Programme A-Z

Our Filmmaker Challenge returns for 2024, bringing 6 exciting new voices to Sheffield to make a short micro documentary under the guidance of filmmaker mentor Julie Cohen.

Legendary boxer Frank Bruno and the directors of this series will join us on stage straight after the screening of this ringside documentary about four British boxing greats.

The realities of the Mexican journalists, as well as those featured in other films in the selection, will be at the centre of the ensuing conversation around the delicate state of journalism worldwide.

Despite the growth in filmmaker-led organisations and increasing calls for structural change, BIPOC producers and filmmakers still face significant challenges financing, exhibiting and distributing their films.

Join the Grierson Trust for a networking event celebrating their talented Grierson DocLab trainees and alumni. 

Hak Baker, the subject of DEADHORSES' (James Topley and Ivo Becket) film, will perform on stage after the screening of Hakeem, and will discuss the documentary portrait with its directors.

Members of The Cimarons and director Mark Warmington will be in discussion with filmmaker, DJ and musician Don Letts straight after a screening of this lyrical musical history.

We're delighted to welcome Munya Chawawa back to DocFest for the second part of his series on the world's most authoritarian leaders, this time focussing on Kim Jong Un, the supreme leader of North Korea.

The acclaimed playwright, novelist and director will join us remotely to discuss this portrait of him and his career in both the arts and public sphere.