Sheffield DocFest on Tour

Season

Please note : this season finished in June 2021

Audiences from Inverness to Bristol, Belfast to Cardiff can enjoy a number of titles straight from Sheffield DocFest's Official 2021 Selection simultaneously with the festival audiences in Sheffield.

Watershed will screen the Festival's opening film, Summer of Soul, Ahmir “Questlove” Thompson’s powerful look at the 1969 Harlem Culture Festival plus My Name is Pauli Murray, a focus on the pioneering Black attorney, activist, priest, poet and memoirist, and The Story of Looking which is the Festival's closing film, the latest personal meditation from director Mark Cousins. All three screenings also have recorded Director Q&As.

Previous screenings in this season

The Story of Looking

CTBA Sheffield DocFest

Please note: This was screened in June 2021

Film

The Story of Looking sees Mark Cousins prepare for surgery to restore his vision. In a personal meditation on the power of looking in his own life, Cousins reveals how looking makes us who we are.

My Name is Pauli Murray

18 (CTBA) Sheffield DocFest

Please note: This was screened in June 2021

Film

Told mainly using Murray’s own words, this film follows the pioneering Black attorney, activist, priest, poet, and memoirist who wrestled with gender identity and shaped landmark litigation around race and gender equity.

Summer of Soul

12A Sheffield DocFest

Please note: This was screened in June 2021

Film

Ahmir 'Questlove' Thompson makes his directorial debut with this powerful documentary about the 1969 Harlem Cultural Festival, a testament to music and culture as collective empowerment.

Previous screenings in this season

The Story of Looking

My Name is Pauli Murray

Summer of Soul

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