Our Year-Round Screening & Events programme is dedicated to championing the work of documentary filmmakers, and bringing documentary cinema to audiences, all year-round. See our schedule of upcoming events.
Upcoming Year-Round Screenings
How To Feed a Dictator (2026)
This film tells the story of five brutal regimes, from Iraq to North Korea, through the eyes of the personal chefs who served them.
Through recipes, rituals and remembrance, a portrait emerges of power, manipulation and the quiet ways ordinary people become entangled in extraordinary violence. Loyalty, denial, fear, even thrill, each chef carries their experience differently, yet together they reveal how dictatorship gets under the skin of everyone it touches.
How to Feed a Dictator is darkly funny, deeply human and impossible to shake, proof that the most revealing place to understand a regime is not the war room but the kitchen.
Monday 27th July, 18:20 - Bertha DocHouse, London (followed by a Q&A with director Andrew Neel)
Monday 3rd August, 18:00 - Showroom Cinema, Sheffield
Steal This Story, Please! (2025)
Undeterred by armed soldiers, evasive politicians and riot police, journalist Amy Goodman has reported some of the most consequential stories of our time.
Steal This Story, Please! is a gripping portrait of the trailblazer whose unwavering commitment to truth-telling spans three decades of turbulent history.
From the frontlines of global conflicts to the organized chaos of her daily news show Democracy Now!, Goodman broadcasts stories and voices routinely silenced by commercial media.
Urgent, provocative and unexpectedly funny, Steal This Story, Please! is both a call to action and a celebration of resistance, posing the question: what happens to democracy when the press surrenders to power?
Wednesday 12 August, 18:20 - Bertha DocHouse, London (followed by a Q&A with Amy Goodman and co-directors Carl Deal and Tia Lessin)
Agent of Happiness (2024)
Sheffield Libraries and Sheffield DocFest have teamed up to present a free community screening of Sheffield DocFest 2024 title Agent of Happiness, in celebration of South Asian Heritage Month.
A happiness surveyor in the Kingdom of Bhutan grapples with his own contentment in this light-hearted yet fascinating probe into how happiness can be measured.
Employed by the Bhutanese government, Amber Gurung travels across mountainous regions to gather data from citizens to measure the country’s gross national happiness. The 148 questions featured in the survey are straightforward, but they draw out the participants’ personal stories, along with a range of emotions that the survey cannot possibly encapsulate.
Arun Bhattarai and Dorottya Zurbó’s film explores larger critical issues raised by this questionnaire and assesses whether it is even possible to define a nation’s happiness, both in the home and as a citizen. They also offer a tender portrait of Amber’s life as a caretaker of his ageing mother, his longing for a romantic partner and his insecurities due to a lack of citizenship.
Wednesday 12 August, 18:00 - Sheffield Central Library, Sheffield
