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<p class="ydp7086fbbbMsoNormal"><span>Dear All,</span></p>

<p class="ydp7086fbbbMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>The programme for Sheffield

Docfest has been announced <a href="https://sheffdocfest.com/festival/2021/explore/film-programme?page=0" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sheffdocfest.com/festival/2021/explore/film-programme?page=0</a>

. Considering one of the curators is now Japanese, I can’t find as many

Japanese films as I hoped. There is:-</span></p>

<p class="ydp7086fbbbMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><i><span>Double

Layered Town / Making a Song to Replace Our Positions </span></i><span><span> </span></span><span><a href="https://sheffdocfest.com/film/double-layered-town-making-song-replace-our-positions" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sheffdocfest.com/film/double-layered-town-making-song-replace-our-positions</a><span> by </span>Haruka Komori + Natsumi Seo, which

sounds like it might be called a fictional film, </span></p>

<p class="ydp7086fbbbMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>and Hara Kazuo’s <i>Minamata

Mandala</i> <a href="https://sheffdocfest.com/film/minamata-mandala" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://sheffdocfest.com/film/minamata-mandala</a>,

running at 6 hours, 12 minutes on the final non-competition day, 13<sup>th </sup>June.

As it’s a Sunday, the first train from </span><span>London</span><span> would get me there an hour late. Does

anyone have the experience to say whether watching a mere five and a quarter

hours at the end would make a rational viewing experience ?</span></p>

<p class="ydp7086fbbbMsoNormal" style="margin-top:6.0pt;layout-grid-mode:char;mso-layout-grid-align:none"><span>Roger</span></p>

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