FREM – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury June 18, 2020 Reviews Two of modern society’s most pressing topics collide in Viera Čákanyová’s mediation on the power of artificial intelligence and the gradual erosion of the arctic landscape at the hands of climate...
Flint – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Rob Salusbury June 14, 2020 Reviews In April 2014, Michigan governor Rick Snyder switched the water supply of the city of Flint from Lake Huron to the Flint River. Many residents of the city soon began to suffer from numerous health problems and...
Brigitte – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2020 Review Nick Davie June 14, 2020 Reviews Lynne Ramsay’s latest work is a short documentary film, showing at Sheffield Doc/Fest, capturing a detailed and intimate conversation with photographer Brigitte Lacombe. French photographer Lacombe is a...
The Brink – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Sophie Maxwell June 13, 2019 Reviews For what seems like the hundredth time, Steve Bannon positions himself next to a young woman for a photograph. With a flourish, he says "you go in the middle – a rose between two thorns." By the end of The...
Border South – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Sophie Maxwell June 13, 2019 Reviews Border South is the story of the migrant trail that leads from southern Mexico to the United States. The documentary explores life on the trail, alongside the lives of a Nicaraguan migrant and an American...
XY Chelsea – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Sophie Maxwell June 13, 2019 Reviews Tim Travers Hawkins’ documentary film XY Chelsea follows two years in the life of whistleblower and activist Chelsea Manning. In 2010, Manning leaked thousands of classified US government documents to...
Danny – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Jack King June 13, 2019 Reviews What is one spurred to do when facing their own mortality? Co-directors Aaron Zeghers & Lewis Bennett evoke this question throughout Danny: a flawed, if immensely personal, 50-minute documentary compiled...
Don’t Be a Dick About It – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Jack King June 10, 2019 Reviews A documentary doesn't always have to be didactic in order to teach. As is true for real life, it's often through passive observation that we learn much not only about the subject at hand, but also of...
Jawline – Sheffield Doc/Fest 2019 Review Stephanie Watts June 9, 2019 Reviews The opening of Jawline is not dissimilar to a scene from Ingrid Goes West. 16 year-old Austyn Tester is on an impromptu, increasingly long photoshoot, posing and giving pointers to his friend who’s in the...
A Syrian Love Story – Review Alex Flood September 21, 2015 Reviews Love, hatred, fear, laughter, sadness; you name it, Sean McAllister’s heart-breaking documentary about a family of Syrian refugees has it in spades. As compelling a romance as any you’ll find on screen,...