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DocHouse Recommends

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

Subterranea: Tales from Below the Surface

Journey below ground with a season of films exploring subterranean spaces, from hidden lives to obscured memories.

DocHouse Shorts: Future Present

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

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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 Day Iceland Stood Still

Showing on Sat 28 Mar

When 90% of the women of Iceland walked off the job in 1975, they brought their country to a standstill and catapulted Iceland to "the best place in the world to be a woman.”

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.

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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.

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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.

Kinoteka: Letters From Wolf Street   

Showing from Fri 03 Apr

Arjun Talwar sets out to explore the Warsaw street where he lives, seeking to understand his neighbours and offer a personal view on his adopted country.

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. 

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.

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.