Past Screenings
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Juvenile Court
2025
Wiseman brings together his interests in young institutions and the justice system in this observation of a Memphis Juvenile Court.
Central Park
2025
Spend a day in New York's Central Park, with the people who make use of it for a snapshot of New Yorkers in 1989.
Aspen
2025
We're whisked into Colorado's Rocky Mountains for this observational portrait of elite holiday destination and former mining town Aspen.
Public Housing
2025
Public Housing is Frederick Wiseman’s unflinching portrayal of life at the Ida B. Wells housing project in Chicago.
La Danse: The Paris Opera Ballet
2025
Entering the bowels of the Palais Garnier, Frederick Wiseman follows, during twelve weeks, the production of seven ballets by the world-renowned Paris Opera Ballet.
Menus-Plaisirs
2026
Master documentarian Frederick Wiseman turns his attention to the prestigious, family-run, Michelin three-starred restaurant La Maison Troisgros, in France.
High School
2025
Wiseman's verité camera captures 1960s school life at an urban high school in Philadelphia, revealing how the ideology and values of the school emerge.
Writing Hawa
2025
An Afghan filmmaker documents repression by the Taliban and resistance to it across three generations of women in her family.
Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: How to Build a Library
2025
Two tenacious Kenyan women take on the mighty task of renovating Nairobi's historic library.