Sheffield DocFest 2022

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Nelly & Nadine Nelly & Nadine
Nelly & Nadine and All Man: The International Male Story
1341 Frames Of Love And War (Country: Israel, US, UK; Year: 2022; Director: Ran Tal; Writer: Ran Tal; Stars: Barak Bar-Am, Micha Bar-Am, Nimrod Bar-Am, Orna Bar-Am)
Israeli photographer Micha Bar-Am recalls his journey from Berlin to Palestine, the birth of the state of Israel and its subsequent history.
After The End Of The World (Country: Lebanon; Year: 2022; Director: Nadim Mishlawi)
Considering Beirut in the 30 years since the civil war
All Man: The International Male Story (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Bryan Darling, Jesse Finley Reed; Writer: Peter Jones; Stars: Matt Bomer, Carson Kressley)
A peek behind the pages and personalities of International Male, one of the most ubiquitous and sought-after US mail-order catalogues of the Eighties and Nineties.
Dear Jackie (Country: Canada; Year: 2021; Director: Henri Pardo; Writer: Henri Pardo; Stars: Ronald Jones, Ivan Livingstone, Majiza Philips, Jackie Robinson)
Exploring the life of baseball player Jackie Robinson.
Exposing Muybridge (Country: US; Year: 2021; Director: Marc Shaffer; Writer: Marc Shaffer; Stars: Gary Oldman, Luther Gerlach, Marta Braun, Richard Jackson Kushakaak, Heather Lake, Philip Brookman, Richard White, Rebecca Gowers, Tracy Storer, Thomas Gunning, Mark Klett, Tracey Stores, Leo Shaffer, Amy Werbel, Byron Wolfe)
Biographical portrait of the photography pioneer.
Jane Jane
Jane and A Story Of Bones
The Fire Within: Requiem For Katia And Maurice Krafft (Country: France, United Kingdom, Switzerland, US; Year: 2022; Director: Werner Herzog; Writer: Werner Herzog; Stars: Katia Krafft, Maurice Krafft)
Exploring humans fascination with volcanoes using the archive of the vulcanologists.
Fragile Memory (Country: Ukraine; Year: 2022; Director: Ihor Ivanko; Writer: Ihor Ivanko, Mariia Ponomarova)
A filmmaker explores his grandfather's cinematography history as the older man is suffering with Alzheimer's.
Goodbye, Captain (Adeus Capitao) (Year: 2022; Director: Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Soares de Almeida)
The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.
Jane (Country: US; Year: 2017; Director: Brett Morgen; Writer: Brett Morgen)
Documentary about primatologist Jane Goodall.
Love, Deutschmarks And Death (Country: Germany; Year: 2022; Director: Cem Kaya; Writer: Mehmet Akif Büyükatalay, Cem Kaya; Stars: Alper Aga, Orhan Amuroglu, Imran Ayata, Ali Ekber Aydogan, Boe B., Ömer Boral, Ata Canani, Dede Deli, Ercan Demirel, Mustafa Deniz, Erci E., Rüstü Elmas, Hatay Engin, Ihsan Ergin, Yüksel Ergin)
Documentary about the music of Turkish guest workers who migrated to Germany.
The Melt Goes on Forever: The Art & Times of David Hammons (Country: US; Year: 2022; Director: Harold Crooks, Judd Tully; Writer: Harold Crooks)
Portrait of the African American artist.
Mutzenbacher (Country: Austria; Year: 2022; Director: Ruth Beckermann; Writer: Ruth Beckermann, Claus Philipp)
With an ad in a newspaper, Ruth Beckermann announces a casting call for a film based on a well-known pornographic text. The film, Mutzenbacher, sees a hundred men confronted with excerpts from the novel, Josefine Mutzenbacher or The Story of a Viennese Whore, in an age when sex is more ubiquitous than ever, and yet at same time is met with a highly charged moral environment.
Nelly & Nadine (Country: Sweden, Belgium, Norway; Year: 2022; Director: Magnus Gertten; Writer: Magnus Gertten)
The story of two women who fell in love whilst imprisoned in Ravensbrück concentration camp.
A Story Of Bones (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Joseph Curran, Dominic Aubrey de Vere; Stars: Peggy King Jorde, Annina Van Neel)
Chronicles Annina van Neel's tireless work to reclaim and honor the neglected history of St Helena after the remains of thousands of formerly enslaved Africans are uncovered on the remote island.
TS Eliot: Into The Waste Land (Country: UK; Year: 2022; Director: Susanna White)
The hidden history behind the landmark poem.
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