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14/06/2021 - The award-winning European films included the co-productions Equatorial Constellations by Silas Tiny and Ali and His Miracle Sheep by Mayhem Ridha
As with so many festivals, it’s easy to feel a little overawed when first glancing at the full program of films on offer at Sheffield DocFest (June 4-13). Despite the challenges of programming during a pandemic, the Sheffield team has pulled together an impressive lineup of 78 features and 88 shorts in its films program.
BBC series from Steve McQueen highlights full Sheffield Doc/Fest lineup The Sheffield Doc/Fest has unveiled its full lineup for this year’s festival, including 55 world premieres.
This year’s edition of the annual UK-based documentary film festival also includes 22 international premieres, . May 17, 2021
The Sheffield Doc/Fest has unveiled its full lineup for this year’s festival, including 55 world premieres.
This year’s edition of the annual UK-based documentary film festival also includes 22 international premieres, 15 European premieres and 59 U.K. premieres. On the whole, the festival includes films from 57 countries with 63 languages represented.
Highlighting the 166 entries in the festival’s film program this year is the world premiere of
Murdering minorities
April 15, 2021
In a bold and defiant recent book, This Land Is Our Land: An Immigrant’s Manifesto (2019), Suketu Mehta has written a deeply erudite defence of global migrants and refugees who roam the globe and make the cruel wheels of predatory capitalism run their cycles.
Mehta begins his book with the story of his own grandfather sitting in a park in a suburb of London when a nasty old racist “white man” – an avid reader of Rudyard Kipling no doubt – approaches him and wags his finger at him demanding to know why he was in “his country”. “Because we are the creditors,” responds Mehta’s magnificent grandfather, who was born in India worked all his life in colonial Kenya and had retired in London, “We are here, because you were there.”