Past Screenings

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Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: Blue Has No Borders

2025

A young filmmaker is determined to know her neighbours in the port town of Folkestone. But in the aftermath of Brexit, building new relationships…

Burkitt

2025

This strikingly original film explores the life and work of Denis Burkitt, an Irish surgeon who discovered and cured a rare lymphoma - which…

I’m Not Everything I Want to Be

2025

Photographer Libuše Jarcovjáková - later dubbed the 'Nan Goldin of Czechoslovakia' - narrates her formative years in Prague, Tokyo and Berlin.

DocHouse Shorts: Memory Archive

2025

These thought-provoking short films use different forms of archival material to deepen our understanding of human stories.

Put Your Soul on Your Hand and Walk

2025

Filmmaker Sepideh Farsi recorded her video calls with photojournalist Fatma Hassona, creating a vivid and haunting video testimony of her daily life in Gaza.

Mistress Dispeller

2025

Desperate to save her marriage, a woman in China hires a professional to go undercover and break up her husband’s affair. Elizabeth Lo's astonishingly…

Marlee Matlin: Not Alone Anymore

2025

 In 1987, Marlee Matlin became the first Deaf actor to win an Academy Award and was thrust into the spotlight at 21 years old.…

Motherboard

2025

At the age of 38, BAFTA-winning director Victoria Mapplebeck found herself single, pregnant and broke. Unable to continue her career as a freelance filmmaker,…

Thelonious Monk: Straight, No Chaser

2025

The closest a film camera ever got to enigmatic jazz visionary Thelonious Monk, this intimate portrait sheds light on the corners of a brilliant…