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Sheffield DocFest Awards Top Prizes To ‘At The Door Of The House, Who Will Come Knocking,’ ‘The Boy And The Suit Of Lights,’ ‘No Other Land’


Sheffield DocFest gave its top awards to 'At the Door of the House, Who Will Come Knocking,' 'The Boy and the Suit of Lights,' and 'No Other Land.'

The Palestinian-Israeli filmmaking collective of Yuval Abraham, Basel Adra, Hamdan Ballal, and Rachel Szor directed the documentary which offers a visceral depiction of life for Palestinian villagers in the rural Masafer Yatta area of the occupied West Bank. The International First Feature Competition jury members were: Liselot Verbugge (CEO, Film Harbour), Kristine Barford (Nordland Pictures founder), Diego Pino Anguita (Executive Director of the Chilean Documentary Corporation). Jurors for the Tim Hetherington Award were: Joan Parsons (Head of Culture and Arts for Queen’s University Belfast), award-winning producer Toni Kamau and founder of the Kenyan based “We Are Not the Machine”, and Mariia Tsypiashchuk (Ukrainian attorney-at-law, partnerships manager of the Ukraine War Archive).

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