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Sheffield DocFest 2026

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Cantona (Year: 2026; Director: David Tryhorn, Ben Nicholas)
Documentary about the footballer.
UK premiere
The Cord (Le Cordon) (Country: France; Year: 2026; Director: Nolwenn Hervé)
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.
UK premiere
Dear Fátima (Querida Fátima) (Country: Mexico, US; Year: 2026; Director: Lorena Gutiérrez, Rodrigo Reyes, Dawn Valadez, Su Kim , Jesús “Don Chucho” Quintana)
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.
International premiere
Landscapes Of Memory (Country: US, Germany; Year: 2026; Director: Leah Galant)
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.
International premiere
The Long Cuban Night (Cuba y la Noche) (Country: Spain, Colombia, Cuba; Year: 2026; Director: Sergio Fernandez Borras)
Captured entirely on phone footage, a group of Cuban artists risk everything to document their uprising against a government trying to silence them.
European premiere
Silenced (Country: US; Year: 2026; Director: Selina Miles)
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.
UK premiere
Steal This Story, Please! (Country: US; Year: 2025; Director: Carl Deal, Tia Lessin; Stars: Amy Goodman)
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.
UK premiere
Takkuuk (Year: 2026; Director: Zak Norman, Charlie Miller)
Indigenous artists in the Arctic reckon with culture, colonialism and a rapidly changing world.
UK premiere
We, The Hated (Country: UK; Year: 2026; Director: Rich Felgate)
An intimate portrait of Just Stop Oil protestors asks what it really costs to take a stand in a supposedly democratic society.
World premiere
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