Savage Mountain + Conversation Join us for this special screening of this film, followed by a conversation with the director, Evan Sigstad and protagonist Kristin Harila. Film Programme Film
School Screening + Career Panel: Shop Dada: The Cornershop That Built Us Join us for our educational screening of Shop Dada: The Cornershop That Built Us accompanied by a careers panel. Film Programme Film
School Screening + Career Panel: Wild East Join us for our educational screening of Wild East accompanied by a careers panel. Film Programme Film
School Screening + Careers Panel: Maybe Tomorrow Join us for our educational screening of Maybe Tomorrow accompanied by a careers panel. Film Programme Film
Sentient A journey behind the locked doors of animal research laboratories, where scientists confront a growing unease with the experiments they carry out on monkeys. Tony Jones 2026 Film Programme Film
Sheffield DocFest Audience Award Winner The award decided by you, our amazing audiences. Each feature film premiering at Sheffield DocFest is eligible for this award, and every festival-goer is eligible to vote. Find out which film is this year's audience favourite! This is your chance to watch this year's winner. Film Programme Film
Sheffield of Stories Part of The Alternate Realities Exhibition, free to enter and hosted at Yorkshire Artspace. By Adam Clarke, in partnership with The National Videogame Museum. Adam Clarke 2026 Alternate Realities Programme Installation
Shop Dada - The Cornershop That Built Us A filmmaker revisits his grandfather’s corner shop to uncover migration, racism and sacrifice behind a British South Asian stereotype. Darshan Gajjar 2026 Film Programme Film
Shorts: Acts of Witness Three filmmakers confront systems of violence and erasure, revealing how images, resistance and truth-telling become tools for survival, exposure and defiance. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Family Business 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. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Italian Archives Reimagined 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. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: On Human & Animals 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. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Portraits of Absence Three intimate journeys through grief and remembrance where art, rituals and hope become a way of holding those still missing close. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Safe Spaces Three stories of queer resilience trace the search for safety in homes, music and asylum centers, where identity, community and survival collide. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: States of Becoming 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. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Stories of Displacement From frontlines to exile, two Syrian stories of friendship and loss reveal the quiet endurance of memory, resistance and the search for home. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
Shorts: Thresholds of Faith 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. Film Programme Shorts Film Programme
The Shrimp Condition Five young men live in a community on the outskirts of Milan, sent here by courts and social services. None of them know what comes next. Davide Piras, Giammarco Boscariol 2026 Film Programme Film
Silenced Human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights the weaponisation of defamation laws used to silence survivors of sexual violence around the world. Selina Miles 2026 Film Programme Film
Sir David Attenborough at 100: A Living Legacy 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. Talks Programme Talk
SKYCLIMBER - Scaling The Eiffel Tower A climber attempts to scale the Eiffel Tower in a documentary that is equal parts high-altitude adventure and intimate personal portrait. Nick Hardie 2026 Film Programme Film
Stalin Boys Four middle school boys in a tiny Texas border town channel an unlikely obsession with Joseph Stalin into a history fair play about tyranny. Bianca Giaever, Ora DeKornfeld 2026 Film Programme Film
Steal This Story, Please! Through decades of archive footage, this compelling portrait follows investigative journalist Amy Goodman as she takes on soldiers, politicians and corporate media in pursuit of truth. Tia Lessin, Carl Deal 2025 Film Programme Film
The Story of Documentary Film: 1960s Mark Cousins continues his sweeping history of documentary with the 1960s, a decade of political awakening, portable cameras and filmmakers turning dissent into an art form. Mark Cousins 2026 Film Programme Film
The Story of Documentary Film: 1970s Mark Cousins continues his sweeping history of documentary with the 1970s, a decade of environmental reckoning, feminist uprising and filmmakers speaking truth to power. Mark Cousins 2026 Film Programme Film