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Sheffield DocFest Spotlights

Two of the year's best documentaries brought down from Sheffield, each with its maker and each open-captioned with a signer on stage.

Festival

At Bertha DocHouse.

DocHouse and Sheffield DocFest pick from what premiered at the festival and show it here with the film-maker. Two this autumn.

All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea, on 5 October, follows Stan Rennie, a North East fisherman of fifty years' standing who became an unlikely campaigner when thousands of poisoned crabs washed up on his coast and nobody in authority would say why. Jeanie Finlay is a Teessider and films it as a David and Goliath story with her subject's own gallows humour intact.

MKO, on 20 October, is about Moshood Abiola, who won Nigeria's freest election in 1993, was jailed when the military annulled it, and died after being served a cup of tea while American diplomats were in the room negotiating his release. Ose Oyamendan has the family, two presidents, Wole Soyinka and the delegate who was there.

Both are open-captioned, with a British Sign Language interpreter on stage through the Q&A.

Where
The Brunswick, WC1N 1AW
Nearest station
Russell Square · 2 min walk

5 and 20 October; Adult £12.50, senior and student £10

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