Programme A-Z

Your chance to review the DFC's work serving the documentary community over the past year, to welcome your newly elected board, and set the path forward for 2026/27.

Presenting a collection of early frontrunners and a recent Academy Award winner, with exclusive clips and candid conversations as filmmakers prepare for the upcoming awards season.

Critically acclaimed stalwarts - nay, legends! - of the Sheffield Electronic music scene, the Eccentronic Research Council perform The Dreamcatcher Tapes live with Maxine Peake.

StitchNBitch Editors collective presents a candid case study of one production trialling on-the-job editor training; covering process, finances, and what it means for future productions.

Experience an extraordinary live performance and transmedia project weaving BFI archive, new media and electronica into imagined futures for South Asian multicultural heritage.

An industry reception with ESPN and the team behind Give Me The Ball!, celebrating documentary filmmakers across this year's festival.

ESPN is proud to present a special showcase of The Brittney Griner Story followed by Q and A with director Alexandria Stapleton.

How can we view fair use as a creative challenge? Come find out in this live event where filmmakers and a lawyer engage in a dance between the law and art to see how we can make affordable archive-laden artistic films possible.

Our Filmmaker Challenge returns for 2026, expanding to 12 filmmakers across three UK regions, creating bold short documentaries on the fly under the guidance of their mentors. Principal supporter Prime Video Pathways.

Join industry experts Ryan Harrington and Debra Zimmerman as they share fundraising roadmaps and strategies for US financing.

A conversation that aims to debunk some of the smoke and mirrors around distribution, reflecting on the many ways that films can successfully land with audiences.

Join us for a special screening of this film, followed by a discussion with the director, Neasa Ni Chianain, and protagonist Eamon Ryan.

A behind the scenes look at Power: The Downfall of Huw Edwards, and the ethical, creative and legal tightrope shaping sensitive, high-stakes storytelling.

The Explorers in Training! is an interactive live performance in which the performers and explorers embark on a wondrous adventure with the audience.

Join the new Director of Factual, Fiona Campbell, for a discussion about how the BBC is future proofing factual content at a time of intense media competition.

A behind-the-scenes look at how podcast ideas are developed and commissioned - from the team behind Goalhanger's shows.

Join Guardian Documentaries and Arte as they launch a new short-form documentary collaboration, inviting filmmakers to pitch on the theme of democracy in Europe today.

In this workshop, we will reflect on the film Heals and explore what identity means to us as individuals.