YORKSHIRE BYLINES: Sheffield DocFest drew 47,500 attendees this year and has an estimated £2.61m annual economic impact on the city. Yet council funding is confirmed only for 2027, despite a £100,000 grant.
- by Katherine Sansom
- by Katherine Sansom
Sheffield’s film industry: an asset to be cherished
Sheffield’s film industry brings enormous cultural and economic value, but its future depends on continued investment
yorkshirebylines.co.uk
September 29, 2026 at 5:34 PM
YORKSHIRE BYLINES: Sheffield DocFest drew 47,500 attendees this year and has an estimated £2.61m annual economic impact on the city. Yet council funding is confirmed only for 2027, despite a £100,000 grant.
- by Katherine Sansom
- by Katherine Sansom
In this interview by @nickkinocritic.bsky.social, codirectors Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar discuss finding healing and closure from a sexual assault in their Sheffield DocFest winner, ‘Filthy.’ Read more at #DocumentaryMag.
“This Can’t End Here Now”: Filmmakers Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar Discuss The Road from Rape to Reclamation in Their Prize-Winning ‘Filthy’
In this interview, codirectors Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar discuss finding healing and closure from a sexual assault in their Sheffield DocFest winner, Filthy
www.documentary.org
September 28, 2026 at 7:55 PM
In this interview by @nickkinocritic.bsky.social, codirectors Bàrbara Mestanza and Marc Pujolar discuss finding healing and closure from a sexual assault in their Sheffield DocFest winner, ‘Filthy.’ Read more at #DocumentaryMag.
📽️ Screening today at the IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
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September 27, 2026 at 11:38 AM
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KIKUYU LAND 🎥 is worth seeing for the beauty of its images but as the investigative documentary it clearly aimed to be it falls sadly short movieswetextedabout.com/beautiful-ki...
Beautiful 'Kikuyu Land' Falls Flat (Sheffield DocFest 2026 Film Review)
You don’t realise how tough it is to make a good documentary until you see ones which fall short. For a documentary to succeed, it needs to back up its assertions in ways which will stand up in court,...
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September 26, 2026 at 1:53 PM
KIKUYU LAND 🎥 is worth seeing for the beauty of its images but as the investigative documentary it clearly aimed to be it falls sadly short movieswetextedabout.com/beautiful-ki...
📽️ Screening today at the IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL
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September 24, 2026 at 10:52 AM
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September 23, 2026 at 11:11 AM
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September 23, 2026 at 10:13 AM
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September 22, 2026 at 4:22 PM
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🚨 Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: MKO
📆 20 Oct + Q&A
When Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's 1993 election, he is jailed by the military. US diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, where he is served tea, and dies. MKO unravels the cover-up behind one of Africa's most consequential political crimes.
📆 20 Oct + Q&A
When Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's 1993 election, he is jailed by the military. US diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, where he is served tea, and dies. MKO unravels the cover-up behind one of Africa's most consequential political crimes.
September 20, 2026 at 2:42 PM
🚨 Sheffield DocFest Spotlights: MKO
📆 20 Oct + Q&A
When Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's 1993 election, he is jailed by the military. US diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, where he is served tea, and dies. MKO unravels the cover-up behind one of Africa's most consequential political crimes.
📆 20 Oct + Q&A
When Moshood Abiola wins Nigeria's 1993 election, he is jailed by the military. US diplomats arrive to negotiate his release, where he is served tea, and dies. MKO unravels the cover-up behind one of Africa's most consequential political crimes.
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September 20, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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Join us Wed, Sept. 23 for a day of deep listening & meditation!
How can we take care of ourselves & others through awareness?
Composer & teacher Tom Bickley will lead a series of workshops on sonic meditation & deep listening, based on the work of composer Pauline Oliveros.
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How can we take care of ourselves & others through awareness?
Composer & teacher Tom Bickley will lead a series of workshops on sonic meditation & deep listening, based on the work of composer Pauline Oliveros.
https://bit.ly/4jbgWCL
September 18, 2026 at 8:20 PM
Join us Wed, Sept. 23 for a day of deep listening & meditation!
How can we take care of ourselves & others through awareness?
Composer & teacher Tom Bickley will lead a series of workshops on sonic meditation & deep listening, based on the work of composer Pauline Oliveros.
https://bit.ly/4jbgWCL
How can we take care of ourselves & others through awareness?
Composer & teacher Tom Bickley will lead a series of workshops on sonic meditation & deep listening, based on the work of composer Pauline Oliveros.
https://bit.ly/4jbgWCL
🎉 We are now including a selection of four IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL films as part of our U25 pricing!
🦞 All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea | Thurs 24th (20.40)
🐑 Magilligan | Sat 26th (14.20)
🍎 Adam's Apple | Sat 26th (14.45)
🎭 Acting | Sun 27th (16.10)
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🦞 All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea | Thurs 24th (20.40)
🐑 Magilligan | Sat 26th (14.20)
🍎 Adam's Apple | Sat 26th (14.45)
🎭 Acting | Sun 27th (16.10)
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September 18, 2026 at 2:30 PM
🎉 We are now including a selection of four IFI DOCUMENTARY FESTIVAL films as part of our U25 pricing!
🦞 All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea | Thurs 24th (20.40)
🐑 Magilligan | Sat 26th (14.20)
🍎 Adam's Apple | Sat 26th (14.45)
🎭 Acting | Sun 27th (16.10)
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🦞 All Rivers Spill Their Stories To The Sea | Thurs 24th (20.40)
🐑 Magilligan | Sat 26th (14.20)
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🎭 Acting | Sun 27th (16.10)
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September 17, 2026 at 2:30 PM
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William Greaves' Once Upon A Time In Harlem screens at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social DocFest, shot in 1972 featuring every living survivor of the Harlem Renaissance gathering at Duke Ellington's house, unfinished until now. Greaves was a remarkable director:
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IFI Documentary Festival 2026: Once Upon a Time in Harlem
Film Institute Ireland — The Irish Film Institute is Ireland’s National Cultural Institution for Film. We Exhibit Curated Films, Preserve Ireland's Film…
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September 16, 2026 at 12:26 PM
William Greaves' Once Upon A Time In Harlem screens at @irishfilminstitute.bsky.social DocFest, shot in 1972 featuring every living survivor of the Harlem Renaissance gathering at Duke Ellington's house, unfinished until now. Greaves was a remarkable director:
ifi.ie/films/doc-fe...
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Lovely story from Herzog here about getting hassled on the set of Bad Lieutenant until Cage stepped up. (It's about 30:30 in, if the embed screws up.) youtu.be/SXgRCI33Js0?...
A Conversation with Werner Herzog - Doc/Fest 2019
YouTube video by Sheffield DocFest
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September 15, 2026 at 10:59 AM
Lovely story from Herzog here about getting hassled on the set of Bad Lieutenant until Cage stepped up. (It's about 30:30 in, if the embed screws up.) youtu.be/SXgRCI33Js0?...
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September 15, 2026 at 9:00 AM
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And a special screening of Everybody to Kenmure Street, the documentary about the time Glasgow people blocked a deportation, Rose of Nevada with the director live performing the soundtrack, the IFI's Docfest and a preview screening of Dune 3.
September 11, 2026 at 10:17 PM
And a special screening of Everybody to Kenmure Street, the documentary about the time Glasgow people blocked a deportation, Rose of Nevada with the director live performing the soundtrack, the IFI's Docfest and a preview screening of Dune 3.
Est-ce que la team @nanarland.bsky.social et assimilés a vu le docu "The Insufferable Groo" (2018), sur un réalisateur de nanars qui tente d'embarquer Jack Black dans une rom com cheap avec un elf ? ça vient de débarquer sur Prime Video 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kww...
The Insufferable Groo TRAILER | Sheffield Doc/Fest 2018
YouTube video by Sheffield DocFest
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September 4, 2026 at 10:12 AM
Est-ce que la team @nanarland.bsky.social et assimilés a vu le docu "The Insufferable Groo" (2018), sur un réalisateur de nanars qui tente d'embarquer Jack Black dans une rom com cheap avec un elf ? ça vient de débarquer sur Prime Video 👀 www.youtube.com/watch?v=9kww...
If it was tiddlywinks or similar, they would fund it. But something of real cultural interest... nah
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Sheffield DocFest announces 2026 line up
Miriam Margolyes, Maxine Peake and Chris Packham announced for Sheffield DocFest
www.bbc.co.uk
September 3, 2026 at 8:59 AM
If it was tiddlywinks or similar, they would fund it. But something of real cultural interest... nah
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
The White Death of the Black Wizard Trailer
YouTube video by Sheffield DocFest
youtu.be
August 26, 2026 at 2:38 PM
In 1979, a woman named Martine Rose bought a run-down terraced house in Walkley, #Sheffield. It had no electricity or running water. For the next two and a half decades, that ordinary terrace was one of the first dedicated safe spaces for trans people anywhere in the UK.
✍️ Naomi Abel-Hirsch
#Trans
✍️ Naomi Abel-Hirsch
#Trans
A safe house in Walkley: writing Rose's House back into Sheffield's queer history
Naomi Abel-Hirsch is the director of Rose's House, a short documentary that premiered at Sheffield DocFest in June. Here, she tells the story of a forgotten corner of the city's queer past.
nowthenmagazine.com
August 18, 2026 at 7:31 AM
In 1979, a woman named Martine Rose bought a run-down terraced house in Walkley, #Sheffield. It had no electricity or running water. For the next two and a half decades, that ordinary terrace was one of the first dedicated safe spaces for trans people anywhere in the UK.
✍️ Naomi Abel-Hirsch
#Trans
✍️ Naomi Abel-Hirsch
#Trans
COLORS OF WHITE ROCK 🎥, about a long-haul Mongolian coal trucker who happens to be a woman, is a very metal documentary, not least for the glimpse it provides of a world where health & safety just doesn't exist movieswetextedabout.com/colors-of-wh...
'Colors of White Rock' is a Riveting Experience (Sheffield DocFest 2026 Film Review)
We all know China is an industrial superpower, but we (especially in the west) don’t devote much time wondering how China has become an industrial superpower. Well, part of the answer is that it buys ...
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August 16, 2026 at 3:24 PM
COLORS OF WHITE ROCK 🎥, about a long-haul Mongolian coal trucker who happens to be a woman, is a very metal documentary, not least for the glimpse it provides of a world where health & safety just doesn't exist movieswetextedabout.com/colors-of-wh...
🎥IFI Documentary Festival returns!
🍿Join us from 23-27 Sept for a celebration of Irish and international documentary filmmaking that goes behind the headlines, champions bold new voices, and honours the trailblazing works of pioneering directors.
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🍿Join us from 23-27 Sept for a celebration of Irish and international documentary filmmaking that goes behind the headlines, champions bold new voices, and honours the trailblazing works of pioneering directors.
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August 13, 2026 at 1:01 PM
🎥IFI Documentary Festival returns!
🍿Join us from 23-27 Sept for a celebration of Irish and international documentary filmmaking that goes behind the headlines, champions bold new voices, and honours the trailblazing works of pioneering directors.
🎟️Book Now | Link In Bio | ifi.ie/docfest
🍿Join us from 23-27 Sept for a celebration of Irish and international documentary filmmaking that goes behind the headlines, champions bold new voices, and honours the trailblazing works of pioneering directors.
🎟️Book Now | Link In Bio | ifi.ie/docfest
‘Sucia’, el documental español de menos de 120.000 euros al que se le han abierto las puertas de los Oscar
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‘Sucia’, el documental español de menos de 120.000 euros al que se le han abierto las puertas de los Oscar
Un largometraje que narra la agresión sexual que sufrió la actriz Bàrbara Mestanza llega al Atlántida Mallorca Film Festival tras ganar un premio en el Sheffield DocFest, lo que lo convierte en elegib...
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August 13, 2026 at 10:26 AM
‘Sucia’, el documental español de menos de 120.000 euros al que se le han abierto las puertas de los Oscar
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