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STEPHEN

Stephen is auditioning to play himself in an inventive, cinematic and moving exploration of addiction and mental health.

Melanie Manchot
2023
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Stone Town

The easternmost fishing town in China sits on the cusp of radical change, as this quietly devastating film details.

Jing Guo, Dingding KE
2023
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Suddenly TV

A group of young Sudanese revolutionaries create an imaginary television station. Interviewing protestors, they confront the violence of the regime and imagine a new Sudan.

Roopa Gogineni
2022
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The Takeover

Filmed in 2021 and 2022, as the Taliban retake control of Afghanistan, this film documents the country’s rapid transformation and the women who refuse to lose their rights.

Anders Hammer
2023
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That's No Lady

An early work by the Co-op, this hard-hitting short unpicks the links between a casually misogynist culture and the lived reality of women experiencing domestic abuse.

Sheffield Film Co-op
1977
Film Programme

Three Windows on South West

A filmmaker reminisces with her mother and friends about her childhood apartment. Their stories of love and friendship become the backdrop for a very different story.

Mariia Ponomarova
2023
Film Programme

Time Bomb Y2K

An all-archival deep dive into the ‘millennium bug’, the widespread cultural hysteria in the lead-up to the year 2000 that redefined our relationship to technology.

Marley McDonald, Brian Becker
2023
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Tish

A moving portrait of social documentary photographer and trailblazer Tish Murtha, who dedicated her life to documenting the lives of working-class communities in North East England.

Paul Sng
2023
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TLC Forever

In the run-up to their forthcoming tour, TLC look back at their groundbreaking yet tumultuous career as the biggest-selling American girl group of all time.

Matt Kay
2023
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TLC Forever + Conversation

Screening of TLC Forever, followed by a conversation with director Matt Kay and special guests.

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Talks Programme

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Tokyo Uber Blues

Director Taku Aoyagi underwent a career change during the pandemic, becoming an Uber Eats rider. Will he survive?

Taku Aoyagi
2022
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Total Trust

Surveillance reaches new levels of invasiveness in China, where advances in technology allow the state increasing control over public, private and political life.

Jialing Zhang
2023
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Transition

Having covered the conflict in Afghanistan for years, genderqueer filmmaker Jordan Bryon finds himself at a moral crossroads when he is offered access to the Taliban.

Jordan Bryon, Monica Villamizar
2023
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Twice Colonized

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.

Lin Alluna
2023
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Uncharted

An account of the experiences of young artists attending Alicia Keys' songwriting camp offers a revealing insight into attitudes around race in the music industry.

Beth Aala
2023
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Under The Sky Of Damascus

A group of young Syrian women create a play that highlights the violence of patriarchy within their society.

Heba Khaled, Talal Derki, Ali Wajeeh
2023
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Valerija

A filmmaker travels to the island where her grandmother is buried. This experimental journey takes us back through her lineage of female ancestors.

Sara Jurinčić
2023
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We are Half of Iran's population

Rakhshan Banietemad gives voice to a multitude of Iranian women as they continue to fight for their rights and freedoms in the run up to the 2009 Presidential election.

Rakhshan Banietemad
2009
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Wham!

An intimate celebration of George Michael and Andrew Ridgeley’s enduring friendship, from childhood and through their years together as one of the UK’s biggest bands.

Chris Smith
2023
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Wham! + Conversation

Screening of Wham!, followed by a conversation with director Chris Smith and special guests.

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Talks Programme

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What the Soil Remembers

Community elders use their collective wisdom, spirituality and patience to confront one of the many injustices of apartheid, in this energised portrayal of reconciliation.

José Cardoso
2023
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Where God Is Not

Three former political prisoners of the Iranian regime re-enact their experiences of interrogation, torture and isolation in Mehran Tamadon’s visceral and confrontational film.

Mehran Tamadon
2023
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While We Watched

Hindi-language journalist Ravish Kumar and filmmaker Vinay Shukla examine the rapidly deteriorating state of television reporting in India.

Vinay Shukla
2022
Film Programme

White Nanny Black Child

A group of adults find solace in sharing their experiences of growing up as children of Black Nigerian immigrants who were fostered by white British families.

Andy Mundy-Castle
2023
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Women Like You: Three Films from the Sheffield Film Co-op

This programme brings together three films spanning the Sheffield Film Co-op’s history, from their early DIY activist work to innovative hybrid experiments and compelling investigative documentaries.

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