Programme A-Z
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Mental Health Advice & Drop In
Mental Health Check Ins - available to anyone who needs support.
  • Participation & Engagement Programme
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Mini Doc: Something I Want You To Know Showcase
Join us for a showcase at Sheffield DocFest, celebrating films made by filmmakers with learning disabilities and/or autism as part of the ArtWorks Together partnership Mini Doc: Something I Want You To Know.
  • Film Programme
    Participation & Engagement Programme
Shorts Film Programme
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Mini Doc: Something I Want You To Know... Relaxed Networking Drinks
Following the Mini Doc, Something I Want You To Know showcase, audiences are invited to join the teams behind the films for a networking drinks.
  • Participation & Engagement Programme
Workshop
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MKO
Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's freest election, only for the military to jail him. When U.S. diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, he is served tea, and dies.
  • Ose Oyamendan
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
Film
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Neighbourhood Voices Choir Performance
Join us for a live performance from Neighbourhood Voices Choir
  • Participation & Engagement Programme
Event
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New Generation Europe Foundation & Documentary Showcase Reception
An industry reception celebrating bold documentary films championed by New Generation Europe Foundation and Documentary Showcase.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Social
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New Stories, Emerging Authors: Showcase of Work in Progress from Bangladesh
Dhaka DocLab is an Asian forum for documentary filmmakers in Bangladesh.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Marketplace Activity
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New Stories, Emerging Authors: Showcase of Work in Progress from India
DocedgeKolkata is the oldest incubation lab and pitching platform in Asia for nonfiction storytellers dedicated to developing creative and human interest stories from India and the Asian countries.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Marketplace Activity
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Nightcleaners
A groundbreaking record of the early 1970s campaign to unionize the women who cleaned London's office blocks at night, exploited and invisible.
  • Marc Karlin, Mary Kelly, James Scott, Humphery Trevelyan
  • 1975
  • Film Programme
Film
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No Filter: In Conversation with Miriam Margolyes
Alongside long-standing collaborator Simon Draper, Miriam Margolyes reflects on truth-telling and humour, exploring why bold storytelling matters in an increasingly polarised and fragile public sphere.
  • Talks Programme
Talk
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Notes from the Underground
A cross-generational oral history of Cape Town, told through the underground hip-hop scene that turned rhythm, resistance and mentorship into a living education system.
  • Adrian Van Wyk, Chris Kets
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
Film
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One In A Million
Filmed over ten years, a Syrian family's journey from a shelled apartment in Aleppo to a new life in Germany reveals the hidden costs of survival.
  • Itab Azzam, Jack MacInnes
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
Film
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Opening Night at the Lyceum: We, The Hated
This year's opening film is an intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors which asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.
  • Film Programme
    Industry Programme
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Opening Night Drinks
Join us at the Cathedral for drinks and to celebrate the opening of the festival!
  • Industry Programme
Industry Social
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Opening Night: We, The Hated - Public Premiere
This year's opening film is an intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors, asking what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.
  • Film Programme
Film
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Palestine Film Institute Showcase
In collaboration with Sheffield DocFest, through the Palestine Showcase, PFI presents four feature documentaries in progress.
  • Industry Programme
Industry Marketplace Activity
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Part Fish
Diagnosed autistic at 31, a Cumbrian filmmaker turns the camera on herself to explore burnout, stimming and the path to self-acceptance.
  • Sophie Broadgate
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Past Future Continuous
After years of living in exile from Iran, Maryam installs CCTV cameras in her family’s Tehran home and creates a lifeline to the parents she left behind.
  • Morteza Ahmadvand , Firouzeh Khosrovani
  • 2025
  • Film Programme
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Pelo Lindo
A 90-year-old Guatemalan mother reflects on four decades of waiting for her forcibly disappeared son, and the chapel she built in his name.
  • Josue Garcia Prado
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Phenomena
A filmmaker and his physicist father turn energy, magnetism and matter into extraordinary cinema that reveals the universe like never before, all set to a stunning soundtrack.
  • Josef Gatti
  • 2026
  • Film Programme
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Phenomena + Q&A
A filmmaker and his physicist father turn energy, magnetism and matter into extraordinary cinema that reveals the universe like never before, all set to a stunning soundtrack.
Film
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Podcast Live: 10 Years of Radio Atlas
Join us for a special tenth birthday screening of subtitled audio docs from the 1970s to 2025, introduced and curated by Radio Atlas's founder Eleanor McDowall.
  • Podcast Programme
Talk
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Podcast Live: Audible Original Series Launch with Charlie Webster
An exclusive live launch and immersive listen with award-winning journalist Charlie Webster, showcasing her new Audible Original.
  • Podcast Programme
Talk
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Podcast Live: BBC Radio 4's Dead Rabbit with Chris Packham
Broadcaster and campaigner Chris Packham joins investigative journalists Dan Ashby and Lucy Taylor to launch a new BBC podcast series, exposing organised crime in the British countryside.
  • Podcast Programme
Talk
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Podcast Live: BBC Radio 4's Dear Gilbert, Dear Gordon
The first ever live version of BBC Radio 4's Illuminated, featuring an exclusive listening session to the forthcoming programme Dear Gilbert, Dear Gordon.
  • Podcast Programme
Talk

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