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Sheffield DocFest 2019

This section will also feature a screening of Toshio Matsumoto short films.

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The Big House The Big House
The Big House and Norie
The Big House (Country: US; Year: 2018; Director: Kazuhiro Soda, Markus Nornes, Terri Sarris)
Documentary shot in Michigan Stadium, showing everything but the game.
UK premiere
Chiyo (Country: Japan; Year: 2019; Director: Chiemi Shimada)
A portrait of the director's grandmother.
World premiere
Memento Stella (Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Takashi Makino)
Experimental documentary considering our place in the stars.
UK premiere
Mountain Plain Mountain (Year: 2018; Director: Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby; Writer: Yu Araki, Daniel Jacoby)
Obihiro is the last Ban’ei racecourse – a rare form of horse racing involving heavy sleds. This documentary takes a look.
UK premiere
Norie (Country: Japan; Year: 2018; Director: Yuki Kawamura)
During the annual ghost festival in Japan, the director, Yuki, along with his father Munemitsu, embarks upon an emotional journey in the footsteps of Norie.
UK premiere
A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch
A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch and The Pearl Of Tailorbird
The Pearl Of Tailorbird (Year: 2019; Director: Rei Hayama)
Decelerated birdsong gets misinterpreted into Japanese.
World premiere
A Tiny Place That Is Hard To Touch (Country: Japan, US; Year: 2019; Director: Shelly Silver)
Science fiction and desire collide when an American researcher meets a Japanese translator.
UK premiere
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