Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: My Dear Spies
Now that many records have been digitised and access may only be a few clicks (and a few more pounds) away, more and more people have begun to research their…
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Sheff Doc/Fest Review: Who We Were
On Earth at least, human beings are the only sentient lifeforms who spend a large proportion of their lives thinking about the bigger picture. Contemplating those pressing questions around life…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Lift Like A Girl
One of the ways in which many societies has changed over the last few decades is in the relationship between women/girls and traditionally macho sports. Whilst there was an initial…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Splinters
Memories are precarious things. They can be elusive and fragmentary, especially when up against the sands of time. Our minds are tricksters, constantly finding new and imaginative ways to pull…
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IFFR Review: Homeless
The ‘developed world’ is in the middle of a housing crisis. With populations on the rise, increasing migration and jobs becoming increasingly centralised in large cities, the pressure on available…
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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Charm Circle
As the sayings go, blood is thicker than water and you can choose your friends but not your family. Whilst we might consider ourselves to be enlightened and evolved creatures,…
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IFFR Review: Nudo Mixteco
Mexico, in many ways, has a PR problem when it comes to portrayals of the country on the big screen. More often than not, the Latin American country features for…
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IFFR Review: Bloodsuckers
Popular culture has a habit of returning to ‘classic’ literature again and again. Whether that’s to place the characters and plot within a different timeline or re-examine the contents from…
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IFFR Review – Woodlands Dark and Days Bewitched: A History of Folk Horror
Genre film fans tend to be a rather avid bunch. Staunchly faithful to, and rabid defenders of, our favourite films, we naturally have a preference when it comes to sub-genres.…
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IFFR Review: The Day is Over
Traditionally, when focusing on youth the cinematic gaze has rested squarely on boys. Boys were the ones with rampant imaginations and a fearlessness which made for great cinema. This was…
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