Frem by Viera Čákanyová
From Friday 13 November until Thursday 26 November, Sheffield Doc/Fest will present its fourth and final programme of the 2020 festival – titled Ghosts & Apparitions.
“Since the first glimpses of the moving image, ghosts were haunting our imaginations, including those yet to be,” reads a festival statement. “A ghost from then meets a ghost from now – histories and collective memory are born. And cinema: the dismantling of frontiers.”
The programmes involves 13 films and artworks, representing nine spoken languages and spanning 12 countries: Argentina, Canada, Chile, Czech Republic, France, Israel, Netherlands, Spain, Taiwan, Thailand, UK, and the USA.
Filmmakers and artists include the Israeli Jarman Award-winning interdisciplinary artist (and Sheffield Hallam University alumni) Oreet Ashery; the award-winning Canadian filmmaker Sofia Bohdanowicz and the experimental Portuguese filmmaker and scholar Paula Albuquerque, among others. The UK & Germany-based collective Keiken will present a live interactive experience from a virtual world on Saturday 14 November.
The Film programme will be available online to all UK-based public via Sheffield Doc/Fest Selects and to all Digital Industry Passholders internationally via Doc/Player, from 17:00 on Friday 13 November until just before midnight on 26 November. Select titles are also available to watch via MUBI over the same dates.
The Arts programme will be available online for audiences internationally, and free of charge via the Sheffield Doc/Fest website, same dates.
Full Ghosts & Apparitions Film Programme and Arts programme overview
Documentary selections
Deep Waters / Augas Abisais + Director Introduction
Xacio Baño, Spain, 2020, 25’ – World Premiere
Dying Under Your Eyes
Oreet Ashery, Israel / United Kingdom, 2019, 27’
地洞 / The Tunnel + Director Introduction
Hui-ju Hsu, Taiwan, 2020, 30’ – International Premiere
Todo lo que se olvida en un instante / Everything That Is Forfotten In An Instant + Director Q&A
Richard Shpuntoff, Argentina, 2020, 71’ – UK Premiere
Point and Line to Plane + Director Q&A
Sofia Bohdanowicz, Canada, 2020, 18’ – UK Premiere
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Viera Čákanyová, Czech Republic, Slovakia, 2019, 73’ – UK Premiere
Mon Amour + Director Q&A
David Teboul, France, 2019, 172’ – UK Premiere
Santikhiri Sonata
Thunska Pansittivorakul, Thailand, Germany, 2019, 75’ – UK Premiere
Truth Or Consequences
Hannah Jayanti, USA, 2020, 103’ – UK Premiere
