Programme A-Z

Special screening of the Sheffield DocFest International Audience Award Winner: Ultimate Thunder

A punk band whose members have learning disabilities and Down syndrome fight to reach a bigger stage as funding cuts, health scares and setbacks close in.

Three filmmakers confront systems of violence and erasure, revealing how images, resistance and truth-telling become tools for survival, exposure and defiance.

Across continents and generations, four films uncover the burdens and bonds of inheritance, where memory, myth and survival shape what families choose to remember or forget.

Experience a captivating journey through Italy's history with this collection of rare Historical Luce Archive shorts, beautifully reimagined with vivid color and evocative, contemporary musical scores.

Three films follow lives shaped by care and connection across farms, flights and fairs, where animals and humans share fragile bonds of growth, loss and belonging.

Three intimate journeys through grief and remembrance where art, rituals and hope become a way of holding those still missing close.

Three stories of queer resilience trace the search for safety in homes, music and asylum centers, where identity, community and survival collide.

From Texas classrooms to neurodiverse self-discovery and a particular Italian youth community, three films explore how young lives adapt, resist and redefine what it means to belong.

From frontlines to exile, two Syrian stories of friendship and loss reveal the quiet endurance of memory, resistance and the search for home.

Three films explore belief and resistance through healing rituals, feminist defiance and ancestral memory, where the sacred becomes a space of struggle, identity and transformation.

As women speak out, power pushes back. Three urgent documentaries explore the legal, cultural and systemic forces working to silence women across the world.

Celebrating 100 years of Sir David Attenborough, this special conversation brings together leading voices to reflect on his extraordinary legacy and explore how it is shaping the future of environmental storytelling and activism.

Join us for coffee and brunch as we celebrate another successful year of award-winning films and series from Sky Documentaries.

Take a seat, chat with the delegate opposite, every 10 minutes you move one seat to the left and meet someone new. Who will you end up chatting with?

After the screening, we warmly invite you to join a movement workshop to explore what it means to be a witness. 

Join Documentary Film Council's new CEO Mandy Chang and Mark Edwards for a solutions-led conversation on how we can collectively shape the future of UK documentary.