Sheffield DocFest champions and presents the breadth of documentary form – film, television, podcast, immersive and art – in Sheffield each June. This year’s festival features a strong lineup of Canadian film as well as being joined by trailblazer of Indigenous cinema, Alanis Obomsawin. Screenings include:
The Stand
Dir. Christopher Auchter
This striking archive-footage film follows Haida Nation members staging a peaceful but resolute blockade against a logging company, sparking a national debate around indigenous land rights in Canada.
Sugarcane
Dir. Julian Brave Noisecat, Emily Cassie
A riveting chronicle of an investigation into unreported deaths at a boarding school for Indigenous children in Canada that led to an inter-generational reckoning with abuse, faith and power.
Twice Colonized
Dir. Lin Alluna
In the face of personal loss, a lawyer seeks to redress the injustice of colonisation through the establishment of an Indigenous forum at the European Union.
Kanehsatake: 270 Years of Resistance
Dir. Alanis Obomsawin
Landmark film documenting the Kanien’kéhaka resistance to the development of sacred land into a golf course.