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The organisers say: "Music docs isn’t just ideal for first dates! One of our most popular strands is repeating this year with a collection of some beat driven, high energy docs that are as much about the present as they are about the past and the future of music."

Read our full 2008 Sheffield DocFest .


12 Notes DownWe Are Wizards
(Country: Denmark; Director: Andreas Koefoed)
A young choir singer's life falls apart when his voice breaks.

(Country: UK; Director: Havana Marking)
Four hopefuls compete to become pop idols in post-Taliban Afghanistan.

(Country: UK; Director: Liz Mermin)
Profile of Ahmad Zahir, once Afghanistan's biggest pop singer.

(Country: UK; Director: Richard Ayoade; Cast: Alex Turner, Jamie Cook, Matt Helders, Nick O'Malley)
Concert recording of the Sheffield band.

(Country: UK; Director: Hannah Rothschild)
The unlikely friendship between Baronnes Pannonica Rothschild and Thelonious Monk.

Ahmad Zahir For BeginnersWorldrevolution
(Country: US; Director: Nick Broomfield)
Nick Broomfield's famous documentary about the life and work of Nirvana frontman Kurt Cobain, his relationship with Courtney Love, and his eventual suicide.

(Country: UK, Iraq; Director: Kasim Abid)
The affects of the fall of Saddam on one family in Iraq.

(Country: UK; Director: Virginia Heath)
Documentary about David Roch – aka Little Lost David – Sheffield’s fastest rising music star.

(Country: UK, US, Germany; Director: Elizabeth Marcus)
Touring footage and more from the Manic Street Preachers.

(Country: Germany; Director: Tariq Marzbaan)
Profile of 60-year-old Afghanistan-born composer, Zâher Howeida, who now lives in exile in Hamburg.

(Country: UK; Director: Don Letts)
Exploring 40 years in the showbiz life of the godfather of Sheffield music.

(Country: US; Director: Josh Koury)
The phenomenon of Harry Potter influenced bands.

(Country: Austria; Director: Klaus Hundsbichler)
Enjoy a day in the company of Stefan Weber and his pet chicken, Hilde.


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