DocFest Online

If you can't make Sheffield DocFest in person this year, you can still watch so many of the films online from wherever you are in the UK from Monday 19 - Sunday 25 June. Booking for films is now available.

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1001 Days

Kethiwe Ngcobo and Chloe White’s immersive account of the first 1001 days of a child’s life is seen from the perspective of three South African healthcare workers.

Kethiwe Ngcobo, Chloe White
2023
Film Programme

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A Year in a Field

BAFTA-winning documentarian Christopher Morris reflects upon human existence, its relationship to the environment and the urgent need for compassion and transformation.

Christopher Morris
2023
Film Programme

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After the Bridge

An intimate portrait of Valeria Collina, the mother of Youssef, one of the jihadists who took part in the 2017 London Bridge attack.

Davide Rizzo, Marzia Toscano
2023
Film Programme

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All The Flowers

A tender portrait of Tabaco y Ron, a small brothel in a Bogotá neighbourhood that’s home to many of the city’s trans sex workers.

Carmen Oquendo-Villar
2023
Film Programme

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Bad Press

A defiant journalist confronts corruption and the curtailing of press freedoms in the Muscogee (Creek) Nation.

Rebecca Landsberry-Baker, Joe Peeler
2023
Film Programme

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Between the Rains

This revealing, visually captivating film, shot over the course of a four-year drought in Northern Kenya, offers an original take on the conventional coming-of-age narrative.

Moses Thuranira Thiane, Andrew H Brown
2023
Film Programme

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Choose Me

Chadian director Allamine Kader Kora visits his mother’s village, where a marriage proposal ceremony becomes the centre of an intergenerational debate about tradition and the freedom to choose.

Allamine Kader Kora
2023
Film Programme

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If only night wouldn't fall

A unique perspective on three Western countries’ attempts to grapple with anxiety, depression and psychosis.

Marc Schmidt
2023
Film Programme

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Lonely Oaks

Compiled from footage collected over two years by film student-turned-activist Steffen Meyn, Lonely Oaks documents the troubled occupation of Germany's Hambach Forest.

Fabiana Fragale, Kilian Kuhlendahl, Jens Muehlhoff
2023
Film Programme

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Long Distance Swimmer - Sara Mardini

The Syrian swimmer who pulled the boat that carried her and another 18 refugees to Greece now copes with the consequences of becoming a famous activist.

Charly Wai Feldman
2023
Film Programme

Max Roach: The Drum Also Waltzes

A celebratory showcase of the life, music and activism of a trailblazing artist who employed his talents to challenge the status quo and inspire change.

Sam Pollard, Ben Shapiro
2023
Film Programme

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Much Ado About Dying

When filmmaker Simon Chambers cuts short a shoot in India to tend to his dying uncle, he has no idea of the journey they’re about to embark on together.

Simon Chambers
2022
Film Programme

My Worst Enemy

Mehran Tamadon explores what it was like being interrogated by the Iranian regime by asking prisoners to reconstruct their experiences.

Mehran Tamadon
2023
Film Programme

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Razing Liberty Square

As rising sea-levels threaten the city of Miami, one local black community fight to save their neighbourhood from property developers and climate gentrification.

Katja Esson
2023
Film Programme

Shorts: Dreaming Trees

Flowers give birth to dreams. A rock dreams of a man. Trees hold us as we grieve. And a community establishes new roots. These four films take us far beyond the individualistic human-centred view of the world.

Film Programme

Shorts programme

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Stone Town

The easternmost fishing town in China sits on the cusp of radical change, as this quietly devastating film details.

Jing Guo, Dingding KE
2023
Film Programme

The Hearing

This thought-provoking and innovative film challenges immigration processes through the accounts of four people whose lives were impacted by it.

Lisa Gerig
2023
Film Programme

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The Invention of the Other

A record of an attempt to contact the Korubo, a remote indigenous tribe that occupies territory deep inside the Amazonian rainforest.

Bruno Jorge
2022
Film Programme

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Tokyo Uber Blues

Director Taku Aoyagi underwent a career change during the pandemic, becoming an Uber Eats rider. Will he survive?

Taku Aoyagi
2022
Film Programme

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Where God Is Not

Three former political prisoners of the Iranian regime re-enact their experiences of interrogation, torture and isolation in Mehran Tamadon’s visceral and confrontational film.

Mehran Tamadon
2023
Film Programme

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