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The UK's most popular dedicated documentary film festival returns for its 22nd edition from June 5 to 12. This year it will celebrate its opening night with two events - a screening of The Look Of Silence and the world premiere of The Greatest Shows on Earth: A Century of Funfairs, Circuses And Carnivals.
Among the sections this year is a strand dedicated to documentarian Albert Maysles, who died earlier this year.
View Films by Strand:
- Albert Maysles Tribute
- Artefact
- Behind The Beats
- Best Of British
- BFI Archive
- Euro/Doc
- Films In Competition
- Galas
- Global Encounters
- Ideas & Science
- Instigators & Agitators
- John Akomfrah Retrospective
- Women In Docs
View previous years coverage of the Sheffield DocFest festival:
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![The Damned: Don't You Wish That We Were Dead](/images/stills/d/damned_dont_you_wish_that_we_were_dead_2015.jpg)
Documentary about the punk pioneers.
![Landfill Harmonic](/images/stills/l/landfill_harmonic_2015.jpg)
Garbage from a landfill is used to create instruments for the local children, who form the Recycled Orchestra of Cateura, Paraguay, which turns their lives around.
![Meru](/images/stills/m/meru_2014.jpg)
A documentary about the ascent of an unconquered mountain.
![Tell Spring Not To Come This Year](/images/stills/t/tell_spring_not_to_come_this_year_2015.jpg)
Follows two soldiers from the Afghan National Army over the course of their first year fighting without NATO support.
![Death Of A Gentleman](/images/stills/d/death_of_a_gentleman_2015.jpg)
Two cricket journalists, Sam Collins and Jarrod Kimber, set off on a journey to the heart of the second most popular sport on Earth, only to stumble upon something more sinister than they could ever have imagined.
![The Divide](/images/stills/d/divide_2015.jpg)
The story of the rising gap between rich and poor, told through seven individual accounts.
![Orion: The Man Who Would Be King](/images/stills/o/orion_the_man_who_would_be_king_2015.jpg)
The mystery and surprising history of the man with Elvis Presley's voice.
![16 Years Till Summer](/images/stills/0/16_years_till_summer_2015.jpg)
A convicted criminal returns home to nurse his father, bringing a dangerous mix of troubled past and big ambition into the lives of those that love him.
![Containment](/images/stills/c/containment_2015.jpg)
Documentary on the potential future problems from the world's nuclear waste.
![Best Of Enemies](/images/stills/b/best_of_enemies_2015.jpg)
A behind-the-scenes account of the explosive 1968 televised debates between the liberal Gore Vidal and the conservative William F Buckley Jr, and their rancorous disagreements about politics, God, and sex.
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