Programme A-Z

Special screening of the Sheffield DocFest Audience Award Winner

Join us for a special screening of Sheffield on Film, plus a discussion with creators Graham Relton, Megan McCooley and Melanie Rawson. 

Cinema sculpts with light. With beauty and precision, these films invite us to sensitise our perception beyond the visible, showing us ways to sense the world otherwise.

Bridges and boundaries, together and apart. These four films question what we mean when we say 'community'. Is it about care, togetherness, solidarity or separation?

Documenting resistance. Documentary as resistance. These films speak of the visceral power of documentary film to bear witness and to model new realities.

These films trace the emotional and physical journeys of migration, memory and identity across landscapes scarred by histories of both oppression and resistance.

The body is a tool, a gift, a mirror of the soul. These films speak in languages beyond words, following four inspiring women on journeys towards self-expression through movement.

Through speculation, fabulation and magical realism, these four films - from four corners of the globe - revel in the power and possibilities of poetic truth, expanding the frontiers of the documentary form.

From cosmic caves to sacred stadiums, these films immerse us in worlds beyond the known, where myth, matter and meaning dissolve, transform and begin anew.

Stories matter. Whose stories get told matters. Who tells those stories matters. From Scotland, Sheffield, North Macedonia and Ecuador, these films pay homage to ancestors and the stories they leave behind.

Join us for coffee and brunch as we celebrate another successful year of award-winning films and series from Sky Documentaries.

Join us to hear from a journalist, podcaster, and documentary maker, to discuss storytelling and how stories can successfully move through mediums.

Take a seat, chat with the delegate opposite, every 10 minutes you move one seat to the left and meet someone new. Who will you end up chatting with?

Join us to hold space for each other in solidarity, learn what organisations and individuals are doing to meet this moment, and name interventions we need.

A pay-as-you-feel community preview screening.

Across the world, DEI is under attack and the future of diverse storytelling has never felt more uncertain. But the documentary community isn't backing down. This session is both a rallying cry and a roadmap - bold, unapologetic, and urgently needed.

Stitch N Bitch Editors host a craft-focused panel with festival editors, exploring their films, career paths and creative challenges, and offering practical advice for aspiring documentary makers.

A showcase spotlighting the revival of Iraqi creative docs