Past Screenings

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

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The Ban

2024

The Ban reflects on the British government’s practice of dubbing the IRA on broadcast media during the troubles.

Grand Theft Hamlet

2024

Two out-of-work actors attempt to stage a production of Hamlet entirely within the video game Grand Theft Auto.

The Contestant

2024

The incredible story of a man trapped inside a room for 15 months, completely unaware that his life was being broadcast on TV.

The Taste of Mango

2024

Director Chloe Abrahams probes raw questions her mother and grandmother have long brushed aside, untangling her family’s unspoken past.

Soundtrack to a Coup d’Etat

2024

This megalith of a film teases out the complex, sordid details of Congo's liberation from Belgian colonial rule in June 1960.

Classified People

2024

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

Super/Man: The Christopher Reeve Story

2024

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

As the Tide Comes In

2024

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

Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Silent Men

2024

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