Short Film Programmes
Brimming with creativity and pushing the boundaries of the form, our short film programmes present some of the most exciting voices in documentary.
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Filmmaker Challenge: 6 Short Films on Sheffield
Our Filmmaker Challenge returns for 2025, bringing 6 exciting voices to Sheffield to make a short micro documentary under the guidance of their mentor. Principal supporter Prime Video.
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Shorts: All We See is Light
Cinema sculpts with light. With beauty and precision, these films invite us to sensitise our perception beyond the visible, showing us ways to sense the world otherwise.
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Shorts: Building a Home
Bridges and boundaries, together and apart. These four films question what we mean when we say 'community'. Is it about care, togetherness, solidarity or separation?
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Shorts: Resistance
Documenting resistance. Documentary as resistance. These films speak of the visceral power of documentary film to bear witness and to model new realities.
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Shorts: Spaces Between
These films trace the emotional and physical journeys of migration, memory and identity across landscapes scarred by histories of both oppression and resistance.
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Shorts: The Art of Movement
The body is a tool, a gift, a mirror of the soul. These films speak in languages beyond words, following four inspiring women on journeys towards self-expression through movement.
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Shorts: The Future is Unwritten
Through speculation, fabulation and magical realism, these four films - from four corners of the globe - revel in the power and possibilities of poetic truth, expanding the frontiers of the documentary form.
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Shorts: The Great Beyond
From cosmic caves to sacred stadiums, these films immerse us in worlds beyond the known, where myth, matter and meaning dissolve, transform and begin anew.
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Shorts: Where We Find Ourselves
Stories matter. Whose stories get told matters. Who tells those stories matters. From Scotland, Sheffield, North Macedonia and Ecuador, these films pay homage to ancestors and the stories they leave behind.
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