Mark Adams

An absorbing and at times seductive film that will delight fans of the music and those intrigued by the super cool era in which they operated.

Filmmaker Mark Cousins updates his expansive 15-part series The Story of Film: An Odyssey some 10 years on, examining the impacts, themes and innovations in cinema that have helped define the highly eventful period between 2010 and 2021.

The ever-prolific Mark Cousins emerges from pandemic lockdown with the engagingly insightful The Story of Looking (which closes Sheffield DocFest), a film that touches on territory he has delved into before but also comes with a personal spin that makes it all the more appealing.

Thanks to Poet Laureate Simon Armitage’s lilting and memorable words and cadence, there is an artistic flourish to this film project that could otherwise have been profoundly depressing. Review by Mark Adams.

Factory to the Workers (Tvornice Radnicima) is an engrossing fly-on-the-wall documentary about the struggles of a collectively owned Croatian machine tools factory trying to deal with new economic realities within a changing world.

The gentle melancholy that permeates this documentary about a 90-year-old Welsh man stoically planning the end of his days is balanced quite perfectly by the beautiful voices of the male voice choir he is a member of.

Using as its creative starting point an iconic early 70s photograph by acclaimed photographer Don McCullin of a youngster running along a bleak Liverpool street, this engaging documentary delves into the community who live in that same area today.

A delightful and gently profound meditation on the deep-rooted relationship between nature and humanity, Zuzanna Solakiewicz’s beautiful and gentle film resonates with sound, music, voices and history.

A powerful and compelling doc that plays like a drama feature at times, No Hero At All is a striking real-life story of a young disabled Polish man with a petty criminal past who is also a promising alpine skier potentially good enough to make the Paralympics.

Memories both welcome and traumatic are at the moving and involving heart of a film that charts the emotional return of Roman Polański and Ryszard Horowitz to the streets of Krakow that they knew so well as children.