Visual artist Klaudia Kemper tries to reconnect with her ageing, aphasic father, a psychoanalyst who remained in Brazil after she left for Chile when she was young. This award is Academy Award accredited.īringing the Voice– Chile, Brazil – Klaudia Kemper – 2023 (World Premiere) Honoring films that best display strong artistic vision and courageous storytelling. Paul Sng’s riveting portrait of Tish Murtha captures the passion and commitment of a trailblazing photographer who dedicated her life to recording the hopes, dreams and struggles of working-class communities in the industrial Northeast. Tish– UK – Paul Sng – 2022 (World Premiere) The Guest of Honor at this year’s festival, Rakhshan Banietemad, “will discuss her career to date, reflecting on her critically acclaimed and award-winning body of work, as well as premiering a short film she created during the pandemic.” “An incisive, provocative and necessary work, it is based on interviews conducted by Freedland with 12 British Jews, which combine to expose the roots and damning legacy of antisemitism throughout our society, often in places where we least expect it.”

In Their Own Words, a special one-hour abridged version of the verbatim play created by Guardian journalist Jonathan Freedl and produced by the Royal Court Theatre. Highlighting the festival’s Alternate Realities exhibition is Missing Pictures, a five-part VR series “where acclaimed filmmakers Abel Ferrara, Tsai Ming- Liang, Catherine Hardwicke, Lee Myung-Se and Naomi Kawase tell us about the film they didn’t get to make… Users are transported to the locations of the films they discuss.” Winners will be revealed during an awards ceremony at Crucible Playhouse on June 18. Seven films will be considered by the Youth Jury, and the International Alternate Realities Competition will honor the best innovative nonfiction work. Five documentaries will be considered for the Tim Hetherington Award presented in association with Dogwoof (the award is named for the late Oscar-nominated filmmaker and author, who was killed while covering the uprising in Libya in 2011). The line-up for this years’ International Competition comprises nine films, up for the Grand Jury Award nine films in International First Feature Competition supported by Netflix, and 10 films in International Short Film Competition. “As a team we have selected the most thought provoking, cinematic and relevant works of recent non-fiction, and will proudly present them in June with the context and attention they deserve.” “Covering the whole spectrum of documentary storytelling, from direct documentation of events to poetic experimental art works, and everything in between, the 2023 film program is full of stories that will spark audience’s curiosity like never before,” said Raul Niño Zambrano, Sheffield DocFest creative director.

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