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: 12 Short Films Across the UK
Our Filmmaker Challenge returns for 2026, expanding to 12 filmmakers across three UK regions, creating bold short documentaries on the fly under the guidance of their mentors. Principal supporter Prime Video Pathways.
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Mini Doc: Something I Want You To Know Showcase
Join us for a showcase at Sheffield DocFest, celebrating films made by filmmakers with learning disabilities and/or autism as part of the ArtWorks Together partnership Mini Doc: Something I Want You To Know.
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Rose's House
The story of Martine Rose, who in 1979 bought a rundown terraced house in Sheffield and transformed it into one of Britain's first dedicated safe spaces for trans people.
  • Naomi Abel-Hirsch
  • 2026
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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
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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
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Wild East
A Romanian environmentalist risks everything to expose IKEA's destruction of ancient forest, in an urgent, gripping portrait of one person's fight against powerful corporate interests
  • Maia Wikler
  • 2026
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