Past Screenings
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Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: MKO
2026
Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's freest election, only for the military to jail him. When U.S. diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, he is served…
Mississippi Triangle
2026
Discover the work of pioneering Asian American filmmaker Christine Choy, whose camera tracked labour, incarceration, immigration and liberation for half a century. Oscar-nominated and…
Christine Choy: Double Bill
2026
A double bill of two short films reflecting Christine Choy's interest in the experience of East and Southeast Asian immigrants to the US.
Black is Beautiful: The Kwame Brathwaite Story
2026
Photographer, freedom fighter and activist Kwame Brathwaite took 500,000 photos across his 60-year career, always devoted to celebrating the joy and beauty of African…
The Disciple: A Wu-Tang Fable
2026
An outsider fueled by relentless determination works his way into the inner circle of the Wu-Tang Clan.
The Last First: Winter K2
2026
A complex, harrowing and moving story that takes an unflinching look at the industry of extreme mountain climbing and its changing culture.
Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: All Rivers Spill Their Stories to the Sea
2026
When thousands of dead crabs wash ashore in a small North East fishing town, fisherman Stan Rennie becomes the unlikeliest of activists.
Boorman and the Devil
2026
Boorman and the Devil details how Academy Award-nominated director John Boorman took on the massive 1977 sequel Exorcist II: The Heretic.
Kikuyu Land
2026
While investigating Kenya's global tea industry, Nairobi journalist Bea Wangondu stumbles upon her own family's secrets whilst peeling back Kenya's colonial legacy.