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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Beneath the Surface

The Sámi are indigenous to the region formerly known as Lapland (Sápmi) which covers northern areas of Norway, Sweden, Finland and the Murmansk Oblast. Like all aboriginal groups, they’ve been…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Mountains and Heaven in Between

While Ukraine is a country with a lot of history, it has come a long way since the collapse of the USSR at the beginning of the 1990s. Before Putin…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: A Bunch of Amateurs

Filmmaking clubs used to be very popular in most European countries, including the UK. Most cities had one. Made up of enthusiastic amateurs brought together by a shared passion, these…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Electric Malady

It might not be a condition you’ve heard of, and arguments still rage across the medical community about whether it is actually an illness in its own right, but electrosensitivity…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Eat Your Catfish

Amyotrophic Lateral Sclerosis (ALS), aka Motor Neuron Disease (MND) or Lou Gehrig’s Disease, is a terrible neurodegenerative condition which eventually leads to the loss of muscle control. There is no…

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A campaigner holding up a packet of birth control pills

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Business of Birth Control

When the combined oral contraceptive pill (COCP), or birth control pill, was made available for contraceptive purposes at the start of the 1960s it triggered a sexual revolution for women.…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: The Happy Worker

Monday morning is a traumatic experience for millions of office workers around the world. Unless you’re one of the very lucky people who get to work in a field you…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review: Boney Piles

While Vladimir Putin might have started his official invasion of Ukraine in February 2022, Russia has been at war with its neighbour since 2014. Under the guise of ‘Russian-backed separatists’…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest 2022 Preview

After a couple of years in an online or hybrid form, Sheffield Doc/Fest once again returns in all its glory to the cinema screens of South Yorkshire on 23-28 June.…

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Sheffield Doc/Fest Review – 9/11: One Day in America

I’d argue that we can define modern history as the period before and after September 11th 2001. Anyone waking up on that Tuesday morning would never have believed the events…

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