Past Screenings

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Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Red Herring

2024

Diagnosed with an incurable brain tumour, Kit Vincent enlists his family for a journey to help them come to terms with his illness.

The Hamlet Syndrome

2024

Part of our Ukrainian Season: People Power. Five people stage a production of Hamlet that relates to their war experience.

Goya, Carrière & The Ghost of Buñuel

2024

Screenwriter Jean-Claude Carrière returns to Spain on a pilgrimage of admiration for the painter Francisco de Goya.

Iron Butterflies

2024

Part of our Ukrainian Season: People Power. On 17 July, 2014, Malaysia Airlines Flight MH17 was shot down by Russian forces over eastern Ukraine.

Roses.Film-Cabaret

2024

Part of our Ukrainian Season: People Power. A tragicomic musical documentary exploring the heights of the cabaret genre in the modern world.

Ukrainian Sheriffs

2024

Part of our Ukrainian Season: People Power. Welcome to Stara Zburievka, a small Ukrainian town where local sheriffs try to keep the peace.

Orlando: My Political Biography

2024

Almost a century after the publication of Orlando, Paul B. Preciado shows Virginia Woolf's character has become a reality.

Celluloid Underground

2024

As a film-obsessed young man growing up in Iran after the 1979 revolution, Ehsan Khoshbakht pined for celluloid film reels.

Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Much Ado About Dying

2024

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