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DocHouse Recommends

Well-crafted, insightful, unforgettable. Whether they're festival favourites or hidden gems, DocHouse Recommends films are at the core of our programme - and you won't find them anywhere else.

Everest Dark

Now Showing

As the death toll on Everest rises, one of Nepal’s most legendary climbers leads an elite team on a mission to retrieve fallen climbers.

DocHouse Shorts: Future Present

Showing on Wed 18 Mar

This programme of short docs about AI brings into question the role we play as enablers of this existentially challenging technology. 

Palestine Comedy Club

Now Showing

Six Palestinian comedians tour a stand-up show exploring the unlikely, often dark humour that surrounds the complexity of Palestinian identity. 

Q&A

Blueberry Dreams

Now Showing

A warm and understatedly humorous film about a Georgian family's project to start a blueberry farm in an area where old conflicts rumble underground. 

Trains

Showing from Fri 20 Mar

Elegantly crafted entirely from black and white archive footage, Trains is a mesmerising portrait of Europe in the first half of the 20th Century.

Q&A

Orwell: 2+2=5

Showing from Wed 25 Mar

In this ambitious, electrifying film Raoul Peck channels George Orwell's prescient text into a powerful, cinematic reflection on our times. 

Q&A

Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Comparsa

Showing on Tue 31 Mar

From the shadows of a neighborhood scared into silence, Guatemalan sisters lead a luminous rebellion - unleashing joy, art, and radical truth in a fight for survival.

Q&A

D is for Distance

Showing on Wed 01 Apr

D is for Distance tells the story of the filmmakers’ son Louis, and his debilitating epilepsy, through an extraordinary archive of personal footage.

Underland

Showing from Fri 27 Mar

Based on Robert Macfarlane’s bestselling book, this mesmerizing documentary journeys into worlds seldom seen by human eyes, beneath the surface of the earth.

The Neon People

Showing on Sat 04 Apr

Beneath the glitz and glamour of the Las Vegas Strip lies a hidden world - thousands of homeless people struggling to survive in a vast network of dark, unsanitary tunnels.

Underground

Showing from Fri 03 Apr

Artist and filmmaker Kaori Oda's haunting hybrid explores the transgenerational memory of the caves of Okinawa, where communities sheltered from bombardment by US troop sin 1945. 

Dark Days

Showing from Sun 29 Mar

This cult classic from 2000 journeys through the underground train tunnels of 1990s New York, meeting the elusive community who live there.

Matabeleland

Showing from Fri 10 Apr

In the shadow of a forgotten massacre, A Zimbabwean man haunted by his father’s unburied spirit sets out to break a family curse.

I, Poppy

Showing from Fri 17 Apr

A complex power structure governs the lives of poppy farmers in India, who are caught between the corrupt government and thE black market. 

Q&A

The Conspiracists

Showing on Tue 21 Apr

A “Jan 6” insurrectionist takes a filmmaker and a researcher on a road trip and attempts to convert them to her world of conspiracy theories.