Programme A-Z

The team behind Chris Packham’s Inside Our Autistic Minds reveal the techniques they used to place the lived experience of autistic people at the heart of their BBC Two series.

Special screening of the Grand Jury Award Winner for the International Competition - In the Rearview. 

One country. One minibus. Many journeys. This fly-on-the-wall film captures Ukrainians as they are forced to leave their homes and drive into the unknown.

Special screening of the Grand Jury Award Winner for the International First Feature Competition, Q.

Jude Chehab’s debut feature untangles her family’s connection to a Syrian religious order, making for a nuanced and tense exploration of matrilineal trauma.

Expert panel discussion session, featuring International practitioners, sharing diverse examples of interactive narrative works that use videogame technologies and techniques to explore contemporary real-life situations and tell stories in new ways.

Screening of Is There Anybody Out There?, followed by a conversation with director Ella Glendining and special guests.

Join us for the launch event and first Open Assembly of the Documentary Film Council (DFC), a new sector-wide body for the UK independent documentary film industry that will be owned and run by and for its members.

We welcome Laura Whitmore, who will discuss her career to date and a new, upcoming documentary series.

Created by author and journalist Jonathan Freedland, Jews. In Their Own Words. is a special, one-hour abridged version of the 2022 verbatim play produced by the Royal Court Theatre.

Special Kino Bambino screening of The Gullspång Miracle where, a series of coincidences lead sisters Kari and May to Olaug, the spitting-image of an older sibling who was believed to have committed suicide decades ago.

Where it all started… join us going back to the roots of DocFest as we celebrate the festival, with added entertainment.

Screening of Let the Canary Sing, followed by a conversation with director Alison Elwood and special guests.

Screening of Long Distance Swimmer - Sara Mardini followed by a conversation with director Charly Wai Feldman.

Located in the heart of the Marketplace, the café offers a comfortable and inviting space where you can grab a coffee, a bite to eat, and set up meetings with industry delegates and festival guests.

Following the last of this year’s events at Cutlers’ join us in raising a glass to all the connections and collaborations made at the 2023 Marketplace.

The city of São Paulo Film and Audiovisual Company, Spcine, wants to invite you to meet emerging talents, awarded filmmakers and cinema organisations from Brazil.