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Sheffield DocFest · 2026

Sheffield DocFest 2026

Rebellions

Programme

9 films

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Cantona

Documentary about the footballer.

(Year: 2026; Director: David Tryhorn, Ben Nicholas)

UK premiere

The Cord (Le Cordon)

As Venezuela's healthcare system crumbles, Carolina navigates the streets of Maracaibo with sheer will, wit and community to bring new life safely into the world.

(Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Nolwenn Hervé)

UK premiere

Dear Fátima (Querida Fátima)

A decade after the murder of her daughter Fátima at the age of 12, the victim of a brutal femicide, Lorena Gutiérrez takes a stand outside the National Palace to demand a meeting with Mexico’s first woman President.

(Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lorena Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Reyes, Dawn Valadez, Su Kim , Jesús "Don Chucho" Quintana)

International premiere

Landscapes Of Memory

An American filmmaker travels to Berlin to confront her family's Holocaust history, only to be detained at a pro-Palestinian demonstration and charged with antisemitism.

(Country: US, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Leah Galant)

International premiere

The Long Cuban Night (Cuba y la Noche)

Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.

(Country: Spain, Colombia, Cuba; Year: 2026; Director: Sergio Fernandez Borras)

European premiere

Silenced

After #MeToo broke the cultural silence on gender violence, international human rights lawyer Jennifer Robinson fights against the weaponization of defamation laws to silence survivors.

(Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Selina Miles)

UK premiere

Steal This Story, Please!

Independent US journalist Amy Goodman has spent three decades holding the powerful to account, reporting from conflict zones and the Democracy Now! newsroom. This is her story.

(Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin; Stars: Amy Goodman)

UK premiere

Takkuuk

Indigenous artists in the Arctic reckon with culture, colonialism and a rapidly changing world.

(Year: 2026; Director: Zak Norman, Charlie Miller)

UK premiere

We, The Hated

An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.

(Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Rich Felgate)

World premiere