Nick Cunningham

Tone Grøttjord-Glenne talks about her documentary All That I Am, a story of pain, strength, resilience and hope, world-premiering in Toronto.

Main prize to Welcome to Chechnya, making it automatically eligible for Best Feature Doc Oscar® consideration. At festival end on 28 May, 167 films sold out and 82,686 free tickets issued.

Icelandic filmmaker Yrsa Roca Fannberg’s feature-length documentary shows life on a remote sheep farm, all set within a wider continuum of birth and rebirth.

The road they take may be ‘one less travelled by’, but Czech disabled band The Tap Tap pack as much energy and vitality into their performances (and their lives in general) as any Mick, Jimi or Slash combo.

Greek director Menios Carayannis’ FIPRESCI Award-winning documentary eschews the spoken word to enable us better to listen and to observe.

It’s a truth universally acknowledged that culture events equate to free food. And if you are organised enough, you can feast very happily on both.

The premise may seem ludicrous, a modern-day prophet guided by aliens, but Yoav Shamir takes his subject seriously, and even questions whether the back stories of more famous prophets (Jesus/Moses et al) aren’t just as fanciful.

In Katerina Patroni’s moving and profound The Fourth Character, selected for International Competition, three Athenians each reflect on the emotional complexities within their seemingly simple lives.

In her International Competition title The Unknown Athenians, Angeliki Antoniou roams the streets of Athens in the company of the city’s stray canines.

Patrick Hurley, Sheffield Doc/Fest’s Director of Marketplace & Talent, talks to Business Doc Europe about the festival’s online industry offer for June 2020.