Past Screenings

Our full screening archive, featuring every documentary we've shown.

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Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Silent Men

2024

Director Duncan Cowles takes us on a journey through male mental health, stigma and taboo in the UK.

Classified People

2024

Newly restored and reissued, Classified People (1987) exposes South Africa’s insidious apartheid policy of 'race classification'.

As the Tide Comes In

2024

A delightful and droll portrait of the 27 residents on the tiny Danish Wadden Sea island of Mandø.

Mediha

2024

Mediha follows a teenage Yazidi girl as she fights to find her missing family members, in the wake of her own enslavement by ISIS.

Film Africa: Mário

2024

A biography of Angolan-born Mário Pinto de Andrade (1928–1990), a key figure in African revolutionary and anti-colonial struggles.

Film Africa: Rising up at Night

2024

A subtle, fragmented portrait of a Kinshasa, and a population reinventing itself in an environment marked by violence and beauty.

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

2024

A moving and cinematic telling of Christopher Reeve's remarkable story.

Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Mother City

2024

Mother City follows the David versus Goliath battle as activists and domestic workers take on property power and politics in Cape Town.

Black Box Diaries

2024

Journalist Shiori Ito documents her courageous investigation into her own sexual assault, after Japanese police refuse to help.