de Nhanderú / BICYCLES OF NHANDERU, Patricia Ferreira (Keretxu), Ariel Duarte Ortega, Brazil, 2011, 48’
O Espírito da TV / THE SPIRIT OF TV, Vincent Carelli, Brazil, 1990, 18’
Tava, a casa de pedra / TAVA, THE STONE HOUSE, Vincent Carelli, Patricia Ferreira (Keretxu), Ariel Duarte Ortega, Ernesto Ignacio de Carvalho, Brazil / Argentina, 2012, 78’
Já me transformei em imagem / I’VE ALREADY BECOME AN IMAGE, Zezinho Yube, Brazil, 2008, 32’
Corumbiara / CORUMBIARA: THEY SHOOT INDIANS, DON’T THEY?, Vincent Carelli, Brazil, 2009, 117’