Programme A-Z

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DocFest Awards Ceremony

Join us at Sheffield’s Memorial Hall as we unveil the winning films across festival live pitches, our official competitions as well as the esteemed Doc Audience Award, voted for by you!

Event

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Does Length Matter? Making Short Docs That Count

In this session, panellists will share insights on the key markers of a compelling short documentary, and how shorts can propel filmmakers into a breadth of opportunities in the industry.

Industry Programme

Industry Session

Dust & Metal

Esther Johnson’s film brings together a trove of archive and contemporary footage for a thrilling, unorthodox portrait of Vietnam, screened with live music composed by Xo Xinh.

Esther Johnson
2022
Film Programme

Film

Earth Swimmers

This film attends to the tricks and techniques that mole catchers use to access the underground world of the mole.

Hermione Spriggs
2021
Film Programme

Film

Eat Your Catfish

This uncompromising portrait of co-director Noah Amir Arjomand’s mother, who has ALS, shows a woman who has chosen to live a challenging life on her terms.

Adam Isenberg, Noah Amir Arjomand, Senem Tüzen
2021
Film Programme

Film

El Arena

Unfolding against the backdrop of a turbulent political climate, the finest rappers in the Arab-speaking world gather in Beirut, hoping to be crowned King of the Battle.

Jay Jammal
2022
Film Programme

Film

Electric Malady

From within a cocoon of layered blankets, William copes with a life consumed by electrosensitivity, in this touching experiential portrait of isolation and survival.

Marie Lidén
2021
Film Programme

Film

Escaping Gravity

Britain’s Imperial Airship programme is the topic of this full room immersive installation, revealing the human desire for progress, adventure and the unknown.

Mike Stubbs, Roland Denning, Roger Illingworth, Dave Lynch, Rob Strachan, Sam Weihl
2021
Alternate Realities Programme

Artwork

Exposing Muybridge

Eadweard Muybridge, pioneering photographer and early filmmaker, was a man of many lives, as this engaging and thrillingly told documentary reveals.

Marc Shaffer
2021
Film Programme

Film

Fashion Reimagined

Trailblazing fashion designer Amy Powney is on a mission to create a sustainable collection and transform the way we engage with fashion.

Becky Hutner
2022
Film Programme

Film

Fawley

With a multitude of voices, both human and non-human, this sensorial gem explores the environs of the soon-to-be demolished Fawley Power Station.

Chu-Li Shewring, Adam Gutch
2022
Film Programme

Film

Feminist Economics Football: A Co-operative Game for Sheffield

A public football match, with three sides playing on a hexagonal pitch, illustrates intersecting themes in Feminist Economics.

Feminist Exchange Network, Ailie Rutherford, Mandy Roberts, Sapna Agarwal
2022
Alternate Realities Programme

Artwork

Five Scenes From the War in Afghanistan as They Appear in East Sussex

In five powerful scenes, Afghanistan veteran Clement Boland recalls how the cruelty and strangeness of war has followed him back to his idyllic English home.

Frank Martin
2021
Film Programme

Film

Focus: Filmmaker Talent

Our Guest Curator, Asif Kapadia, working with the DocFest team, is inviting six filmmakers to make a short documentary, in and around Sheffield, during the Festival.

Film Programme

Shorts programme

Four Journeys

A second-born child during the height of China’s one-child policy, Louis Hothothot returns home to reconcile decades of guilt and familial discord.

Louis Hothothot
2021
Film Programme

Film

Fourteen Days in May

This account of a US convict’s final days on death row is an uncompromising portrait of the country’s legal system and an indictment of capital punishment.

Paul Hamann
1987
Film Programme

Film

Fragile Memory

Ihor Ivanko sheds light on the life of his grandfather, Leonid Burlaka, a cinematographer from the glory days of Odessa Film Studio, who is diagnosed with Alzheimer’s.

Igor Ivanko
2022
Film Programme

Film

Garçonnières

A group of men aged between 30 and 45 talk candidly to Céline Pernet about their relationship to notions of masculinity.

Céline Pernet
2022
Film Programme

Film

Geamăna

Geamăna village, once home to 1000 people, lies buried beneath a copper mine’s toxic waste. Only the church spire rises from the poisoned lake.

Matthäus Wörle
2021
Film Programme

Film

Gondwana

This VR project allows you to roam through Australia’s ancient Daintree rainforest as it simulates 100 year of climate change impact.

Ben J Andrews, Emma Roberts
2022
Alternate Realities Programme

Artwork

Good Intentions

Shot mostly by its protagonist over the course of ten years, this is an intimate and devastating portrait of one man’s struggle with methamphetamine addiction.

Andres Villasenor
2021
Film Programme

Film

Goodbye, Captain

The story of ‘Captain’ Krohokrenhum, leader of the Gavião indigenous people, from Pará state in northern Brazil, who died in 2016.

Vincent Carelli, Tatiana Soares de Almeida
2022
Film Programme

Film

Goodnight, Sleep Tight (Pilot)

ZU-UK explores the intimate and the epic, the interface between live and digital experiences with this work that exists between physical and virtual worlds.

2022
Alternate Realities Programme

Artwork

Hafreiat

Whilst labouring on an archaeological dig in Jordan, a father excavates his troubled past. With another baby on the way, he ponders the possibility of a better future.

Alex Sardà
2022
Film Programme

Film

Happiness is £4 Million

An idealistic, young journalist is tasked with profiling China’s biggest real estate speculator. But how can she write a profile about a man whose money-obsessed worldview she despises?

Weixi Chen, Kai Wei
2022
Film Programme

Film