The Witches of the Orient Trailer

Through sport, we travel to Egypt, where 14-year-old Zebiba is training to become a weightlifting champion in Lift like a Girl, back to the UK for Stormskater, where Ishariah Johnson, aka ‘Stormskater’, gives insight into the roller skating community and a fundamental need for space, and to Japan, where the former players of the Japanese volleyball team reflect on their countless victories leading to the 1964 Olympic triumph in The Witches of The Orient, a story told through a dynamic mix of archive and anime. Finally, the relationship between artist and muse, the drawer and the drawn is discussed between two lovers in Drawings of my BF, while cartoons come to life on screen in a celebration of queer comics and graphic novels – and the artists and activists who penned them, including Alison Bechdel – in No Straight Lines.

The Witches of the Orient screens as part of our Rhyme & Rhythm strand in the 2021 Sheffield DocFest programme.-

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They have something to tell to their grankids.